registered Midwife

SINDISWA RACHEAL MTSHEMLA

ID NUMBER – 610**********

TYGERBERG HOSPITAL

LABOR WARD

OBSTETRIC AND GYNAECOLOGY MODULE

1.The officer is a Registered Midwife in Labor Ward since 1st November 2008. In Obstetric and Gynaecological Module during the period she also worked in Post Natal and Ante Natal Section for a few months as :-

A)Rotation Shift Leader (Labor Ward)

-Together with the Operational Manager participate in management of Human and Financial Resources to fulfil ward operational functions.

-Orientate new staff or delegate

-Write requisition for faulty equipment or follow up on repairs

-Allocate staff for in-service training

-Attend any meetings when Operational Manager is not available

-Check infant warmers, Emergency Trolleys and Defibrillators

B)After Hour Manager (Management Office)

-Together with Assistant Manager of Nursing participate in Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the different hospital Modules.

-i.e Obs and Gynae, Paediatrics, Trauma Medical and Surgical Modules

C)Module Co-ordinator (Obstetric and Gynae Module)

-Ensures adequate staffing of the module wards for delivery of better patient care.

D)Allocate staff according to the unit cubicles.

-Check availability of daily equipment

-Attend to concerns, queries and complaints of the patient and their families.

-Regulate tea and launch breaks

-Monitor attendance register and absenteeism

-Audit birth Registers

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

MIDWIFERY

-Participate in midwifery led labour and delivery of normal and complicated childbirth

-Manage physiology of all stages of normal labour by creating a sound private birth environment

-Repair and perform episiotomy

-Initial neonatal resuscitation and initial neonatal physical examinations

POST NATAL

-Assist and promote breast-feeding and other feeding methods

-Post traumatic counselling in complicated stressful deliveries childbirths

-Bereavement counselling to foetal anomalies and death loss

Considerate, Courteous, Supportive and understand women issues. That is Family Planning, STI’s, Breast-feeding.

Use qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills to provide women with optimal care.

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINSTRATIVE

Co-ordinate daily nursing in labour ward Communicate with multi-disciplinary health team educate junior and new challenges about Actions and Response in emergencies e.g FHR patterns and decals on CTG.

-Staff allocation, Motivation and Development.

-Help in maintaining accurate documentation and concise medical recording.

-Involved in Planning, Organising, Directing and Controlling its labor ward functioning.

-Re-allocate staff to address shortages e.g when a colleague is sick, by co-ordinating extra staff from different wards of the Obstetric and Gynae Module.

-Gather statistics information

-Participate in compiling of annual operational plan of unit.

-Participate in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of patient care.

-Support post-graduate and under-graduate students

-Health education, health promotion and health life-style motivator. E.g condom use, ANC Screening tests

-Perform ward rounds to ensure delivery of pt care. These ensures that new-borns are prevented from unnecessary complications

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