Midwives work together with pregnant women as partners. Their focus is to encourage, look after and counsel pregnance, birth and pueperium.
On midwife´s own responsibility is to conduct physiological births and to take care of the newborns and babies. Midwives monitor all processes in these periods with available clinical and technical recources and take necessary steps if something doesn´t develop normally.
A midwife assumes responsibility for health care of the women, their families and the society.
The bachelor degree obtains the authority for a profesional working in all the explained areas.
gynaecology and obstetrics; midwifery; pregnancy, birth & pueperium; newborns; health care; multidisciplinarity; soft skills; Research and development; professional practical training
How to become a midwife?
Anyone wishing to start a career as a midwife in Upper Austria starts with attending the bachelor programme midwifery at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria in Linz. The six-semester programme finishes with a Bachelor of Science in Health Studies (BSc) degree. The training combines theoretical knowledge with intensive practical training, starting with prenatal care, supporting the family during birth and accompanying the mother and infant in the first weeks afterwards.
