Bibliographic information
GuidelineWHO recommendations: optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting
Year of Publication2012
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
New
AUXILIARY NURSES deliver maternal intrapartum care (including labour monitoring, e.g. using a partograph; monitoring fetal heart rate by auscultation; deciding to transfer for poor progress; delivery of the baby) We recommend against this option.
Not recommended