Registered Midwife

To support and demonstrate our NMC Nursing Mission, Vision, and Values: Our Nursing Vision: At NMC Healthcare, we are committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. Our Nursing Mission: To exemplify clinical excellence, every NMC nurse will seek to: Do the right thing Be the patient’s advocate Be open and transparent Deliver safe, compassionate care Recognize the uniqueness of each patient Contribute to an outstanding patient’s experience Engage with and contribute to, a learning culture Lead and influence changes in healthcare Our Nursing Values: We will achieve this through our core values: Safety Excellence Ethics Trust Collaboration The post holder will work collaboratively with other team members, uphold and live the NMC Nursing Strategy in order to provide safe and outstanding care to their patient, to the patient's bystanders all the time, every time.

Essential: the post holder must   Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.   Manage their own professional re-licensure.   Hold a valid American Heart Associatio n Basic Life Support Provider card.    Be willing to work across departments when necessary.    Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)     DESIRABLE: The post holder should have :   Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.   Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.   Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic

Registered Midwife will:    Practice in accordance to the regulator Scope of Practice, ensuring completion of all competencies and required clinical privileging prior to providing direct patient care.    Registered Midwives can provide care to the woman and newborn in different practice settings.    Provide safe and compassionate care during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.   Provide safe and EBP care in relation to spontaneous vaginal deliveries (SVD), assist with instrumental vaginal deliveries, and caesarean deliveries (both emergent and elective) for the mother and newborn, reflective of scope of practice, life support provider status and clinical privileging.   Assist the obstetrician with required procedures or perform as per scope of practice, competence, and clinical privileging, such as artificial rupture of membranes (AROM), sterile vaginal examinations.   Monitor the progress of labouring mothers, performs CTG monitoring and interprets findings of foetal heart rates and recognises when to escalate to the obstetrician, reflective of scope of practice, competence, and clinical privileging.    Support women during childbirth, reflective of the woman’s birthing plan, is knowledgeable regarding stem cell collection and monitoring in all stages of labour and monitoring the condition of the fetus, reflective of EBP and the WHO Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.    Perform immediate post-delivery care of the mother to include (but not limited to) fundal massage, placental examination, quantifiable blood loss assessment and monitoring of vital signs, with immediate recognition and escalation to the obstetrician as needed, in accordance to scope of practice.    Perform immediate post-delivery care of the newborn(s) to include (but not limited to) taking of cord blood gases, performing the initial steps of newborn care, newborn identification, physical assessment and monitoring of vital signs, with immediate recognition and escalation to the neonatologist as needed, in accordance to scope of practice.    Support, promote, and protect the ten steps within the WHO Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative recommendations during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.    Provide education and support strategies to the mother and newborn that encourage early breastfeeding, and skin-to-skin bonding.    Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.