midwife (EN)
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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.
Classification skills are not a measurement of your proficiency or future displaced hours.
Source aliases (EN)
- foetal nurse
- head of midwifery services
- intensive care neonatal nurse
- obstetric nurse
- community midwife
- pre-natal nurse
- maternity nurse
- childbirth assistant
- midwife researcher
- consultant midwife
- neonatal nurse practitioner
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 73
- hygiene in a health care setting
- respond to changing situations in health care
- educate on the prevention of illness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- microbiology-bacteriology
- childbirth
- contribute to continuity of health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- health care legislation
- examine the new-born infant
- collect biological samples from patients
- lactation
- provide pre-natal care
- obstetric ultrasonography
- advise on family planning
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- analgesics
- advise on pregnancy
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- manage healthcare users' data
- deal with emergency care situations
- neonatology
- pregnancy
- provide health education
- pharmacology
- postpartum period
- provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality
- monitor pregnancy
- follow clinical guidelines
- carry out treatment prescribed by doctors
- provide education on family life
- resuscitation
- prescribe medication
- radiological procedures
- provide postnatal care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- health education
- human anatomy
- epidemiology
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- relaxation techniques
- care for the new-born infant
- provide pregnancy termination care
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- address problems critically
- promote inclusion
- provide care for the mother during labour
- take emergency measures in pregnancy
- psychology
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- support informed consent
- preparation for parenthood
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- apply organisational techniques
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- sex education
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- female reproductive system pathology
- pathology
- embryology
- advise on childbirth
- apply context specific clinical competences
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- conduct spontaneous child deliveries
- postpartum legal protection
- dietetics
- preparation for child delivery
- anaesthetics
- accept own accountability
Optional (EN) · 15
- perform antepartum fetal monitoring
- address side effects of menopause
- yoga
- use different communication channels
- phytotherapy
- surgery
- apply acupuncture
- sociology
- pedagogy
- conduct research on reproductive medicine
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- homeopathy
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use obstetric sonography
- company policies
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