BACKGROUND In Ghana, between 1,400 and 3,900 women and girls die annually due to pregnancy related complications and an estimated two-thirds of these deaths occur in late pregnancy through to 48 hours after delivery. The Ghana Health Service piloted a strategy that involved training Community Health Officers (CHOs) as midwives to address the gap in skilled attendance in rural Upper East Region ...

This article describes the Inuulitsivik midwifery service and education program, an internationally recognized approach to returning childbirth to the remote Hudson coast communities of Nunavik, the Inuit region of Quebec, Canada. The service is seen as a model of community-based education of Aboriginal midwives, integrating both traditional and modern approaches to care and education. Develope...

Curationis provides a forum for cutting-edge theories and research models related to the exploration of issues experienced best practices nurses midwives so as improve nursing education, administration community within Africa.

The Community Ambassador Program (CAP) in the Mid-Atlantic States Region places Kaiser Permanente-employed nurse practitioners, midwives, and physician assistants to work in the safety-net clinics and share best practices through a long-term community collaboration. The authors conducted an evaluation of 18 safety-net clinics that participated in the CAP in 2012. The Community Ambassadors provi...

This photo creation is entitled " Indung Beurang practice in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar Documentary Photography" aims to visualize the Practice community procession after childbirth. The existence of traditional midwives may disappear if there no successor, or its gone unnoticed. In other words, their begins erode with presence modern Midwives. method applied this undergraduate thesis theory journali...

OBJECTIVE to explore the experiences and attitudes of midwives, junior paediatricians (SHOs), GPs, and mothers to the examination of the newborn baby. To provide an appreciation of their views on several issues, in particular the purpose and value of the examination, who is thought to be appropriate to carry it out and when and where it should take place. DESIGN qualitative using semi-structu...

OBJECTIVE The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is generally recognised as a valid, reliable, cost-effective and simple tool to implement within routine care, however there is controversy regarding the acceptability of screening for depression. This paper aims to examine how acceptable women find (1) completing a battery of questionnaires, including the EPDS and (2) receiving feedback...

findings, Evenden dismisses almost completely. These texts, predominantly written by male medical practitioners, are, in her view, of little use to illuminate the world of female birth practice. She argues that male practitioners had hardly any obstetrical practice, and, with regard to the theoretical basis, their treatises present only an untidy mixture of useless Galenic or humoral theory, ma...

PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to analyze the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of the nurses and midwives about the early diagnosis of breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out at 9 family medical centers (FMCs) and 1 community health center (CHC) in Bingol; the population of this research consisted of 25 midwives and 38 nurses. The protocol f...

BACKGROUND Despite the effects of midwives on the health of family and community through promotion of maternal and child health indicators, they are not in the position of professional decision making. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the barriers to achieve professional management positions by midwives. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional study....