Will “Midwives” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
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Job Description
Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-9099.01
Also Known As…
- Staff Midwife
- Midwife and Birth Center Owner
- Midwife
- Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife
- Licensed Midwife
- Licensed Direct Entry Midwife
- Lay Midwife
- Director of Midwifery/Staff Midwife
- Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife
- Certified Professional Midwife
- Staff Midwife/Apprenticeship Director
- Staff Midwife at Birth Center, Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife
- Licensed and Certified Midwife
- Homebirth Midwife
- Direct-Entry Midwife
- Certified Midwife
Tasks for “Midwives”
- Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds and biophysical profiles.
- Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, and music.
- Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
- Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
- Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
- Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
- Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
- Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
- Complete birth certificates.
- Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
- Incorporate research findings into practice as appropriate.
- Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
- Provide postpartum patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
- Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
- Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, and retarded fetal growth.
- Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
- Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, and breastfeeding.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
- Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
- Provide information about community health and social resources.
- Collaborate in research studies.
- Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs and hydrotherapy.
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
- Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises and external version.
- Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
- Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
- Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
- Suture perineal lacerations.
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