Relationship of Competency of Midwife with Management Management of Newbirth Asphysia in the RegionService Work Health Deli Serdang

Abstract

Competence is a skill based on skills and knowledge supported by work attitude and its application in performing tasks. Newborn asphyxia management is a midwifery service that must be performed by a competent midwife who requires mastery of knowledge, attitudes and skills in critical situations. This research is an observational survey that aims to analyze the relationship of midwives competence (knowledge and attitude) to management of newborn asphyxia management. Population in this research is all village midwife who is in working area of ​​Deli Serdang Health Office which amounts to 68 people. And the entire population is sampled in this study (Total Sampling). Data collection through interviews, questionnaires and observations. Data analysis was done by Chi-Square Test at 95% confidence level. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between midwives knowledge (Ρ = 0.000) with management of newborn asphyxia management. And there is a relationship of midwife attitude (Ρ = 0.047) with management of newborn asphyxia management. The knowledge variable that has the greatest relation to management of newborn asphyxia management compared with midwife attitude variable with Exp (B) value = 16.2. Important conclusions and implications in this study is that it can be assumed that the education and training of management of newborn asphyxia is very supportive in the effort of improving the competence of village midwife in the work area of ​​Deli Serdang Health Department so that the given midwifery service is qualified and the infant mortality due to asphyxia can Prevented.