Registered Midwife Scope of Practice
Exhibits leadership qualities to manage midwifery care safely and effectively.Leadership
Exhibits leadership qualities and manages midwifery care safely, efficiently and ethically.
Performance Criteria:
- Applies clinical reasoning and problem solving skills to organize, manage and evaluate care.
- Manages self, and where appropriate organizes others, to ensure effective workload prioritization and time management.
- Provides feedback, offers suggestions for change and deals effectively with the impact of change on her own practice, the teams and/or on the organization.
- Advocates for, and contributes to, the creation and maintenance of a positive working environment and team working.
- Participates in the mentorship and preceptorship of others to maximize the effectiveness of midwifery care.
- Acts as a role model for colleagues, students and other members of the care team by treating all with respect, trust and dignity.
- Seeks ways to advance midwifery autonomy and accountability.
- Promotes physiologically normal vaginal birth.
Quality Improvement and Safety
Ensures midwifery practice meets organizational and international quality and safety standards and guidelines and participates in continuous quality improvement.
Performance criteria:
- Practices in accordance with approved quality standards and guidelines reflecting recognized evidence-based best practice.
- Seeks evidence from a wide range of credible sources to maintain, extend and evaluate the quality of midwifery care.
- Acts immediately and appropriately in accordance with the national and/or institutional disaster plan as needed assuming a leadership role in the triage and coordination of pregnant women.
- Implements quality assurance and risk management strategies.
- Ensures a safe environment by reporting actual and potential risks and takes timely action to meet national legislations and workplace health and safety principles.
- Acknowledges her own limitations in knowledge, judgment and/or skills, and functions within those limitations.
- Adheres to and implements policies and procedures.
- Participates in ongoing quality improvement and risk management initiatives.
- Adheres to and implements infection control policies and procedures.
- Communicates and records safety concerns to the relevant authority and documents response.
Delegation and Supervision
Delegates and provides supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice.
Performance Criteria:
- Delegates to others, activities commensurate with their abilities and scope of practice.
- Uses a range of supportive strategies when supervising aspects of care delegated to others.
- Maintains accountability and responsibility when delegating aspects of care to others.
