1. SEMINAR
ON
Independent
practice
issues in nursing
and independent
nurse midwifery
practitioner

3. Outlines
Independent practice
issues
• Introduction
• Definition of
independent
practitioners
• Key issues
• Areas of independent
nursing practice
• Responsibility of
independent nursing
practitioner
Independent nurse
midwifery practitioner
• Introduction
• Definition of midwife
• Independent midwifery
practice packages.
• Standards for midwifery
practices.
• Challenges for Indian
midwives.

4. Introduction

5. Definition
• NURSE PRACTIONERS
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are registered
nurses who have graduate level nursing
preparation as a nurse practitioner at the
master’s or doctoral level and perform
comprehensive assessments and promote
health and the prevention of illness and injury.

6. KEY ISSUES TO CONSIDER -
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
1. Conflict of interest
2. Endorsement
3. Advertising
4. Fees
5. Informed consent

7. Contiiii……
1. Documentation
2. Confidentiality
3. Other issues
 Liability protection
 Networking
 Business or legal council

8. AREAS OF INDEPENDENT NURSING
PRACTICE
• CONSULTANCY
• GERIATRIC NURSING
• MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING PRACTICE
• PAEDIATRIC NURSING
• PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
• Women Health Nursing
• School Health Nursing

9. RESPONSIBILITY OF A INDEPENDENT
NURSE PRACTIONER
• UNIVERSAL PRECAUTION
• UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICES

10. • VERIFYING RECIPIENT
ELIGIBILITY
• PRIVATE DUTY NURSING
REQUIREMENTS

11. • EMERGENCY AND
BACK-UP PROCEDURES
• WRITTEN STATEMENT
OF RECIPIENT RIGHTS

12. • CONTRACTS WITH
RECIPIENT AND/OR
FAMILY
• REQUIRED
INFORMATION FOR
MEDICAL RECORD
• TERMINATING SERVICE
TO A RECIPIENT

13. Independent nurse
midwifery
practitioner

14. Independent midwifery practice
package
• Access to a midwife 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week.
• Provide women centered care antenatal,
intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care.
• Antenatal care in privacy.

15. • Continuity of care through the labour.
• Postnatal care up to 6 weeks.
• Knowledgeable breastfeeding support.

16. Standards for midwifery practice
STANDARD I
• Midwifery care is provided by qualified
practitioners

17. STANDARD II
• Midwifery care occurs in a safe environment
within the context of the family, community,
and a system of health care.

18. STANDARD III
• Midwifery care supports individual rights and
self-determination within boundaries of
safety

19. STANDARD IV
• Midwifery care is comprised of knowledge,
skills, and judgments that foster the delivery
of safe, satisfying, and culturally competent
care.

20. STANDARD V
• Midwifery care is based upon knowledge,
skills, and judgments which are reflected in
written practice guidelines and are used to
guide the scope of midwifery care and
services provided to clients.

21. STANDARD VI
• Midwifery care is documented in a format
that is accessible and complete.

22. STANDARD VII
• Midwifery care is evaluated according to an
established program for quality management
that includes a plan to identify and resolve
problems.

23. STANDARD VIII
• Midwifery practice may be expanded beyond
the ACNM core competencies to incorporate
new procedures that improve care for
women and their families.

24. Challenges for Indian midwives

25. Practice challenges
• Midwives should be recognized as independent
practitioners with the rights and responsibilities
regarding scope of practice. Authority and
accountability that all independent by share.
• Health organization should use to allow quality
and standard based midwifery care.
• Midwife should ensure case consultation,
collaboration and referral provided to a woman
without interruption and for overall benefits.

26. Challenges for law regulation
• State regulators should enact laws which are
based on entry to practice standards on
successful completion of midwifery educational
programme.
• Health care system should develop privileging
and credentializing mechanisms for midwives
that are consistent with professional standards,
recognize established process that permits
midwives to build upon competencies within
their statutory scope of practice.

27. Educational challenge
• Direct entry midwife programme to create a
new category of professional midwife.
• The midwifery profession should identify,
develop and implement mechanism to recruit
midwives who reflect Indian population with
their competencies.
• It is needed to develop categories of midwives
as per their expertise in their midwifery.

28. Challenges for research activities
• It is required to continually grow and evolve in
order to provide evidence based midwifery
practice which will help to practice
independently.
• Analysis of midwifery practice in view of
consumers or women who receive care.

29. Challenges for policy makers
• Some of the most pressing issue regarding
midwifery go beyond the current scope of
regulatory bodies, professional associations,
educators and practitioners.
• Policy makers are to be convinced for the
importance of independent practice.
• Research efforts have found the midwifery
makes a positive contribution to the health of
the women and babies.

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