This text guides the consumer wherever demonstration, teaching, assessing and evaluation of specific midwifery skills and knowledge are required. The assessment tools have application in many settings and situations, both structured and non-structured learning environments, and offers industry and education providers reassurance about the quality and safety of midwifery care provision.

The text delivers professionally agreed performance criteria to education providers and industry partners as the competency tools to assess midwifery skills against the standards for practice defined as necessary by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. It also provides evidence of, or confirmation of, progress in midwifery skill attainment, practices that require development and a useful tool for the learner to evaluate and reflect upon their midwifery practice.

1. Antenatal Abdominal Assessment and Palpation of the Pregnant Woman’s Abdomen
2. Antenatal HACE Skills Competency
3. Receiving a baby at caesarean section
4. Assist (accoucheur) a normal birth
5. Initial Newborn Physical Assessment
6. Intrapartum HACE Assessment
7. Assisting with a Breastfeed
8. Postpartum wound care
9. Neonatal blood collection
10. Feeding a Newborn via an Naso/Oro-gastric Tube
11. Postnatal HACE Assessment
12. Managing Postpartum Haemorrhage OSCA
13. Managing Shoulder Dystocia OSCA
14. Managing Breech Birth
15. Managing Maternal Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation ‘(CPR)’
16. Managing Neonatal Resuscitation

This text guides the consumer wherever demonstration, teaching, assessing and evaluation of specific midwifery skills and knowledge are required. The assessment tools have application in many settings and situations, both structured and non-structured learning environments, and offers industry and education providers reassurance about the quality and safety of midwifery care provision. The text delivers professionally agreed performance criteria to education providers and industry partners as the competency tools to assess midwifery skills against the standards for practice defined as necessary by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. It also provides evidence of, or confirmation of, progress in midwifery skill attainment, practices that require development and a useful tool for the learner to evaluate and reflect upon their midwifery practice.