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Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping, QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| midwife | Occupational skill for the role 'midwife' (also: community midwife, foetal nurse, neonatal nurse practitioner, consultant midwife, obstetric nurse, intensive care neonatal nurse). Use when the user asks for typical midwife work such as: Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.; Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.; Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. |
Midwife
Midwives assist women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, conduct births and provide care for the new-born. They advise on health, preventive measures, preparation for parenthood, detection of complications in mother and child, accessing of medical care, promoting normal birth and carrying out emergency measures.
Core workflow
- Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.
- Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
- Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
- Document findings of physical examinations.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on childbirth
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- anaesthetics
- analgesics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- carry out treatment prescribed by doctors
Hot technologies
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Epic Systems
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Excel
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/95cda6a9-a70a-4a93-9442-11d573cb4a02), ONET 30.3 (29-1161.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*