Saving Babies Lives Midwife – Fetal Surveillance

at  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Working collaboratively with obstetric consultants and the practice development team in maternity to increase midwives and obstetricians knowledge and competence in identifying fetal well-being, escalating and managing potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings. Develop staff awareness in recognising factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of cardiotocographs (CTGs) and impaired clinical decision making. Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman’s health, pregnancy, gestation, clinical risk factors and stage of labour and use this to inform their decision making Develop midwives’ competence in undertaking intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low risk women as per guidelines Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in the midwifery led unit and at home and increase confidence in staff in auscultating the fetal heart intermittently Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal care whether in the antenatal ward, clinic, day assessment unit and or triage undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing Provide teaching and support for staff who need to repeat the competency test Work with the education lead for maternity and CSFs to facilitate the weekly CTG and Intermittent Auscultation meetings, maintaining attendance registers to ensure compliance to the mandatory requirement for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops Organise CTG master classes ensuring the attendance of all eligible staff Use every opportunity to facilitate teaching, learning and reflection within the clinical area Take responsibility for teaching sessions on mandatory training days with regards to fetal surveillance

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