Graduate Diploma of Midwifery CQ48
Duration: 1 year full-time, 1.5 years part-time
Mode & Location: external
Fees: HECS
Courses/Units of Credit: 6 courses/48 units of credit
Faculty: Arts, Health & Sciences
Entry: direct
Accreditation: Graduates are accredited by the Queensland Nursing
Council (QNC) for endorsement to practice as a midwife.
Practicum/Work Placement: 1032 hours of clinical practice
Residential School: A residential school is conducted at the commencement
of Midwifery Practice A and Midwifery Practice B.
Exit Awards: Graduate Certificate (Refresher) in Midwifery (post endorsement
students only)
Contact: Program Advisor on 07 4930 9862 or email k.rodda@cqu.edu.au
Program Overview
The aim of this program is to prepare a midwife with the ability
to provide woman centred care through demonstration of competent
practice consistent with the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated (ACMI)
competencies and code of ethics.
Entry
All applicants must be registered nurses, and their eligibility
for the program will be assessed on a case by case basis.
Program Structure
Pre-endorsement students (6 courses)
1032 hours of clinical practice is conducted in a variety of
approved clinical areas including hospitals and community settings.
Clinical practice will be arranged at approved hospitals.
Students must complete:
Post-endorsement students (6 courses)
Students must complete:
Program Objectives
On completion of this program the beginning practitioner will
be able to:
- discuss the historical
and contemporary issues in health care and women's health
which affect midwifery and its practice;
- recognise and enact the roles and responsibilities of
midwife in the provision of health care;
- assess a woman’s needs, facilitate the process
of decision making for a woman and her family and respect their
decisions regarding childbirth;
- utilise childbirth, health care education and counselling
practices to support women, families and community groups;
- recognise abnormalities as they arise and work with
health care professionals, consulting and referring as necessary
when a woman's or neonate’s need for care exceeds
the competencies of the midwife;
- undertake all aspects preconception, pregnancy, labour,
birth and postpartum care for women with normal pregnancies;
- provide safe and competent midwifer care directed by
evidence-based practice;
- provide care and support to women during the birthing
process by assuming the professional role of the midwife;
- recognise the responsibility and accountability for their
ongoing professional development;
- practise midwifery within the current legislation, common
law duties and their own scope of competence.