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Things To Understand Concerning A Portland Midwife

By Grace Rivas


In Portland midwife refers to a health care professional who provides care to childbearing women at different stages. The various stages include during, pregnancy, postpartum period, labor, birth, and the period between pregnancies. They also go ahead to take care for the newborn baby and assist the mother with the breastfeeding process. A midwife can be of either gender, although the males are still referred to as midwives.

Midwives work in a variety of health care environments including communities, group practice, private maternity hospitals, large general hospitals, birth facilities, stand-alone maternity facilities, and with general medical professionals. Mostly they work in teams and with other health specialists and teams. This does not however hinder them from practicing singly in their own medical units. Some choose this option.

Besides giving care to females during birth and pregnancy, these professionals also offer primary and medical care that relates to reproductive health, yearly gynecological exams, menopausal care, and family planning. They have the needed training and education to apprehend changes in usual advancements of labor and deal with divergences from normal progress. They also help in high risk circumstances that might come up during labor process.

The assistance provided by midwives to childbearing women and other women in general is individualized and physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally suited to them. The profession is a woman empowering model of maternity care and is used in all nations of the world. Its purpose is to eliminate or reduce complications during birth and during postpartum period. Due to the nature of the work, the practitioners work in shifts.

The work shift consists of day and night duties with all practitioners entitled to both duties. In Portland the working condition and the pay scale of a midwife is determined by the NHS pay system referred to as Agenda for Change. Newly qualified midwives earn a minimum salary of 21, 388 US Dollars per year. A senior manager or midwife consultant has the ability to earn up to 80, 000 USD in a year.

There are a couple of ways one can follow to become a certified midwife. Most of those routes enable one to be certified and become a qualified practitioner who can receive a license and practice their career without any hindrance. The major routes followed by most licensed midwives are certified midwives, certified nurse-midwives, direct entry midwife, and certified professional midwives. All the named routes require that one posses proof of certification in their field of specialty before being licensed. There is a body responsible for controlling the activities of these professionals.

Direct entry professionals are independent practitioners trained in the field of midwifery through various means such as apprenticeship, midwifery school, or self-study. They may also learn by undertaking university or college-based programs in the nursing discipline. They provide the service in out-of-hospital environment. Examples of these kinds of practitioners are registered and licensed midwives.

Any Portland midwife must achieve all the necessary experience and academic qualification before becoming licensed and certified to serve the general public freely. This makes them easy to trust and safe to work with. Cases that these specialists cannot handle are usually taken to obstetricians who are better qualified.




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