We read with interest McCance and Cameron’s article reporting the experiences and views of qualified midwives on giving postpartum contraceptive advice in the July 2014 issue of the Journal. We would like to draw readers’ attention to a complementary study that we carried out with final-year student midwives on a 3-year midwifery programme in a UK university. 3 This study reflects McCance and C...

BACKGROUND Culturally secure health care settings enhance accessibility by Aboriginal Australians and improve their satisfaction with service delivery. A culturally secure health service recognises and responds to the legitimate cultural rights of the recipients of care. Focus is upon the health care system as well as the practice and behaviours of the individuals within it. In an attempt to pr...

background : delivering iud services is one of the important competencies that midwifery students must obtain during academic period. as objective structured clinical examination (osce) can be reasonably reliable, valid and objective method for clinical skills assessment, this study was conducted to assess midwifery students` skill in delivering intrauterine device (iud) services using a clinic...

ABSTRACT
 The demand of qualified midwives in their job field encourages the midwifery academy include English language as compulsory subject for students. It is very rare to find ESP books designed students midwifery. This study aimed at developing an material which specified Midwifery Academy Sukma Wijaya Sampang. was carried out require students’ need and interest. conducted by using Re...

Background: Majority of the textbooks for undergraduate midwifery students of Iran are educational resources for obstetricians. Therefore, the topic of Professional Labor Support is not taught well to these students. This study aimed to determine the effect of Professional Labor Support education to midwifery students (based on midwifery textbooks) on satisfaction of women who gave birth under ...

Against a background of increasing concern over the widening theory practice gap and research evidence of problems in providing quality practice education, the English National Board (ENB) commissioned an 18 month study into the role of the teacher/lecturer in practice. This article, after providing a brief overview of the background, literature and methods, outlines the results from the Adult ...

Introduction. The system of assessment of students' performance needs to comprise certain psychometric characteristics, including in particular reliability and validity, so that it can be a highly objective source of knowledge of students' learning outcomes. Aim. Analysis of reliability and validity of the performance assessment system for Midwifery students who started a Bachelor's degree prog...

BACKGROUND The organizational environment and its existing context may deeply affect on empowerment of individuals. In educational institutions as well as other organizations, students are going to be powerful when opportunities for growth and achievement of power are provided for them in learning and educational environments. This study has been carried out to explain the facilitators and impe...

INTRODUCTION The success of university students depends on their ability to utilize time properly and completely. Students are required to learn to manage time so that they are able to apply the same degree of efficiency in the profession they choose after completing their education. METHODS This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to determine nursing and midwifery students' tim...