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Course and Subject Handbook 2024

Course and Subject Handbook 2024 Courses Undergraduate Courses Bachelor of Nursing Science – Bachelor of Midwifery

Bachelor of Nursing Science – Bachelor of Midwifery

Handbook year

Information valid for students commencing in 2024

Course code

103210

Course type

Bachelor Degree (AQF Level 7)

Professional Accreditation Status

 This course is accredited by the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC). Students enrolled in this degree will be registered with the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) for the duration of their program of study or until they are no longer enrolled. Graduates will be eligible to apply for professional registration with the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Owner

Academy

College

Healthcare Sciences

Award Requirements

Admission Requirements

Course pre-requisites

English (Units 3/4,C)

Recommended: Biology, Chemistry and one of General Maths, Mathematical Methods, or Specialists Maths (Units 3/4,C)

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) require that all applicants demonstrate their English language proficiency. Please refer to this website for more information: .

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 3c  – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requires all applicants seeking initial admission to the Nursing and Midwifery Register upon graduation from their nursing course, to demonstrate the necessary English language skills. See their website at:

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Clinical placement/professional practice:

This course includes extensive professional or clinical placements. Students may be required to undertake clinical placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements).

To successfully complete the Bachelor of Nursing Science –Bachelor of Midwifery degree students are required to recruit pregnant women who consent to the student attending and observing aspects of their care provision in a continuity of care model. Continuity of care experiences are additional to planned professional or clinical placements. Aspects of continuity of care experiences are likely to occur outside business hours. Further information about placements can be found at: Coursework Enrolment Procedure.

Students who have returned to study where the duration between their previous clinical placement and their pending clinical placement exceeds 12 months, may need to complete the Clinical Reconnect program.

Additional selection requirements

Information published by JCU or otherwise made available to students when applying, may specify additional criteria to be considered in ranking applicants in order of merit if the number of applications exceeds a quota or other limit on the places made available for the course.  Information provided by applicants during the application process and any other information obtained by JCU in the application process may be used by JCU to rank applicants in order of merit by reference to those additional criteria.

Post admission Requirements

This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, a Suitability to Work with Children Card, a federal police check and/or other conditions that students must comply with. Students must complete all professional experience placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of these requirements in order to stay admitted in the course.

You will find your course requirements here: /professional-experience-placement/preparation-checklists

Academic Requirements for Course Completion

Credit points

96 credit points as per course structure

Additional completion requirements

Graduates must meet the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australian (NMBA) (2016) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice and the NMBA (2018) Midwife Standards for Practice to be eligible for registration with the NMBA.

NMBA requirements for fitness to practice, police checks and minimum English language proficiency must also be met. These standards may be found at:

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, the graduate will be able to:

Nursing

  1. Employ critical thinking and the best available evidence in making decisions that guide safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred, evidence-based and cultural safety frameworks
  2. Establish and maintain effective therapeutic and professional relationships and advocate for others in a context of healthcare and based on mutual trust, respect and collegial partnerships
  3. Critically appraise own nursing practice to ensure they are safe, capable practitioners, who conduct ongoing self-management and respond to concerns about other health professionals’ capability for practice
  4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for their professional development and contribute to the development of others, including the provision of information and education that enable people to make decisions and take action in relation to their health
  5. Conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments, including the analysis of information, data and outcomes as the basis for practice
  6. Collaboratively plan, administer, document and effectively communicate quality nursing practice based on the appraisal of comprehensive, relevant information and evidence
  7. Administer, or as appropriate delegate, quality and ethical goal-directed care based on synthesis of comprehensive and systematic assessment data, and the best available evidence, to achieve planned and agreed outcomes
  8. Critically evaluate practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revise practice accordingly

Midwifery

  1. Articulate the centrality of the relationship of women to the practice of midwifery, that is inclusive of the diverse social, cultural and spiritual values and beliefs unique to each individual, and that upholds her right to autonomy
  2. Retrieve, critically evaluate and apply evidence in support of succinct, sequential and appropriate midwifery practice
  3. Practise responsibly and with accountability, based on knowledge of the Australian health care system and in accordance with relevant policies legislation, ethical, cultural safety and regulatory frameworks with particular emphasis on their role as advocate for women and their babies and the impact of power relationships on midwifery care
  4. Translate, interpret and extrapolate knowledge of midwifery practice to influence safe and effective collaborative woman-centred health outcomes at all levels
  5. Apply cognitive, technical and creative skills within a clearly defined and accepted scope of midwifery practice, ensuring referral as appropriate
  6. Demonstrate comprehensive clinical reasoning, analysis and synthesis of therapeutic interventions, informed by physiological and pathophysiology principles, in a variety of contexts
  7. Communicate effectively with women, their families, communities and members of the health care system to provide holistic woman-centred care in a partnership model
  8. Employ strategies of critical analysis, evaluation and reflection as a framework for practice and continuing professional development of the self, others and the discipline of midwifery
  9. Practise midwifery using a primary health care philosophy, addressing barriers to equity and access to health care facing disadvantaged women, families and communities with particular reference to the unique needs of those in tropical, rural, remote and/or Indigenous Australian contexts.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University's learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please visit: Bachelor of Nursing Science - Bachelor of Midwifery.

