قابلة قانونية (إحلال لغرض دعم الكفاءات الوطنية) / Staff Midwife – Saudi Only

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure correct identification of mother and newborn.
• Monitor normal pregnancies and carries out examinations necessary for the development of normal pregnancies including vaginal examination.
• Recognize the warning signs of abnormality in the mother or infant, which necessitates referral to physician and assists the latter where appropriate.
• Monitor the condition of the fetus by the appropriate clinical and technical means.
• Assist and care for the mother during labor.
• Perform artificial rapturing of membrane during labor.
• Conduct spontaneous deliveries including where episiotomy is required. Breech delivery only if spontaneous and precipitate.
• Assist Obstetric medical staff with abnormal deliveries and other obstetric procedures e.g. removal of SHIRODKAR suture, extra amniotic prostaglandin.
• Examine and care for the newborn infants, initiate where necessary, immediate resuscitation.