Clinical24 Republic of Ireland offers a wide range of specialty jobs for nurses across the Republic of Ireland, including Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives roles.
We have plenty of Registered Midwives shifts available and ready to be filled in both the private and public sectors.
A midwife is a trained health professional who provide pre-and postnatal care to pregnant moms as well as performing births and offering breastfeeding and nutritional support. They tend to focus on low-risk, low-tech births for moms-to-be who want to try to avoid surgical intervention, epidurals, pain medications, and/or drugs that induce labor. Midwives may deliver babies at birthing centers or at home, but most can also deliver babies at a hospital.
While licensed and certified, midwives are highly trained, but they are not doctors and cannot perform cesarean sections on their own. They can prescribe epidurals and labor-inducing drugs, but they are less likely to do so compared to doctors.
Midwives can attend low-risk births without a doctor present, however, in the event of a complication like an emergency C-section, they'll have to get an on-call physician to perform the surgery. In some states, midwives must work in a collaborative practice with a doctor, and in others, they can work in a solo practice.
Midwives can have different levels of training, such as certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), are registered nurses who have graduated from an accredited nurse-midwifery education program and have passed a national exam. Certified midwives (CMs), are non-nurse midwives who have a bachelor's degree or higher in a health field, have completed an accredited midwifery education program, and have passed a national exam. Certified professional midwives (CPMs) are non-nurse midwives who have the training and clinical experience in childbirth, including childbirth outside of the hospital, and have passed a national exam, and lay midwives are not certified or licensed but have apprenticed or received informal training.
During pregnancy, a midwife will provide the expecting mother with antenatal care if the mother is expecting to you give birth in a public maternity unit. One might also see a midwife during an appointment with a private obstetrician. For a planned home birth, one can probably see the same midwife (or a small team) throughout their pregnancy. And the midwife will usually check the baby's health, growth and position, advise on or help with hospital bookings and routine tests and checks, give support and advice to the mother and help the expecting mother prepare for labour and birth.
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