BACKGROUND Patient safety has been a priority for many societies and health care systems in the last decades. Identification of preventable risks and aversion of potentially unsafe situations and fatal complications in maternity units is life saving. The explicit need to focus on quality of care underpins the aim of the study to initially evaluate the safety culture and teamwork climate in the ...

BACKGROUND midwives have traditionally had an important role in providing public health messages to women. The range and diversity of the public health remit within maternity services has expanded rapidly over the past decade and maternity support workers as well as midwives are now engaged in public health work in many areas. Given these changes a review of current practice was indicated. OB...

The profession of midwife is one the oldest in world and considered prestigious because characteristics midwifery practice. ability to reject or control stress result personal life personality formation everyone who exposed various sources stressors. Occupational burnout less common psychologically strong people are communicative, flexible different situations, feel empathy, have excellent prob...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the health and well being of the public. We do this by maintaining a register of nurses and midwives and by setting standards for education and practice. This includes setting standards for administration, dispensing and storage of medicines. Midwives may, in the course of their professional practice, supply and administer on their own...

aim: benefits of skin-to-skin contact (ssc) between mother and her newborn, specifically when it is conducted immediately after birth, have been recognized for more than 40 years. to determine why ssc is not conducted, the present study considers the opinions of the labor working midwifes about the reinforcing factors in ssc immediately after birth in tehran's hospitals in 2012-2013. methods: i...

OBJECTIVE To investigate agreement with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) definition of collaboration in maternity care by care providers, and to examine their preferences for models of care in order to shed light on the lack of success in implementing collaborative practice. METHODS Maternity care providers completed a survey in Queensland. The final sample consisted o...

BACKGROUND Perineal injury is a serious complication of vaginal delivery that has a severe impact on the quality of life of healthy women. The prevalence of perineal injuries among women who give birth in hospital has increased over the last decade, while it is lower among women who give birth at home. The aim of this study was to describe the practice of midwives in home birth settings with th...

In an effort to reduce infant and maternal morbidity and mortality in developing countries, the World Health Organization has promoted the training of traditional birth attendants (midwives) and their incorporation into the formal health care system. In this paper, we examine several aspects of the integration of traditional and biomedical maternity care that are likely to reflect the quality o...

We would like to thank Kirsty McCance and Sharon Cameron for their article that appeared in the July 2014 Journal issue. We would like to share our experience in Lanarkshire with Journal readers. We concur with the authors’ three key message points. However, the Sexual and Reproductive Health team in Lanarkshire decided to grasp the opportunity to provide immediate contraception for extremely v...

Background Weight management in pregnancy guidelines exist, although dissemination alone is an ineffective means of implementation. Midwives identify the need for support to overcome complex barriers to practice. An evaluation of an intervention to support midwives' guideline implementation would require a large-scale cluster randomised controlled trial. A pilot study is necessary to explore th...