HLTENN046 — Contribute to maternal and infant health care
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What an assessment for HLTENN046 must cover
30 assessable components: 2 elements (10 performance criteria), 2 performance evidence and 18 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Work as part of the maternity health care team.
- 1.1Assist registered midwife by performing delegated aspects of care for mother and newborn infant.
- 1.2Assist midwife to prepare mother to adopt safe practices in caring for newborn infant.
- 1.3Record observations of mother and newborn infant and report abnormal observations to midwife.
- 1.4Apply midwifery terms used during pregnancy and in postpartum care to contribute to care of newborn infant.
- 1.5Document, report and escalate variances in care progress.
- 1.6Provide delegated aspects of care for mother and newborn infant to support maternal and newborn infant health.
2 Support mother and newborn infant to meet identified goals.
- 2.1Evaluate progress of mother and newborn infant towards goals in plan of care.
- 2.2Review and discuss unmet goals in plan of care.
- 2.3Assist the midwife to meet care goals and to support mother to interact with newborn infant.
- 2.4Assist midwife to educate mother on delegated aspects of newborn infant health and offer information about available support services.
Performance evidence
- provide maternity care for two mothers and their newborn infants in the workplace, in collaboration and consultation with midwife and multidisciplinary health care team involving: umbilical cord care, preparation of feeding formulas, dressing newborn infant and changing newborn infant nappies, safe practice for bathing, holding, settling and positing newborn infant for sleeping, breastfeeding and care of mother’s nipples
- The tasks must be undertaken in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) professional practice standards, codes and guidelines.
Knowledge evidence
- role of midwife in antenatal and postpartum care
- anatomy and physiology and associated terminology related to pregnancy, birth, postnatal period, lactation and care of newborn infant
- breastfeeding support
- World Health Organization (WHO) code for breastfeeding, development and establishment of breastfeeding and benefits of breast milk and breastfeeding
- primary health care approaches to care planning
- community support services for maternal and newborn infant care
- community support services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal and newborn infant care including Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO)
- common abnormalities of newborn infant
- common obstetric emergencies
- artificial formula use: preparation volumes to be consumed according to age, methods for sterilisation of equipment
- process of grief associated with infant death and care of mother and family
- impact of cultural practices and beliefs in relation to birthing
- impact of cultural practices and beliefs in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities birthing
- interactions with newborn infant: individual differences in newborn infant needs for rest and sleep and rest patterns, signs of stress, distress and pain in newborn infant, safe and unsafe practices for use with newborn infants, practices and routines used by families and underlying cultural and personal rationale, emotional, physical and language development of newborn infant, attachment theory, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and safe sleeping techniques, brain development in newborn infant, newborn infant screening
- principles for recognising a deteriorating mother and newborn infant and raising issues of concern
- umbilical cord care
- role of Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and principles of cultural safety.
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