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! Reminders & Updates Midwifery care for ALL Midwives provide care to all residents of Ontario regardless of their OHIP or immigration status. Clients who are residents of Ontario are entitled to midwifery services and Midwifery Practice Groups are paid for this care. Midwifery Practice Groups are now able to access funding for the necessary lab services and other care related to pregnancy for uninsured clients. These tests include: referrals for anaesthetic, obstetric and other physician care, surgical assist (for caesarean section), lab work (including prenatal genetic testing), and ultrasound. This important aspect of midwifery care in Ontario is also rooted in the Code of Ethics of the CMO in that midwives provide care which respects individuals’ needs, values and dignity, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status or disability. Updated Continuing Competencies Policy The College’s Registration Regulation Previously, requires members to maintain ongoing comfor the requirements these were outpetence in three areas: Neonatal Resuscitation, Obstetrical Emergency Skills and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. lined in three separate policies, and now have been merged into one revised policy in order to make the information more accessible. Highlights of policy changes: • Requirements for NRP include Advanced (all sections complete). • Emergency skills section of the policy has been updated to include the currently accepted courses in Canada as well as the required skills that must be included in the course. A full version of the Policy is available on our website. Fetal Movement Algorithm Revision The December 2015 Member Communiqué had an error in the reproduction of the SOGC’s Fetal Movement Algorithm (Fig. 3 Pg. 4). The sentence “All women WITH risk factors: Awareness of fetal movements beginning at 26-32 weeks” should read “All women WITH risk factors: daily monitoring/counting of fetal movements beginning at 26-32 weeks”. Please see the December 2015 Member Communiqué for the corrected version. Volume 8, Issue 3 | December 2015 Volume 9, Issue 1 April 2016 9