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Ms Melanie Welfare

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 0415603559
Mobile: 0415 603 559
Email: m.welfare@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO21.434  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5009-8769

Melanie is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She lectures in the dual degree Bachelor of Science Nursing and Bachelor of Science Midwifery. She applies a student-centered research-based approach to her teaching that ensure learners meet the requirements for registration.

Current Teaching

  • MIT4101 Applied pathophysiology and pharmacology for midwifery
  • MIP4209 Continuing midwifery practice competence
  • MIT4102 Care of Women and babies with complex needs
  • MIP4210 Midwifery care across the spectrum

Background

Melanie has recently to moved Perth from New Zealand where she was the Associate Head of Midwifery at Ara Te Pukenga. She has also been an educator for the New Zealand College of Midwives; teaching around New Zealand and for the local District Health Board.

Professional Associations

  • Australian College of Midwives
  • Registration with ANMAC
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
  • Registration with Midwifery Council New Zealand
  • Reviewer for ‘The Journal’ magazine
  • Reviewer for ‘Woman and Birth’
  • Competency reviewer for New Zealand College of Midwives
  • APEC member

Awards and Recognition

  • 2022 Teaching award for innovation in teaching
  • Grant recipient from Health Workforce New Zealand 2021 to present
  • Chapter Author in Midwifery textbooks

Research Areas and Interests

  • The use of Virtual Reality in midwifery education
  • Inter-professional education
  • Professional and personal sustainability in midwifery
  • Midwives who transition to work settings

Qualifications

  • Master of Health Care, New Zealand, 2019.
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Midwifery Practice with Merit, New Zealand, 2010.
  • Diploma of Higer Education in Midwifery, England, 1999.
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