Registered Midwife
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About the Role
NMC Health is seeking a Registered Midwife to provide comprehensive care to women and newborns during antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods. The role requires a valid nursing license, BLS certification, and strong clinical skills in midwifery.
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Responsibilities
- Provide safe and compassionate care during antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods
- Assist with spontaneous vaginal deliveries, instrumental deliveries, and caesarean sections
- Monitor labour progress, perform CTG monitoring, and interpret fetal heart rates
- Perform immediate post delivery care for mother and newborn
- Provide education and support for breastfeeding and skin to skin bonding
- Administer medications and monitor for side effects
- Maintain accurate patient records and documentation
Requirements
- Valid nursing license from relevant regulatory health authority
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card
- Ability to communicate clearly in English (spoken and written)
- Willingness to work across departments when necessary
- Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter professional team (desirable)
- Organizational and administrative skills for EMR documentation (desirable)
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Position Overview
- The post holder will always work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Practice in accordance to the regulator Scope of Practice, ensuring completion of all competencies and required clinical privileging prior to providing direct patient care.
- Provide safe and compassionate care during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.
- Provide safe and EBP care in relation to spontaneous vaginal deliveries (SVD), assist with instrumental vaginal deliveries, and caesarean deliveries (both emergent and elective) for the mother and newborn.
- Assist the obstetrician with required procedures or perform as per scope of practice, such as artificial rupture of membranes (AROM), sterile vaginal examinations.
- Monitor the progress of labouring mothers, performs CTG monitoring and interprets findings of foetal heart rates.
- Support women during childbirth, reflective of the woman’s birthing plan.
- Perform immediate post delivery care of the mother and newborn.
- Support, promote, and protect the ten steps within the WHO Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
- Provide education and support strategies to the mother and newborn that encourage early breastfeeding and skin to skin bonding.
- Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
- Perform systematic patient assessment, re assessment and collect pertinent data.
- Determine actual and potential midwifery diagnoses, problems, and issues.
Essential Qualifications
- Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority.
- Manage their own professional re licensure.
- Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
- Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
Desirable Qualifications
- Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter professional team.
- Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
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