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Please refer to your Course outline in the LearnOnline site for assessment instructions.
You are required to reference your program textbook(s) and a minimum of four (4) additional peer reviewed journal articles published from 2015. You may include articles before this date if they are significant and relevant to your discussion but you must have a minimum of 5 references (including text) dated after 2015.
Your paper must include:
1. An introduction demonstrating your understanding of the topic and your plan
for the essay.
2. A clear response to the essay question with reference to up-to-date and
relevant research as well as professional codes and guidelines.
3. A concise conclusion that summarises the main points of your essay and returns
the reader to the view, or position you have taken.
4. Please provide a reference list presented in UniSA Harvard Referencing System
format.
5. Instructions on how to attach a feedback form are found via the Assessment
link on the course homepage.
Refer to the Course Outline for comprehensive information.
The Student Engagement Unit's Academic Skills website can help with planning your assignment and making sense of the assignment and instruction words.
Topic 1:
This essay requires you to provide evidence of a clear understanding of the four ethical principles, midwifery philosophy and woman centred care.
What is the task word (or words)?
What are the content words? (You can find these by taking the task word & adding the question “What?”)
What are the limits you need to remember?
Topic 2:
Strategic Directions for Australian Maternity Services (COAG 2019) identified four values which underpin twelve principles for woman centred maternity care in Australia.
Principle 1.1 states "women receive individualised information and appropriate care during the perinatal period that is based on current, high quality evidence."
Provide an overview of evidence based practice (EBP) in maternity care and discuss at least three challenges and three benefits of EBP in the context of the philosophy of woman centred care.
This essay requires you to provide evidence of a sound understanding of evidence based practice and woman centred care, and your ability to discern how evidence based practice may interact with providing woman centred care.
What is Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in maternity care
What are the content words? (You can find these by taking the task word & adding the question “What?”)
What is the context you need to remember?
Start by identifying the concepts (main ideas) from your assignment topic prior to searching. Then consider alternative words for each.
Break down the question
As your topic might have multiple questions, you should perform a search for each sub-question. Use the common concepts plus one or more question-specific concepts.
For the example of 'What are the Prenatal care models for women who live in a rural area?' identify the concepts common to the main question.
Key concepts |
Alternative concepts |
prenatal care |
antenatal care, midwifery care |
care models |
models of care |
rural area |
remote, outer regional |
Now use AND and OR to combine your keywords
Line 1 | prenatal care OR antenatal care OR midwifery care |
Connector | AND |
Line 2 |
care models OR models of care |
Connector | AND |
Line 3 | rural area OR remote OR outer regional |
Finally, add truncation and phrase symbols This will help you save time and get relevant results.
For example
With truncation/phrases
Line 1 | "prenatal care" OR "antenatal care" OR "midwi* care" |
Connector | AND |
Line 2 |
"care model*" OR "model* of care" |
Connector | AND |
Line 3 | "rural area*" OR remote* OR "outer regional*" |
The Library Collection can be a useful starting point in locating quality information.
Use the Library Collection to find:
Emcare
Searching in Emcare is different to searching in the Library Catalogue.
1. Type your first concept and alternative words into the search box.
2. Untick the box labeled Map to Subject Heading.
3. Select Search.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for your next concepts.
5. Tick the boxes next to each of your concept lines.
6. Select Combine with AND.
7. Scroll down to see your results.
More useful databases:
You need to use credible references for this Assessment.
Credible references are articles from peer reviewed journals that are of high quality and can be used to support arguments that you are presenting. Articles in peer reviewed journals must go through an evaluation process with experts in the field before being published. The term refereed is also used.
The terms scholarly and academic are also sometimes used to indicate quality journals.
Remember the assignment instructions:
Review the above video Essays - Synthesizing ideas by EMTeaching Videos (CC - BY 4.0 licence). This video will give you some ideas on how to synthesize ideas in your essay.
View the Student Engagement Unit's Academic Skills website for help writing your assignment, or to make an appointment with SEU staff.
You must appropriately cite (‘acknowledge’) all references used in your assignment to avoid plagiarism.
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