Midwife

Role overview

Patient care

• Assess patients and families using appropriate age-specific techniques and address physical and psychological needs.
• Involve patients, significant others, and healthcare providers in care planning as appropriate; coordinate multidisciplinary care and prioritize individual needs.
• Revise care plans, coordinate clinical pathways, initiate appropriate transfers, and recognize cues that may indicate problems.
• Perform nursing interventions and procedures according to standards, policies, and established competencies.
• Perform unit-specific care, including AmniSure amniotic-fluid assessment, care for amniotic fluid embolism, assistance with amniotomy and forceps delivery, and placenta examination.
• Document relevant information, safely handle and administer controlled medications, and maintain supplies, equipment, and a safe environment.

Unit and professional duties

• Maintain clinical competency and complete mandatory education and unit competencies, including safety and infection-control requirements.
• Participate in meetings, committees, unit goals, education, and continuous quality improvement, including data collection and incident, complaint, and medication-error reporting.
• Perform clerical duties and other duties as required.
• When applicable, complete preceptor training and plan, implement, and evaluate orientee competency-based orientation with unit colleagues.
• When applicable, provide timely feedback and objective documentation to the nurse manager under hospital standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Midwifery of at least three years, or an accepted nursing degree and midwifery certificate pathway, or the specified Canadian or US associate-degree pathway with national exam and midwifery certificate.
• Valid license or registration to practice in the home country and/or country of last employment, where applicable.
• Valid BLS certification or another certification according to scope of practice.
• At least two years of recent postgraduate experience in a Labour and Delivery Unit.
• Ability to provide age-appropriate care, assess physical and psychological needs, and coordinate and prioritize individualized care.

Jurisdiction-specific notes

• The posting states that UAE national graduates are exempt from experience and clinical-training requirements for the applied title.
• Non-UAE national graduates of UAE universities are required to complete six months of post-graduation clinical training in an APS health facility, except for Registered and assistant Nurse titles.