This is partly attributable to place of delivery: 37% of women deliver at home (Ndiaye & Mohamed, 2006). For the poorest quintile, 70.2% deliver at home, compared with only 5.7% for the richest. In terms of attendants at the birth, 51.9% are attended by ‘skilled personnel’ (doctor, nurse, midwife or auxiliary midwife). Again, rates are closely linked to socio-economic group. Only 7.5% deliver w...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The main aim of the study was to discover if a midwife home visiting programme has a significant effect on the prevalence of health problems and breast feeding behaviour of mothers who delivered normally and their healthy fullterm newborn babies, during a period of 42 days after delivery. Another aim was to compare the mothers', the midwife's, and the doctor's findings of preva...

Women have helped each other in childbirth from time immemorial; indeed, until relatively recently such attendance remained a female domain in which men very rarely played a part. Generally the midwife was the senior woman in the community, commonly a married woman or widow who had herself given birth. With the gradual development of towns and cities came the specialisation of occupations, incl...

In the United States, approximately 35,000 births (0.9%) per year occur in the home. Approximately one fourth of these births are unplanned or unattended. Although the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that hospitals and accredited birth centers are the safest settings for birth, each woman has the right to make a medically informed decision about delivery. Importantl...

Clinical academic career pathways for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals are a strategic priority NHS England, there has been significant investment in the National Institute of Health Research integrated clinical programme non-medical healthcare professionals. Nurses, face numerous barriers to successfully building career. For those outside programme, approaches varied often driv...

AIM To describe career pathways of consultant nurses/midwives and identify postholders views on key factors in role initiation, development and progression to inform future development and appointment of nurse/midwife consultants in National Health Service Scotland. BACKGROUND Nurse/midwife consultants represent the highest levels of clinical practice. Given the Scottish Executive Health Depa...

abstract background: since nursing and midwifery students avoid taking care of the diseased patients and taking care of the patients with aids can be influenced by their level of knowledge, the present study aimed to define the association between students’ knowledge and their tendency to take care of hiv patients. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 210 s...