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Consultation or consult
Professional advice from a qualified, competent source and making decisions about shared responsibilities for care provision. It is dependent on the existence of collaborative relationships, and open communication, with others in the multidisciplinary health care team (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2013, p. 16).
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2018) Midwife standards for practice
Retrieved from https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/Pro...
Consumer
A person who uses, or potentially uses health services, including their family and carers. Consumers may participate as individuals, groups, organisations of consumers, consumer representatives or communities.
Health Consumers Queensland (2019) For Consumers
Retrieved from http://www.hcq.org.au/for-consumer-representatives/
Continuing competence (midwifery)
Ability of midwives to demonstrate they have maintained their competence in their current area and context of practice.
Continuing professional development
Means by which members of the professions maintain,
improve and broaden their knowledge, expertise and competence, and develop the personal and professional qualities required throughout their professional lives.
Continuity of care experience (midwifery)
Ongoing midwifery relationship between the student and the woman from initial contact in pregnancy through to the weeks immediately after the woman has given birth, across the interface between community and individual health care settings. The intention of this experience is to enable students to experience continuity with individual women through pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period, irrespective of the carers chosen by the woman or the availability of midwifery continuity of care models. In terms of the student of a re-entry to the register midwifery program, it is likely that the relationship between the student and the woman will begin late in the pregnancy and include antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care experiences.
Continuity of care model
A model of maternity care where women have a primary midwife assigned to them throughout pregnancy, labour and birth and the postnatal period. Each midwife has an agreed number (caseload) of women per year and acts as a second or "back-up" midwife for women who have another midwife as their primary carer.
Contractual arrangements/ Agreement
A shared formal agreement, or deed of agreement, between the education provider and any health service providers where students gain their professional experience.
Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
Peak intergovernmental forum in Australia, comprising the Prime Minister, State and Territory Premiers and Chief Ministers and the President of the Australian Local Government Association. Its role is to manage matters of national significance or matters that need co-ordinated action by all Australian governments.
Council of Australian Governments ABOUT COAG
Retrieved from https://www.coag.gov.au/about-coag
Country of birth
The name of the country you were born in.
Country of Initial registration
The country where you first obtained registration as a nurse/midwife.
