Australian College Of Midwives Inc
Business Services in Canberra

An organization for the midwifery profession. We produce a unified voice for the midwifery profession, encourage midwives to reach their packed potential and set professional practice and education standards. We are guided by research evidence that pregnant women and mothers gain from having access to midwifery care throughout their childbearing experience. We are a national organization with members in all states and territories. The role of the Board is to ensure we are carefully governed and that our members’ contributions are wisely used. The Board is also responsible for setting our strategic direction and for ensuring this is followed through. We also have a 8member Council which consists of an elected member from each state and territory. The Council brings issues from the members in the states and territories, provides advice to the Board and undertakes specific activities, including managing the ABM Awards program. We have a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who is responsible for the operational management of our organization, including directly employing and managing the staff, and ensuring the strategic directions are implemented. We also have a number of Advisory Committees and Busy Groups that provide advice and promote the labor of our organization.

Midwifery Practice Review (APR) supports you to regularly reflect on your portfolio, your midwifery practice coming professional development plans. A Midwife is a qualified health professional, trained and committed to providing care, education, advice and support to women and their families during pregnancy, labor and birth, and the hasty postnatal period. However, midwives need to be supported in an enabled environment to bear the best care to women and babies. Importantly, in the area of reform, we will continue to promote the implementation of midwifery continuity of protection across the country, ensuring every women has onetoone protection in labor and advocating for Birthing on Country programs. Apply for CPD Recognition points for your event. We bear endorsement of products that may be of relevance to midwives, women and maternity services. As a notforprofit membership organization, our focus is on supporting our members throughout their midwifery career providing access to resources and evidence based information, encourage to network and build community with their midwifery colleagues, and opportunities to prosper professionally so that they can give the superior care plausible to the mothers and babies of Australia. Our membership, member services, events, education, resources, merchandise have a specified Rewards Points value. Members are awarded Rewards Points as you spend on our products and member services. News and information relating to models of midwifery protection such as private practice and continuity of midwifery care. The ABM recognizes that every midwife undertakes learning that is individual to their needs and as such offers a expansive variety of opportunities for midwives to engage and address their CPD requirements in each registration year. Reflections from midwives, midwifery students and consumers. This will then be reviewed by the project working group and submitted for endorsement by the ABM Board. Reward Points are only accumulated against the purchase of ABM goods and member services and may only be redeemed against the purchase of ABM goods and services. Yes, recipients of the award must be stuffed financial members of College and be energetic in a local branch. The nomination must also be supported by at least two supporting references (such as letters of urge from peers, students, women or managers). If you are an ABM member that is not on the Council, Board or Branch Committee and you have a midwife you would like to nominate, you can do so as lengthy as your second nominator is from either the ABM Council or Board or on one of the Branch Committees. Care from a known midwife is often referred to as midwifery continuity of care, midwifery group practice or caseload midwifery. Concern from a known midwife, or a little group of midwives, enables women to develop a relationship with their protection providers. The overall median cost of beginning per woman was AU566.74 less with continuity of midwifery care than with standard care. Continuity of concern with a known midwife is appropriate for women, their babies, families and even the taxpayer. If you have a midwife you would like to nominate and you are not a member of the ABM Council or Board or on one of the Branch Committees, you honest need to make your suggestion known to one of those members so that they can work with you to process and comply the nomination. Yes, the LMACM is open to any midwife who has had Packed financial membership of the ABM for at least 25 years previous the award nomination. For example, we present scholarships to members to promote them in accessing continuing professional development activities.