Midwife

Job Description

Title: Midwife

Company Name: Muslim Hands International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's or associate's degree in nursing or related field.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period.
∎ Provide full antenatal care, including screening tests in the hospital, community, and the home.
∎ Provide counseling and advice before and after screening and tests.
∎ Conduct deliveries on her own and care for the newborn infant.
∎ Manage complications in pregnancy and childbirth, by the principles of basic emergency obstetric care.
∎ Identify high-risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists.
∎ Provide support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality, and neonatal death.
∎ Provide primary care to women of productive age, by the Basic Package of Health Services.
∎ Counsel and educate women, the family, and the community, in relevant areas of health and provide a program of parenthood preparation and complete preparation for childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition.
∎ Give support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing, and making up feeds.
∎ Provide all non-surgical methods of family planning, and counseling for surgical methods.
∎ Decreased risk of needing a cesarean and reduced rate of labor induction and augmentation.
∎ Help to decrease infant mortality rates and preterm birth and take all initiatives which are necessary in case of need and carry out where necessary immediate resuscitation.
∎ Help to decrease the maternal mortality rate and pregnancy-related sufferings.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Certificate of Midwife.
∎ Appropriate state licensure.
∎ Proven experience working as a midwife.
∎ The ability to work under pressure.
∎ Strong problem-solving, analytical, and clinical assessment skills.
∎ Patient and compassionate.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 20 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 14 Jun 2023
∎ Muslim Hands International

Category: NGO/Development

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