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| 2230 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PROFESSIONALS |
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Nursing and midwifery professionals assist medical doctors
in their tasks, deal with emergencies in their absence, and
provide professional nursing care for the sick, injured,
physically and mentally disabled, and others in need of such
care, or they de liver or assist in the delivery of babies,
provide antenatal and post-natal care and instruct parents in
baby care.
Tasks include -
(a) giving professional nursing care and treatment, either as
curative or preventive measures, to ill, injured, disabled
and other patients, and newborn babies and their mothers,
in hospitals, clinics or other establishments;
(b) assisting medical doctors in their tasks, dealing with
emergencies and giving first-aid treatment in their
absence;
(c) administering medicine and drugs, applying surgical
dressings and giving other forms of treatment prescribed
by physicians;
(d) supervising and coordinating the work of nursing and other
non-medical staff in operating theatres and assisting
surgeons during operations;
(e) participating in preparations for physical and
psychological treatment of mentally ill patients;
(f) participating in preparations for social adjustment,
development and education of mentally or physically
handicapped patients;
(g) giving profeSSional nursing care to patients in their own
homes;
(h) providing professional nursing services, care and advice
within the community or at a workplace;
(i) specialising in consultant services to schools, industry
and other organisations;
(j) checking on general health and progress of expectant
mothers during pregnancy, and giving them professional
advice and care;
(k) delivering babies in normal births and assisting doctors
with difficult deliveries;
(l) attending mothers in the post-natal period to supervise
their recovery, to check on babies' progress, and to
instruct parents in baby care;
(m) advising on and administering birth control methods;
(n) performing related tasks;
(o) supervising other workers.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Matron
- Midwife, professional
- Nurse, professional
- Sister, nursing/professional
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Aid, nursing/hospital - 5132
- Midwife, associate professional - 3232
- Nurse, associate professional - 3231
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