Responsibilities

• Practice in accordance to the regulator Scope of Practice, ensuring completion of all competencies and required clinical privileging prior to providing direct patient care.
• Registered Midwives can provide care to the woman and newborn in different practice settings.
• Provide safe and compassionate care during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.
• Provide safe and EBP care in relation to spontaneous vaginal deliveries (SVD), assist with instrumental vaginal deliveries, and caesarean deliveries (both emergent and elective) for the mother and newborn, reflective of scope of practice, life support provider status and clinical privileging.
• Assist the obstetrician with required procedures or perform as per scope of practice, competence, and clinical privileging, such as artificial rupture of membranes (AROM), sterile vaginal examinations.
• Monitor the progress of labouring mothers, pe...