This course introduces students to the culture of childbirth in New Zealand and community support for childbearing women and families. By acting as a birth companion to women over the academic year, the student will learn to recognise the individual realities of the experience of childbirth for women and their families, will develop skills in forming culturally safe relationships with women and families, and will have the opportunity to utilise theories of human development.

This course has been designed to provide students with a basic understanding of nutrition as it relates to pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. 

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This course introduces midwifery students to concepts and theory upon which midwifery practice is based, focussing on partnership and the historical and social contexts of current midwifery practice in New Zealand.

The course also introduces students to the principles of identifying, searching and accessing information, the main approaches to research and begins exploring skills needed to critique research.

Welcome to Bioscience Foundations. This course will explore what the human body is made of and how the human body functions to maintain homeostasis.