midwife
Midwives assist women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, conduct births and provide care for the new-born. They advise on health, preventive measures, preparation for parenthood, detection of complications in mother and child, accessing of medical care, promoting normal birth and carrying out emergency measures.
Also called: foetal nurse, head of midwifery services, intensive care neonatal nurse, obstetric nurse, community midwife, pre-natal nurse, maternity nurse, childbirth assistant
- 73
- essential skills
- 15
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
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- physiotherapist25 skills in common
- specialist pharmacist25 skills in common
Essential skills
73- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on childbirth
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- anaesthetics
- analgesics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- carry out treatment prescribed by doctors
- childbirth
- collect biological samples from patients
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct spontaneous child deliveries
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- dietetics
- educate on the prevention of illness
- embryology
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- epidemiology
- examine the new-born infant
- female reproductive system pathology
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- health education
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- lactation
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor pregnancy
- neonatology
- obstetric ultrasonography
- pathology
- pharmacology
- postpartum legal protection
- postpartum period
- pregnancy
- preparation for child delivery
- preparation for parenthood
- prescribe medication
- promote inclusion
- provide care for the mother during labour
- provide education on family life
- provide health education
- provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality
- provide postnatal care
- provide pre-natal care
- provide pregnancy termination care
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- radiological procedures
- relaxation techniques
- respond to changing situations in health care
- resuscitation
- sex education
- support informed consent
- take emergency measures in pregnancy
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional skills
15- address side effects of menopause
- apply acupuncture
- company policies
- conduct research on reproductive medicine
- homeopathy
- pedagogy
- perform antepartum fetal monitoring
- phytotherapy
- sociology
- surgery
- use different communication channels
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use obstetric sonography
- yoga
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