Description
Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.
- • Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
- • Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- • Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
- • Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
- • Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
- • Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
- • Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
- • Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- • Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
- • Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- • 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.
- • Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.
- • Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
- • Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
- • Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
- • Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- • Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
- • Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
- • Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
- • Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
- • Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- • Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
- • Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
- • Suture perineal lacerations.
- • Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
- • Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
- • Complete birth certificates.
- • Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
- • Collaborate in research studies.
- • Incorporate research findings into practice as appropriate.
- • Provide information about community health and social resources.
- • Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
- • Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
- • Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
- • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
