This domain articulates the requirement that the registered midwife should practice incorporating best available evidence to provide quality health care and contribute to the creation and/or implementation of knowledge through active participation.
Evidence-Based Practice
Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
Performance Criteria:
- Utilizes current evidence-based knowledge to guide midwifery practice.
- Incorporates peer reviewed evidence into midwifery practice and when initiating change.
- Participates in the formulation of evidence-based practice based on best available credible research and/or national and international professional consensus and guidance and audit.
- Disseminates research, practice development and audit findings with colleagues and peers in order enhance midwifery interventions and inform care delivery.
- Critically evaluates research, audit and practice development findings that underpin midwifery practice.
- Promotes dissemination, use, monitoring and review of professional standards and best practice guidelines.
Using data and information systems
Uses data systems to enhance the quality and delivery of care for women and their families.
Performance Criteria:
- Acquires the information technology skills needed to inform and provide optimum healthcare and documents accurately the outcomes of interventions.
- Understands how to use technology and data to assist in problem identification and deficiencies that can be resolved to enable improvements in the care of women and their families.
- Analyses data accurately and comprehensively leading to appropriate interpretation of findings and development of implementation plans.
Research Participation
Uses research, evaluation, service improvement and audit findings to enhance the quality of care and protect the rights of participating women and their families.
Performance Criteria:
- Participates in activities that disseminate research findings such as, publications, journal clubs, grand rounds and presentations.
- Promotes research, evaluation, service improvement initiatives and audits designed to improve healthcare practice and disseminates findings to colleagues, women, their families and communities.
- Undertakes appropriate development to ensure competency to recruit, ensure informed consent is obtained, support involvement, facilitate, monitor and where appropriate advocate withdrawal of individuals participating in clinical research and evaluation.
