Bachelor of Midwifery (Indigenous)
Bachelor's degree
In Brisbane (Australia)
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brisbane (Australia)
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
This midwifery course is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who want to become registered midwives.
As with the Bachelor of Midwifery, this course prepares Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to work as entry-level midwives in any maternity setting – focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their families.
Students will enrol in this midwifery course in an ‘away-from-base’ capacity. The ‘away-from-base’ mode enables students to live and work in their local community while studying and attending four residentials of one week each in Brisbane throughout the year. The students will also engage with a minimum of ten women to follow their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care journey called their Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE). This experience involves the student recruiting the woman in early pregnancy and attending appointments throughout. If possible, the student attends the labour and birth and follows the woman after discharge home up to six weeks following birth.
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About this course
The Bachelor of Midwifery (Indigenous) degree will teach you how to:
manage normal pregnancy and childbirth
provide effective postnatal, maternal and newborn care
provide safe and reliable care that meets the individual psychological, emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs of mothers
promote positive health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children in rural and remote locations.
Graduates can pursue a range of careers including: midwife, consultant midwife, special care nurseries, clinical specialist, pre-natal educator, researcher, family care and child health centre professional.
English (4, SA).
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Subjects
- Midwifery
- Indigenous health
- Culture
- Health and culture
- Biological science
- Science
- Biological
- Practice
- Wellbeing
- Health and Wellbeing
Course programme
- HLSC120 Indigenous health and culture
- BIOL121 Human biological science 1
- HLSC122 Evidence for practice
- MIDW127 Foundations in midwifery
- UNCC100 Self and community: exploring the anatomy of modern society
- HLSC111 The Person, health and wellbeing
- MIDW113 Midwifery care of the pregnant woman (Pre: HLSC122, MIDW127)
- MIDW100 Clinical midwifery practice 1 (Pre: BIOL121, MIDW127)
- MIDW246 Midwifery care of the postnatal woman and family (Pre: MIDW127)
- BIOL122 Human biological science 2 (Pre: BIOL121)
- MIDW216 Midwifery care of the birthing woman (Pre: MIDW100, MIDW113)
- MIDW200 Clinical midwifery practice 2 (Pre: MIDW100)
- HLSC220 Health care ethics
- MIDW215 Perinatal mental health (Pre: MIDW113, MIDW246, MIDW100 )
- MIDW217 Midwifery care of the woman with complex needs (Pre: BIOL122, MIDW200, MIDW216 )
- MIDW201 Clinical midwifery practice 3 (Pre: MIDW200, MIDW216)
- UNCC300 Justice and change in a global world (Pre: UNCC100)
- MIDW350 The profession of midwifery (Pre: MIDW217)
MIDW335 - MIDW335 Babies needing extra care (Pre: MIDW201, MIDW217)
- MIDW300 Clinical midwifery practice 4: caring for babies (Pre: MIDW201)
- MIDW353 The inquiring midwife (Pre: MIDW217)
- MIDW351 Global perspectives on midwifery (Pre: MIDW217)
- MIDW301 Clinical midwifery practice 5 (Pre: MIDW300)
Additional information
Brisbane
Semester 1 - February
Semester 2 - To be advised
Course costs - Average first year fee: $7035 Commonwealth Supported (indicative only; subject to passage of legislation)
Bachelor of Midwifery (Indigenous)