PART 1. MIDWIFERY
THE DOMAINS OF THE MIDWIFE
1. Being an accountable, autonomous, professional midwife.
2. Safe and effective midwifery care: promoting and providing continuity of care and carer.
3. Universal care for all women and newborn infants.
A. The midwife?s role in public health, health promotion and health protection.
B. The midwife?s role in assessment, screening and care planning.
C. The midwife?s role in optimising normal physiological processes and working to promote positive outcomes and prevent complications.
4. Additional care for women and newborn infants with complications.
A. The midwife?s role in first line assessment and management of complications and additional care needs.
B. The midwife?s role in caring for and supporting women and newborn infants requiring medical, obstetric, neonatal, mental health, social care, and other services.
5. Promoting excellence: the midwife as colleague, scholar and leader.
A. Working with others: the midwife as colleague.
B. Developing knowledge, positive role modelling, and leadership: the midwife as scholar and leader.
6. The midwife as skilled practitioner.
?THE LANGUAGE OF BIRTH?
By Andrea Robertson
Pregnant women are some of the most sensitive people you will ever meet. They are highly vulnerable and very suggestive, at a time when they are actively seeking information and support from a wide range of contacts. They listen
to everyone and everything, read copiously, ask myriads of questions and are the recipients of mountains of advice.
Central to this communication is the language of birth. The words that are used and the manner in which they are spoken can be uplifting and inspiring or devastating and undermining. As caregivers, we often fail to appreciate the impact our words are having.