J Korean Soc Matern Child Health.  2023 Apr;27(2):119-134. 10.21896/jksmch.2023.27.2.119.

A Job analysis of Hospital Midwives: A DACUM Analysis

• Kim Y
• Lee S
• Park J
• Lee S
• An M
• Kim B

• KMID: 2542193
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.21896/jksmch.2023.27.2.119

Abstract

Purpose
This study aimed to analyze the tasks of midwives who lead natural childbirth in hospitals using the DACUM technique.
Methods
Data were collected from 42 hospital midwives between August 23 to October 12, 2022, and the importance, frequency, and professional difficulty of hospital midwives' tasks were assessed. The collected data were analysed using the IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 22.0 program as the average and standard deviation for the importance, difficulty, and frequency of performance the analyzed tasks. The importance, difficulty, and frequency of performance each task were indicated as high, medium, or low,; furthermore, the importance and difficulty were multiplied and analyzed using the coefficient of determination. Result: Midwives’ tasks in natural childbirth in hospitals were classified into 8 duties, 138 tasks, and 49 task elements. Duties were classified into ‘before childbirth,’ ‘during childbirth,’ ‘after childbirth,’ ‘management of high-risk pregnant women,’ ‘goods management,’ ‘administrative work,’ ‘self-development,’ and ‘newborn care.’ The most important and difficult tasks with the highest coefficient of determination were performing neonatal resuscitation if necessary (11.25), transporting and managing emergency patients (10.46), requesting hospitals to transfer patients in case of emergency (10.43), and transferring patients to a tertiary hospital in case of maternal of neonatal emergency (10.30).
Conclusion
In this novel study in Korea, the role of a midwife in a hospital for natural childbirth were defined, and task according to duties were analyzed.

Keyword

Certified nurse-midwife; Natural childbirth; Task analysis

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  Fig. 1. Educate position correction for breech presentation.

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