A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
ROLE OF NURSE IN MIDWIFERY
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2. A midwife is defined as an individual who has
successfully completed a midwifery education
program recognized by the country where it is located
and has secured the required qualifications to be
registered and or legally licensed to practice
midwifery.
The modern midwife is a team member who serves in
an obstetric unit. The team includes an obstetrician, a
midwife, an anesthetist, and a pediatrician.
A midwife provide care to a woman and her family in
all crucial times such as preconception care, care
during antenatal, intranatal, as well as postnatal
period.
3. Antenatal visits are done by midwife in the community area.
Health history, obstetric history is taken by midwife and physical
examination is carried out.
Various tests are also performed along with the abdominal
examination and record is kept for further visit also.
The midwife should treat expectant mothers in a caring , skilled
manner.
The midwife should remember that the mother is an individual
with her own attitudes and traditional beliefs that affect her
opinions and ideas concerning child bearing and rearing.
The midwifes prenatal care duties include examination of
pregnant women, supervision and education of pregnant
women, identification of high-risk mothers, referral of high –risk
mothers to a hospital, training of students at different levels, and
supervision of co-workers.
4. Her duties during labor are assurance and comfort to the
patient, observation, abdominal and vaginal examination,
recording of expectant mother’s progress, delivery of child
, postpartum supervision and care, and provision of
emergency treatment until the physician arrives.
Supportive care during childbirth is as old as humankind
and has been a cornerstone of intrapartum practice for
decades.
Researchers have postulated that supportive care during
labor leads to positive outcomes by enhancing normal
labor physiology and the mothers childbirth experience
5. The overall aim of postpartum care is to detect health problems of
the mother and or baby at an early stage, to encourage
breastfeeding and to give families a good start.
Role of the midwife is to prevent complications promote rapid
restoration of the mothers health , provide family planning
instructions, and provide health education to mother and family.
A midwife acts as a counselor and teacher concerned with the whole
woman.
She teaches women about reproductive health and successful
motherhood.
she promotes adolescent health, family life education, and family
planning.
At the primary health care level , midwives must identify, train,
supervise, and support the needed number of health care workers.
