maternity support worker
ISCO: 3222. Skills: 50. Essential: 32.
Essential skills
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- childbirth
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- empathise with the healthcare user
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- examine the new-born infant
- follow clinical guidelines
- health education
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor basic patients signs
- pregnancy
- provide basic support to patients
- provide postnatal care
- provide pre-natal care
- support nurses
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work under supervision in care
- work with nursing staff
Supporting skills
- anaesthetics
- analgesics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- distribute meals to patients
- embryology
- have computer literacy
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor pregnancy
- neonatology
- postpartum period
- preparation for child delivery
- preparation for parenthood
- promote health and safety
- provide health education
- sex education
- use different communication channels
- use obstetric sonography