maternity support worker (EN)
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Maternity support workers work together in a team with midwives and health professionals within the occupational fields of nursing and midwifery. They assist midwives and women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, assist births and assist in providing care for the new-born.
Classification skills are not a measurement of your proficiency or future displaced hours.
Source aliases (EN)
- maternity care assistant
- assistant to midwife
- maternity support employee
- midwife care assistant
- midwifery care assistant
- midwife assistant
- midwifery assistant
- maternity healthcare assistant
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 32
- hygiene in a health care setting
- childbirth
- contribute to continuity of health care
- examine the new-born infant
- empathise with the healthcare user
- provide basic support to patients
- provide pre-natal care
- identify abnormalities
- advise on family planning
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- advise on pregnancy
- deal with emergency care situations
- pregnancy
- support nurses
- work under supervision in care
- communicate with nursing staff
- follow clinical guidelines
- provide postnatal care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- health education
- human anatomy
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- care for the new-born infant
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work with nursing staff
- interact with healthcare users
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- monitor basic patients signs
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (EN) · 18
- microbiology-bacteriology
- use different communication channels
- analgesics
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- neonatology
- provide health education
- postpartum period
- monitor pregnancy
- promote health and safety
- distribute meals to patients
- preparation for parenthood
- have computer literacy
- sex education
- embryology
- apply context specific clinical competences
- use obstetric sonography
- preparation for child delivery
- anaesthetics
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