Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional perspectives on clinical management, steep hierarchies, and lack of administrative support for change. We review principles of high reliability as they apply to communication in clinical care and discuss principles of effective comm...

One morning recently, I was leaving the maternity ward of my local hospital. I had just delivered a healthy baby boy, mother and baby were doing fine, and it seemed I would make it to the office in time to see my first patient. Life was good. As I rounded a corner, I met the nurse manager for the maternity unit. After we exchanged pleasantries, her eyes narrowed. “You’re the doc responsible for...

Nurse workload is all activities, actions taken by a nurse while the on duty in hospital service unit. The purpose of this literature to identify which method more effective and efficient measure nurses. Article review was carried out through several electronic databases including Google Scholar, Pubmed with keyword "nurse workload", inclusion criteria included articles published between 2015 2...

This quantitative study is to collect data of the knowledge of nurses about the Service for Assistance to women victims of sexual violence (SAMVVIS), in a public maternity hospital in Teresina, PI. Data was collected in February and March of 2008 from 61 nurses. The results show that the majority are aware of the service (90.14%) but the affirmative percentage decreases when asked about how it ...

We are pleased to announce that the Women’s Advanced Maternity Fellowship for Rural Practitioners is now being offered through generous donations from Weyerhaeuser, Bank of Montreal, Bell Canada, Provincial Health Services Authority, Zellers, and Interior Health Authority. These organizations have offered support to further the provincial mandate of BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre to prov...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine if there are significant differences in birth outcomes and survival for infants delivered by certified nurse midwives compared with those delivered by physicians, and whether these differences, if they exist, remain after controlling for sociodemographic and medical risk factors. DESIGN Logistic regression models were used to examine differences between certified ...

BACKGROUND In high-income countries, great disparities exist in the organizational characteristics of maternity health services. In Finland, primary maternity care is provided at communal maternity health clinics (MHC). At these MHCs there are public health nurses and general practitioners providing care. The structure of services in MHCs varies largely. MHCs are maintained independently or mer...