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MINOR GROUP 223: NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PROFESSIONALS |
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Nursing and midwifery professionals apply medical concepts
and principles relating to the delivery of babies and to nursing
of the ill, injured or disabled, and of mothers and their
newborn babies.
Tasks performed usually include: helping medical doctors in
the practical application of preventive and curative measures
and dealing with emergencies in their absence; providing
professional nursing services, care and advice for the sick,
injured, physically and mentally disabled and others in need of
such care, and directing auxiliary nursing staff; delivering or
assisting in the delivery of babies, and instructing mothers in
baby care. Supervision of other workers may be included.
It should be noted that, depending on the specific tasks and
degree of responsibility in executing them, as well as on the
national educational and training requirements, it may be
appropriate to classify some or all of the occupations that are
identified here into Minor group 323, Nursing and midwifery
associate professionals.
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the
following unit group:
2230 Nursing and midwifery professionals
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