Midwifery and Nursing Professional Practice Experience

The assessment tasks link the learning outcomes and graduate capabilities. Each piece of assessment for the unit relates to students applying theoretical knowledge and skills to the woman and her baby’s care across pregnancy, labour and birth and post-birth care and is documented in the Practice Portfolio. Professional midwifery appraisals scaffold experiential learning by midwife facilitators providing formative and summative feedback and supported learning to achieve interim and final learning objectives as stated at the commencement of practice placement by each individual student. The Practice Portfolio also provides documentary evidence of completion of the mandatory minimum practice requirements as students progress through the course. The Continuity of Care report details evidence-based reflective learning of a student’s individual learning of childbearing from a woman’s experience which is critical to locating beginning practice in a philosophy of woman-centred care. All assessments are undertaken within the scheduled timing of the placement. The ANSAT also details interim and summative feedback from registered nurse preceptors for the nursing placement being undertaken.