Nurse-Midwife

Job Detail

Education:

Diploma, Associate’s degree

Work experience:

3 years

Language skills:

English

Contract Type:

Full time

Requirements-Nurse-Midwife

Maternal Care:

Provide comprehensive antenatal care, including health assessments, counseling, and education.
Identify high risk pregnancies and making necessary referrals to medical officers.
Supervise and assist mothers in labor, monitor labor using partograph and nursing care plans.
Ensure all required observations, prescribed treatments and procedures are properly carried out and documented in the patient’s chart.
Provide postnatal care, including counseling on breastfeeding, family planning, and newborn care.
Identify and manage complications during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum periods.
Ensure birth registration is carried out promptly before discharge of both mother and baby.
Offering support and counselling following miscarriages, stillbirth, early neonatal death, birth asphyxia and congenital anomalies.
Arranging and providing health education for the mother, her partner and family.
Offer family planning counseling and services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

Neonatal Care:

Provide immediate newborn care, including resuscitation, thermal regulation, and early breastfeeding.
Monitor newborn health and identify any potential complications through assessment of the newborn.
Administer essential neonatal interventions, such as vitamin K and vaccinations.

Family Planning:

Provide counseling and education on post-partum family planning methods.
Offer contraceptive methods, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

Record Keeping:

Training and Supervision:

Participate in training and capacity-building activities to enhance skills and knowledge.
Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Community linkage:

Coordinate with the community health workers to ensure continuity of care of all clients on discharge.