Anny .F.Mogoung
HCS/531
DR.David Harrell
April 17, 2013
University of Phoenix
Within the Healthcare continuum, there are different types of careers. We can have providers, researchers, administrators, and other. Among the providers nursing is a field that can be listed. Midwifery is a part of nursing. In the following lines, we will describe the midwifery career; identify the workforce roles within two services and finally explore the impact of the midwifery on the Healthcare organization. World Health organization (nd) makes clearly that “Midwifery encompasses care of women during pregnancy, labor, and the post partum, as well as the care of new born”. Nurse-midwife works closely …show more content…
In the United States, there are two sort of midwifery: direct-entry midwives and nurse-midwives. Beside the license that they require to process before they practice, the majority of nurse-midwives are master’s degree holder. We have certified midwives. A midwife can work in any facility including hospitals, clinics, community health, at home. We will explore the workforces roles of midwife in community health unit and then in the hospital. In community health setting, nurse-midwife does: - prenatal care, she observes the evolution of the pregnancy, check how the fetus is growing. Depending on the stage, he gives advices concerning nutrition, the preparation to the child bearing; investigate if there are signs of abnormality such as preavia-placenta, infection, abortion. If necessary (because in that faculty usually the medical doctor is not always available) she can prescribe.-Counseling involving reproductive health. Example of the subject how to avoid AID/HIV/STD by using condoms, practicing sexual abstinence. Even though antiretroviral therapies have decrease the inpatients stays of AIDS patients (centers for …show more content…
This diagram has two divisions. The division of administration and the division of care. The main purpose is to show the different types of nurses, midwives and health care professionals. From the administration prospective, we have the hospital as the head. Then by taking midwife as a point focal we notices that in case of issues or concern on midwife is manager at the hospital, register,(RN) and bachelor science nursing holder will refer to nurse midwife (MSN) or nurse practitioner (NP) then MSN or NPN report to clinical nurse manager. After his follow director of nursing (DN). He will report to execute director of nursing who is part of the section head. After section head, we have branch head including directors or managers. The directors will report to division head including executive director. Above there is chief