What do direct entry midwives do?
Direct-Entry Midwives: Direct-entry midwives are trained to provide the Midwives Model of Care to healthy women and newborns primarily in out-of-hospital settings. They do not have nursing education as a prerequisite for midwifery education.
Do midwives work alone?
A nurse midwife may work alone or in conjunction with a doctor or medical team. They may work at a hospital as part of the team or staff, or they may work independently on a one-on-one basis with the patient.
What can nurse-midwives not do?
Midwives cannot:
- Administer anesthesia or use advanced medical equipment.
- Administer epidurals (though anesthesiologists can administer one if you’re delivering in a hospital)
- Perform surgery, including C-sections.
- Use vaccum- or forceps-assisted deliveries.
Can midwives do epidurals?
Do midwives do C-sections or offer epidurals? Midwives cannot do C-sections without a doctor present. Midwives can refer a patient to an anesthesiologist for an epidural (though many women who choose a midwife would prefer to give birth without any pain medications). They do not, however, actually perform epidurals.
Can midwives give ultrasounds?
In broad terms, midwives offer what they call traditional care, which in the context of pregnancy and childbirth means they eschew the tools of modern medicine, like ultrasounds and epidurals, and they don’t do procedures like cesarean sections.
Can midwives first assist in C sections?
Discussion: Midwives can be trained to first assist the obstetrician/gynecologist in a cesarean section. Since the duration of a cesarean section is not prolonged, the patient will not experience increased blood loss or infection secondary to a prolonged procedure.
What’s a sister midwife?
MIDWIFERY SISTER / MIDWIFE Midwives assist with pregnancy, labour and birth. Midwives wear a Stuart blue uniform with white piping. Midwifery Sisters wear a navy uniform with white piping.