Midwives

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (90%).

• 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.
• Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
• Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
• Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
• Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
• 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.
• Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
• Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
• Suture perineal lacerations.
• Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
• Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
• 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.
• Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
• Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
• Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.

• Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
• Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.