Overview
Overview
Midwives are an essential part of professional healthcare, working in settings such as healthcare clinics, hospitals, community practices, birthing centres and home settings.
In this course, you will gain the comprehensive knowledge and skills required to practise midwifery.
Your studies will include topics across biological, physical, psychological and social sciences.
You’ll also complete supervised clinical placements in maternity units and follow individual women through their childbirth journey through the ‘continuity of care experience’ (CCE) approach.
Upon graduating, you’ll be eligible to apply for registration as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Following your registration, you’ll be qualified to work in metropolitan and rural healthcare settings such as antenatal clinics (including specialty clinics for adolescent, high-risk and diabetic women), labour and birth suites, postnatal wards, special-care nurseries, breastfeeding clinics, midwifery group practice and birth centres.
This course is suitable for school leavers and for mature-age students. The current national shortage of midwives means you can expect excellent career opportunities across Australia.
This can be a physically and mentally challenging course. Please familiarise yourself with the inherent requirements before applying.
What jobs can the Midwifery course lead to?
Careers
- Midwife
- Antenatal consultant
- Birthing consultant
- Postnatal consultant
Industries
- Healthcare
- Government and non-profit organisations
What you'll learn
- demonstrate culturally safe, values-led care for all women and babies through the development of personal and professional skills for cultural competence
- apply midwifery knowledge and skills within dynamic and complex midwifery contexts
- discuss the importance of skilled professional midwifery care for women and babies in an international context
- analyse scientific literature and health standards; synthesise and integrate into woman centred-care; engage with health and scientific information when seeking, evaluating and using data related to midwifery care and clinical decision-making
- demonstrate evidence-based decisions on therapeutic interventions by utilising current technology to inform midwifery practice for the delivery of safe and effective care
- communicate effectively, to meet the woman’s needs, establish collegial relationships with interprofessional teams and promote midwifery within the community in the broader contexts of primary healthcare and public health policy
- demonstrate critical reflection and the ability to enhance the development of self and others; demonstrate leadership skills
- examine current midwifery health legislation; work in an autonomous accountability framework within the scope of ethical and legal midwifery practice as a member of interprofessional teams
- identify opportunities for lifelong learning and enhance personal knowledge and skills to further contribute to the midwifery profession
