Occupation Atlasmidwife
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/95cda6a9-a70a-4a93-9442-11d573cb4a02
midwife
Midwives assist women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, conduct births and provide care for the new-born. They advise on health, preventive measures, preparation for parenthood, detection of complications in mother and child, accessing of medical care, promoting normal birth and carrying out emergency measures.
Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SRISocial · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.04
- R Realistic3.98
- I Investigative3.54
- C Conventional3.26
- E Enterprising2.70
- A Artistic1.91
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Midwives (29-9099.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (73)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on childbirth
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- anaesthetics
- analgesics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- carry out treatment prescribed by doctors
- childbirth
- collect biological samples from patients
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct spontaneous child deliveries
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- dietetics
- educate on the prevention of illness
- embryology
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- epidemiology
- examine the new-born infant
- female reproductive system pathology
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- health education
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- lactation
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor pregnancy
- neonatology
- obstetric ultrasonography
- pathology
- pharmacology
- postpartum legal protection
- postpartum period
- pregnancy
- preparation for child delivery
- preparation for parenthood
- prescribe medication
- promote inclusion
- provide care for the mother during labour
- provide education on family life
- provide health education
- provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality
- provide postnatal care
- provide pre-natal care
- provide pregnancy termination care
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- radiological procedures
- relaxation techniques
- respond to changing situations in health care
- resuscitation
- sex education
- support informed consent
- take emergency measures in pregnancy
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (15)
- address side effects of menopause
- apply acupuncture
- company policies
- conduct research on reproductive medicine
- homeopathy
- pedagogy
- perform antepartum fetal monitoring
- phytotherapy
- sociology
- surgery
- use different communication channels
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use obstetric sonography
- yoga
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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