Professional Behaviour and its impact on care.

Professional Behaviour and its impact on care.

1. Maintaining accurate documentation

   • Why is it important?
     • Gives Clarity
       • Patient must be able to understand
     • Allows action to be takes
     • Keeps records up-to date
     • Allows health professionals to communicate over the patient
       • Handover
       • Referral
       • Shared care
     • Professional accountability
       • Legally
     • Confidentiality of patient
   • NMC Code Ch 10
     • Complete records ASAP
       • Rcord if they are made at a later date
     • Identify any risks or problems
       • Steps taken to deal with them
       • Other Colleagues have the information recorded
     • Complete records accurately and without falsification
       • appropriate action if someone has not kept these requirements
     • Attribute entries to yourself
       • Paper/Electronic
         • Clearly dated/timed
       • No abbreviations, jargon or speculation
     • Records kept securely
     • Collect, treat and store all data and research findings appropriately
   • Records include anything that makes reference to the care of the patient
     • See NHS Professionals- Record keeping guidelines

2. Role of a Midwife

   • Aim of Maternity care
     • Where does this expectation come from?
       • NMC
     • providing safe, high-quality, accessible care
       • women and their families
     • To provide...
       • antenatal
         • Potential problems
           • detailed history risk taking and risk assessment
         • Antenatal screening and scanning
       • intrapartum (birth)
         • covers the onset of labour through to immediate care after birth
           • Obstetric unit/Team based care
           • Home birth
           • Midwifery led-unit
           • High risk births and low risk models of care
       • post natal care
         • Community Midwives
         • After care
           • Physical
           • Phsychological
           • Emotional
           • Social
           • Mother and Baby
             • Screening
               • Hearing
               • Blood spot screening
             • Examinations
             • Breastfeeding
   • Promotes well being
   • Encourage and empower people
     • to share decisions abou their care
     • Women and their families
   • Respect,support and document a perons right to refuse care
   • enable all women and their families to have a positive and safe experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
   • advocate for women so that their voices are heard

3. Positive impact on care

   • What does the literature say about this?

4. The woman and her family

   • What role do they play?
     • How can they be supported