Requirements
- Diploma in Nursing with Post basic in Midwifery
- Registered with the Malaysian Nursing Board
- Valid Annual Practicing Certificate
Duties & responsibilities
- The Midwife is responsible for rendering professional nursing care to patient’s pre-natal, intra partum and post-natal in the unit and shall be held accountable for the patient outcomes under her care
- Collect and contributes to a database (physiological, emotional, sociological, culture, psychological and spiritual needs) from available resources (e.g. Patient, family, Doctors’ notes and others)
- Assess and monitor normal pregnancies and to carry out examinations necessary for the monitoring of the development of normal pregnancies
- Identifies and document changes in labor status which interferes the patient and fetus condition which necessitates referral to the doctor
- Established nursing goals and patient expected outcomes based on the list of problem with patient, family and significant others
- Develops individualized nursing care plans based upon the problem list and plan intervention that follows established nursing protocols (e.g. Critical Pathways)
- Care for and assist the patient during labor and monitor the condition of the fetus in the utero by the appropriate clinical and technical means
- Administers prescribed medication safely
- Conduct delivery in emergency situations
- Initiate immediate newborn resuscitation when necessary
- Assess situations for need of information or support during post-natal period
- Develop short-range teaching plans before discharg
- Implement teaching plans that are specific to the patient’s level of development and knowledge
- Support and reinforce the teaching plans of other health professionals
- Use line of authority and communication channel within the work setting appropriately
- Use communication skill as a method of data collection, nursing intervention and evaluation of car
- Document and records assessment, nursing care plans, interventions and evaluation accurately and promptly.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with patient’s, families, significant others and health team member
- Evaluate effectiveness of one’s own communication with patients, colleagues and others