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Midwives

Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.

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  • Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
  • Provide information about community health and social resources.
  • Suture perineal lacerations.
  • Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
  • Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
  • Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
  • Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
  • Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
  • Complete birth certificates.
  • Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
  • Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
  • Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
  • Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
  • Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
  • Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
  • Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
  • Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
  • Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
  • Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
  • Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
  • Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
  • Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
  • Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
  • Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
  • Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
  • Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
  • Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
  • Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
  • Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
  • Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.
  • Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
  • Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
  • Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
  • Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
  • Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
  • Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
  • Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
  • Collaborate in research studies.
  • Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
  • Provide information about community health and social resources.
  • Suture perineal lacerations.
  • Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
  • Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
  • Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
  • Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
  • Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
  • Complete birth certificates.
  • Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
  • Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
  • Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
  • Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
  • Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
  • Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
  • Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
  • Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
  • Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
  • Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
  • Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
  • Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
  • Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
  • Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
  • Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
  • Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
  • Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
  • Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
  • Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
  • Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
  • Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
  • Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
  • Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.
  • Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
  • Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
  • Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
  • Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
  • Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
  • Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
  • Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
  • Collaborate in research studies.
  • Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.

Skills

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
4
Workplace Documents
5
Graphic Literacy
4

Abilities

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

Knowledge

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $119,810
    $62,530
    $36,880
    Ohio
    US
    $127,340
    $64,030
    $37,220
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $58
    $30
    $18
    Ohio
    US
    $61
    $31
    $18

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 1,490
  • Yearly Projected Openings 90

Typical Education

Personality

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Dependability
  • Concern for Others
  • Integrity
  • Self Control
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Tools

  • Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units
  • Bedpans
  • Blood collection syringes
  • Desktop computers
  • Electronic blood pressure units
  • Electronic medical thermometers
  • Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories
  • Glucose monitors or meters
  • Infant scales
  • Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
  • Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
  • Lancets
  • Medical acoustic stethoscopes
  • Medical bulb syringes
  • Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
  • Medical gas cylinders or related devices
  • Medical oxygen masks or parts
  • Medical syringes with needle
  • Medical tape measures
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph transducer accessories
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echocardiograph or echocardiograph units for general diagnostic use
  • Mercury blood pressure units
  • Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
  • Notebook computers
  • Patient floor scales
  • Personal computers
  • Reflex hammers or mallets
  • Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
  • Surgical needle holders
  • Surgical scissors
  • Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets
  • Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
  • Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
  • Urinalysis test strips
  • Urinary catheterization kits
  • Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
  • Vaginal exam speculas

Technology

  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise application integration software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Internet browser software
  • Medical software
  • Office suite software
  • Presentation software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
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