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The University of Notre Dame Australia

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Graduate Diploma of Midwifery

  • Graduate Diploma

The Graduate Diploma of Midwifery is an 18-month full-time postgraduate program designed for registered nurses aiming to become midwives. It emphasizes woman-centred care, critical thinking, and practical experience in diverse midwifery settings, combining online learning with on-campus study blocks.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1.5 - 5 semesters full-time
Course Code
4114, 078806F
Study Mode
In person, Online
Intake Months
Jan

About this course

Overview

Are you a registered nurse with a desire to become a midwife? The University of Notre Dame Australia's 18-month full-time postgraduate qualification will give you the confidence to embark on a career where woman-centred care is a priority. Our Graduate Diploma of Midwifery includes a significant proportion of practical hands-on experience and contemporary best practices in a variety of midwifery settings. Get in contact today to pursue this rewarding career.

Why study this degree?

If woman-centred care and delivering new life is your passion the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery is the qualification for you. This unique program follows the philosophy of 'woman-centred' midwifery practice and will enable you to develop a high level of critical thinking, technical competence, and interdisciplinary teamwork skills.

You will experience a variety of placements including public and private settings, from large teaching hospitals to small healthcare centres. This quality professional practice experience will give you the confidence and competence to adapt quickly to the midwifery workplace.

This is a blended-learning program which includes immersive online learning experiences in combination with intensive on-campus study blocks each semester enabling midwifery students to undertake this program whether located in metropolitan or regional / remote locations.

Your assessments are based on written assignments, tutorial presentations, case studies, various projects and examinations and professional practice assessments at the University and healthcare setting level.

On graduation, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will register you as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

The following entry requirements apply to this program:

  • A bachelor degree in nursing or the equivalent and registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
  • Registered nurses who do not have a level 7 AQF qualification in nursing may be admitted with an alternative mode of entry assessment and recent clinical nursing experience.

Study locations

Sydney

Fremantle

Broome

Online

What you will learn

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery graduates will be able to:

  1. Meet the National Competency Standards for the Midwife and gain registration as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
  2. Critically review emerging local, national, and global maternity care priorities, and apply midwifery evidence-based knowledge to provide holistic and woman centred care across the childbirth continuum, to pregnant and childbearing women and their families, with a focus of continually improving the quality and delivery of care
  3. Reflect on knowledge and belief to share practice and foster self-regulated behaviours to implement the concept of life-long learning, which will assist in the professional growth and development of self and others
  4. Practice as competent professionals and industry ready graduates who can critically appraise and problem solve in practical and creative ways enabling them to practice in diverse midwifery settings
  5. Integrate knowledge, humanistic values, clinical skills, and reflective thinking to an advanced level of critical analysis to provide safe, culturally congruent, equitable, high quality midwifery care for women, babies, families, and communities
  6. Demonstrate ethical responsibility by actively and continually participating in the development of the midwifery profession at the individual, national and global level
  7. Provide safe, culturally congruent, equitable and just midwifery care by practicing and promoting a culture of reflective and reflexive midwifery care to the individual woman, her supporters, and other members of the healthcare team.

Career pathways

Career opportunities

The Graduate Diploma of Midwifery will enable you to register as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Course structure

Program summarySemester One
  • MIDW5021 Midwifery Foundations (25 CP)
  • MIDW5022 Beginning Midwifery Practice (50 CP)
  • MIDW5023 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Women & Communities (25 CP)
Semester Two
  • MIDW5024 Midwifery Partnerships (25 CP)
  • MIDW5025 Complex Midwifery Practice (50 CP)
Semester Three
  • MIDW5026 Midwifery Clinical Reasoning (25 CP)
  • MIDW5027 Advancing Midwifery Practice (50 CP)

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Nursing courses at The University of Notre Dame Australia.
85.8%
Overall satisfaction
80%
Skill scale
78.3%
Teaching scale
90.2%
Employed full-time
$99.3k
Average salary
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