Hiring a midwife consultant is a wise decision for midwives who want to start their own midwifery practice, whether it is a birth center, home birth, or women’s health clinic, and if you want to improve business efficiency, productivity, or profitability through better revenue cycle management; but when should you hire a consultant instead of …
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Providing high-quality, evidence-based healthcare has always required effective clinical record-keeping. For secure continuity of care, accurate clinical records are crucial. Electronic papers, handwritten notes, voice recordings, emails, consent forms, text messages, lab results, images, videos, and printouts are all included in midwifery records. It is crucial for a midwife to thoroughly document all interactions with patients …
As midwives, there is such a large need to understand insurance billing for our families. With the Affordable Care Act covering maternity and newborn care services, some midwives choose to be in network to compete with bigger health care system. Most midwives either do cash or out of network insurance billing for their families. Even …
As midwives, we go through years of college and post graduate education and clinical training. We learn a lot about women’s bodies and supporting the natural processes of puberty through menopause, of everything childbearing and breastfeeding. We learn to provide excellent midwifery care – the science and the art of it. We learn prevention and …
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The scope of midwifery practice used throughout this document is based on the ICM definition of the midwife. The ICM recognizes the scope of midwifery practice to include: education and counselling on sexual health and provision of contraceptive methods provision of support, care and advice during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period the conduct of …
Birth center regulations can be overwhelming to some midwives. There are 50 states with their own way of looking at free standing birth centers. Presently, 80% of the states have some sort of regulations for birthing centers. As of today, the states with no birth center regulations are Michigan, Noth Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, North Dakota, …
There are many different types of midwives (we will discuss the two main types present in the US today) and pay potential for each type of midwife. It makes a difference if you are a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) or a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). It makes a difference what you make …
Midwifery business education teaches individuals about traditional and current types of business methods or management techniques. This education helps individuals understand what business methods are successful and why others fail. Educated midwife business owners and managers use this information so they do not repeat the failed attempts of previous businesses. Midwife business education can also …
What is Effective Communication? Effective communication is key to all clinical care, particularly in the maternity services, where there may be multiple handovers of care. Communication is effective only if the relevant information is actually made available to, and understood by, those who need to act on it. The King’s Fund (2008). Effectively communicating …
Legal defense plays a very important role in the life of every midwife and other healthcare professionals. Why so? Because in midwifery, instances of litigation may occur, despite every midwife’s best effort in providing quality care. Since the relationship that is involved in every midwife to her patient/s is a situation where one person …
