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Midwifery Interview Exam Questions and Answers
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Midwifery Interview Exam Questions andAnswers
What is the Nursing-Midwifery Council? - Answers --Inspire pride and public trust
-Can investigate and take action against a nurse/ midwife to protect patients
-Ensure that nurses, midwives and nurse associates have the skills they need to care
for people's safety, with integrity, expertise, respect and compassion
-Encourage openness and learning among healthcare professionals
-Set standards for how students should be taught
-Keep a register so you can who can work as a midwife/ nurse/ nurse associates in the
UK (690,000)
What does the NMC not do? - Answers --Regulate hospitals or other healthcare settings
-Regulate healthcare assistants
-Set levels of staffing
-Represent or campaign on behalf of nurses or midwives
What are the NMC values? - Answers --Value people
-Value fairness
-Value transparency
NMC principles - Answers --Be accountable
-Be fair
-Learn and improve
-Be collaborative
-Be dynamic
-We are only as good as our people
-Value for money
NMC revalidation - Answers --Every 3 years
-450 working hours
-Reflect on practise and discuss with another midwife -Show confirmer how you have
met requirements
Define the role of a midwife - Answers -A person who is recognised as a responsible
and accountable professional who works in partnership with women to give necessary
support, care and advice during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period
Midwife vs. Paediatric Nurse - Answers --Want to work with women going through a
natural process rather than young children who are ill
, Antenatal - Answers -Before birth, during pregnancy
Breech - Answers -Baby lying bottom up
Cephalic - Answers -Baby lying head down
Engaged - Answers -Babies head has moved down into the mother's pelvis ready for
birth
EDD - Answers -Expected delivery date
Gestation - Answers -Number of weeks pregnant
Gravida - Answers -Number of times you've been pregnant
Primigravida - Answers -First pregnancy
Multigravida - Answers -Been pregnant more than once
Longitudinal - Answers -Fetus is lying with its spine parallel to the mother's spine
Parity - Answers -Number of babies you've already had
Postnatal - Answers -After birth
Placenta - Answers -Afterbirth
Vertex - Answers -Unborn baby is lying head down in the uterus
Day in the life of a midwife - Answers --Usually begins at around 7:15am/pm
-Normally a 12 and a half hour shift- 3/4 a week
-This allows for a 30 minute handover when the midwife would be allocated who they're
going to look after
-If the midwife is looking after someone who is already in labour then they are usually
their sole patient, however, the midwife may care for 2/3 women if they may need to be
induced or in hospital if they're unwell (i.e hbp, gestational diabetes etc)
-Midwife also works on antenatal and postnatal wards where she will normally care for
7/8 women per shift- up to 16 patients
-During the day a midwife may also find that they have to counsel women, work in
multidisciplinary teams, neonatologists, social services, pharmacists, breastfeeding
support
Why do you want to be a midwife? - Answers -The ability to watch a family grow and
change is something I feel that I will find highly rewarding. Birth is something I feel that
is so powerful that I would never be able to get bored of. In addition, as midwifery is
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