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Explore the power of midwifery competencies in providing comprehensive care from pre-pregnancy to early life, focusing on healthy outcomes and respectful, individualized approaches. Embrace essential competencies and quality frameworks to ensure optimal maternal and newborn health.
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Continuum Care Implementation in Midwifery Services ChirapornWorawong PhD MSN RN Director of Boromarajonani College of Nursing UdonThani Faculty of Health Sciences, Alma Ata University, Yogyakata, Indonesia
Midwifery Competencies (ICM, 2013) • Knowledge and skillsfrom obstetrics, neonatology, the social sciences, public health & ethics that form the basis of high quality, culturally relevant, • appropriate care for women, newborn infants, and childbearing families • Health education and services to promote healthy family life, planned pregnancies and positive parenting • Antenatal care, including early detection and treatment or referral for complications • Care during labour • Postpartum care for women • Care for the newbornup to two months of age • Abortion-related careas appropriate within the applicable laws, regulations & protocols.
Midwifery Competencies (ICM, 2018) Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice 2018 UPDATE
The Lancet Series on Midwifery Framework for Quality Maternal and Newborn Care The practice of midwifery—the “skilled, knowledgeable, & compassionate carefor childbearing women, newborn infants, & families across the continuum throughout pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the early weeks of life. Core characteristics—optimisingnormal biological, psychological, social, and cultural processes of reproduction and early life; timely prevention and managementof complications; consultation with and referral to other services; respect for women’s individual circumstances and views; working in partnership with women to strengthen women’s own capabilities to care for themselves and their families
The Lancet Series on Midwifery Framework for Quality Maternal and Newborn Care
Continuum of Care Connecting care throughout the crucial time periods in the lifecycle
Continuum of Care Connecting places and approaches of care giving
Interventions that reduce newborn deaths within the continuum of care Interventions that reduce newborn deaths within the continuum of care
ANC Model: Positive Pregnancy Experience To provide pregnant women with respectful, individualized, person-centred careat every contact, with implementation of effective clinical practices (interventions and tests), and provision of relevant and timely information, and psychosocial and emotional support, by practitioners with good clinical and interpersonal skills within a well functioning health system
New Intrapartum Care Guideline from WHO Focuses on a Positive Childbirth Experience • Respect and dignity • A companion of choice • Effective communication by maternity staff • Pain relief strategies • Freedom to move around in the early stage of labor • Comfortable birth position of choice
Midwife-led Continuity of Care Delivers Positive Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes According to a new study published in The Cochrane Library, maternity care that involves a midwife as the main care provider leads to several positive outcomes with no adverse effects for both mothers and their babies
For Further Information ChirapornWorawongc_worawong2@yahoo.com