Bachelor of Midwifery

Through a partnership approach, midwives provide woman centred, evidence based care for women and babies throughout the childbearing journey in a variety of settings.

Midwives play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of women and their families by supporting the woman's childbearing choices and providing expertise around pregnancy, birth, postnatal and the newborn period.

Midwives collaborate with other health professionals to continue midwifery care in complex situations.

The Bachelor of Midwifery at CDU is aligned with the International Confederation of Midwives' definition of the midwife.

Students require a high level of motivation, determination and organisation to successfully negotiate study and clinical experience requirements with work and family commitments.

The online nature of the course requires students to be disciplined and committed in their study habits.

Students should consider whether their family life and work commitments will support their attendance at placement and time available for study.

Placement may occur during and outside of the semester and students may be required to travel away from home to complete up to 6 weeks of placement at their own expense.

Students need to be aware that:

placement is arranged by Charles Darwin University and dates are determined by the availability of places at the health service facility, therefore dates for placement may not be negotiable students are required to attend the arranged placement to progress in the course non-attendance at placement may only occur in extenuating circumstances.

Childcare and work commitments are not extenuating circumstances for the purpose of placement placements may include morning, evening, night duty, on-call and shifts on weekends and public holidays There are inherent requirements for midwifery.

Inherent requirements are the essential abilities, knowledge and skills to achieve course learning outcomes and to be able to safely practise as a midwife.

Midwifery requires a degree of physical strength and mobility, endurance, communication and cognitive abilities for safe practice.

For more detailed information see Inherent Requirements for Midwifery on the College of Nursing and Midwifery website.

Reporting obligations:

Under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, CDU is required to register midwifery students with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and to notify AHPRA if a student has or develops a health impairment that may place the public at substantial risk of harm.

Students have obligations under the National Law and are expected to understand their obligations prior to enrolling.

More information available at NMBA Student Registration.

Common Units(2 units) - 20cp

Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

CUC107

CUC100

Common Units

Core Units(21 units) - 210cp

Compulsory Core units totalling 210 credit points as detailed below.

MID101 Introduction to Midwifery Practice MID102 Fundamental Skills for Midwifery Practice SBI171 Anatomy and Physiology 1 SBI172 Anatomy and Physiology 2 SWK102 Communication Skills (recoded from SWK142B from 2016) HSC230 Cultural Safety in Healthcare (replaces HEA230 from 2018) HSC203 Indigenous Health Perspective MID201 Healthy Childbearing 1 MID202 Professional Midwifery Practice 1 MID203 Healthy Childbearing 2 MID204 Professional Midwifery Practice 2 MID205 Midwifery Evidence Informed Health Research HSC210 Health Sociology (replaces NUR210 from 2018) PSY202 Developmental Psychology (replaces NUR240 from 2017) MID301 Women's Health MID302 Healthy Childbearing 3 MID303 Professional Midwifery Practice 3 MID304 Midwifery in Global Perspective MID305 Healthy Childbearing 4 MID306 Professional Midwifery Practice 4 MID307 Specialist Neonatal Care

Specialist Elective(1 unit) - 10cp

Specialist Elective unit totalling 10 credit points as detailed below.

PSY209 Social-Cultural Psychology (replaces HSC201 Health Promotion from 2020) SWK317 Dynamics of Loss and Grief (replaces HSC205 Health Care Policy from 2020) HSC318 Remote Health

- 240cp

Total Credit Points

Admission requirements are met by one of the following: Successful completion of the Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training (or equivalent) and the awarding of an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) of at least 80*. Successful completion of a national qualification at Diploma level or higher. Successful completion of at least 0.5 year of full-time study (or equivalent) of a higher education degree/diploma with a GPA of 5.5 and above. Overseas secondary or tertiary qualifications considered equivalent to the above Australian qualifications. Attainment of a STAT Multiple Choice score of 173 (or a score of 168 if prior to May 2010). Successful completion of the Tertiary Enabling Program or the Preparation for Tertiary Success courses. * After any applicable adjustment factors have been applied.