Reasonable adjustments

All JCU students have the opportunity to demonstrate, with reasonable adjustments where applicable, the inherent requirements for their course. For more information please visit: Student Disability Policy and Procedure.

Course Structure

CORE SUBJECTS

Level 1

Teaching Period 1

BM1011:03 Physiological Systems and Processes 1

HS1111:03 Communication for Nursing and Midwifery

NS1771:03 Introduction to the Professions

NS1881:03 Nursing Practice 1

Teaching Period 2

BM1022:03 Physiological Systems and Processes 2

NS1003:03 Introduction to Midwifery Practice

NS1882:03 Nursing Practice 2

NS1015:03 Law and Ethics for Nursing and Midwifery

Level 2

Teaching Period 1

NS2277:03 Midwifery Practice For Normal Labour, Birth and the Postnatal Period

NS2771:03 The Professional Role

NS2881:06 Nursing Practice 3

Teaching Period 2

NS2003:03 Promoting Health Across the Pregnancy, Birth and Postnatal Continuum

NS2555:03 Digital Health Capabilities for Nursing & Midwifery

NS2882:06 Nursing Practice 4

Level 3

Teaching Period 1

NS3228:03 Midwifery Practice and Complex Care

NS2363:03 Mental Health for Nursing and Midwifery

NS3881:06 Nursing Practice 5

Teaching Period 2

NS1555:03 Culturally Safe Healthcare for Australia’s First Peoples

NS3229:03 Newborn Challenges and Midwifery Care

NS3991:06 Applied Midwifery Practice and Complex Care

Level 4

Teaching Period 1

NS3771:03 Consolidating Practice

NS4993:09 Midwifery Capstone

Teaching Period 2

NS3882:09 Nursing Practice 6

NS4772:03 Transition to Practice (Midwifery)

Location

COURSE AVAILABLE AT

NOTES

JCU Townsville

 

Candidature

Expected time to complete

4 years full-time or 5 years part-time.

Note: only Level 1 can be completed part-time. From Level 2 onwards, students must be enrolled full time.

Maximum time to complete

6 years

Maximum leave of absence

1 year

Progression

Course progression requisites

Nil

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Clinical placement/professional practice:

This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students will be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements).

To successfully complete the Bachelor of Nursing Science – Bachelor of Midwifery degree students are required to recruit pregnant women who consent to the student attending and observing aspects of their care provision in a continuity of care model. Continuity of care experiences are additional to planned professional or clinical placements. Aspects of continuity of care experiences are likely to occur outside business hours. Further information about placements can be found at: Coursework Enrolment Procedure.

Students who have returned to study where the duration between their previous clinical placement and their pending clinical placement exceeds 12 months, may need to complete the Clinical Reconnect program.

Special assessment requirements

At the discretion of the College Dean, students may be required to undertake a prescribed English language test to ensure that they have an acceptable level of English language proficiency, including at least at the level required to be admitted to the course, to safely participate in professional experience placements.  Refer to Review of a Student’s Suitability to Continue a Course Involving Placement policy.

Professional accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

Supplementary examinations are available, subject to current College and Division policies.

Credit

Eligibility

Students may apply for credit transfer for previous tertiary study in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure.

Maximum allowed

48 credit points

Currency

Credit will be granted only for studies completed in the 5 years prior to the commencement of this course.

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 11 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Other restrictions

Up to 48 credit points may be granted only to applicants who hold current registration as a registered nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

All other applicants may receive up to 30 credit points.

Students applying for credit for previous study completed in a Diploma of Nursing must also provide evidence of registration as an Enrolled Nurse (Division 2) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Up to 24 credit points may be awarded for this qualification.

Award Details

Award title

BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCE – BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY

Approved abbreviation

BNSc-BMid

Inclusion of majors on testamur

Not applicable – this course does not have majors

Exit with lesser award

Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies.

Students who have completed 48 credit points of their professional course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Associate Degree of Health Sciences.

Course articulation

First year students admitted to the Bachelor of Nursing Science who have achieved a GPA of 5.00 calculated across the 4 subjects in the first teaching period are eligible to apply to transfer to the Bachelor of Nursing Science – Bachelor of Midwifery to commence mid-year.

For more information, please see Variation to Study.

Special awards

Students may receive an Award of Recognition in accordance with the Recognition of Academic Excellence Procedure

Honours

Honours availability

Available as an additional 24 credit points of study - Bachelor of Nursing Science (Honours) [end-on]

Eligibility

Achievement of an overall grade point average of 5.0 (i.e. credit average) across the final three years of the bachelor degree; and current registration as a nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

Application for entry to the Honours program is by approval of the College Dean.