Introduction: Midwifery care in the health care system treats women during pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and newborns and babies with the goal of maintaining or achieving the best health, and also intervenes in the field of gynecology and family planning. Clinical pathways can be defined as a documented sequence of clinical interventions, placed in an appropriate time frame, written and approved by a multidisciplinary team. They help a patient with a specific condition or diagnosis move step by step through clinical management to a desired outcome. Clinical pathways represent ideal patient pathways. They indicate a certain sequence of medical treatment, which they also document. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis was to review the literature and focus on the role of the midwife in the implementation of quality midwifery care in the delivery room with the help of the clinical pathway. Work methods: A descriptive work method was used with a qualitative approach of reviewing domestic and foreign professional literature in the period from 2012 to 2022. Results: Six articles were included in the literature review. Midwives take care of parents and newborns with their wide spectrum of knowledge, competences and skills. The goal of the clinical pathway is to support midwives in promoting physiological birth, with the ultimate aim of reducing unnecessary obstetric interventions, it helps the midwifery approach by supporting physiological birth, less documentation and provides support to graduate midwives in making clinical decisions. The clinical pathway for a normal birth guides the midwife/midwife in dealing with a healthy pregnant woman, a healthy woman in labor with a healthy newborn, with a physiological postpartum course and enables the recognition of complications. At each step, it is possible to leave the clinical path for a normal birth to a more intensive medical treatment. Discussion and conclusion: Clinical pathways can be focused on specific perinatal episodes, such as postnatal care or full midwifery care from admission to discharge. Childbirth is a complex, multifaceted event with complex outcomes. Clinical pathways in the delivery room increase midwives' confidence in supporting normal birth and legitimizing the normal midwifery approach to birth. Through the clinical pathway, midwives get the feeling that they have freedom in midwifery, so there is a sense of greater trust, especially among young graduate midwives.
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