Midwifery Week 2025: Clinical Competencies for Suturing and Perineal Repair

This presentation introduces recently developed clinical competencies for suturing, post-birth assessment, and repair of birth-related tissue trauma. Detailed skill-specific clinical competencies provide an innovative framework for learning, teaching, and evaluation of skill acquisition. Explore how competencies can improve birth equity for clients and across the midwifery profession, ensuring that all midwives have the education and skills to be confident and competent when assessing the need for and performing wound approximation after birth. Examine how clinical competencies present new ways for learning and teaching of suturing skills.

Presented by Nell Tharpe, CNM, CRNFA, MS, FACNM