Department of midwifery, Faculty of Midwifery, School of nursing and midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran 2 School of nursing and midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran PhD of Biostatistics, Associate Professor , Medical School, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], Mae...

Zohreh Shahhosseini, Zeinab Hamzeh Gardeshi, Maryam Hajizadeh Valukolaee, Fereshteh Yazdani Khermandichali. Department of Reproductive Health and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Nasibeh Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Sari, Iran; Master Student of Midwifery counseling, Research student Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Nasibeh Nursing and Midwifery Facult...

OBJECTIVE to explore the motivations and beliefs of commencing midwifery students against a background of high course demand and high student attrition. DESIGN a qualitative analysis of student reflective essays. SETTING Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS all commencing midwifery students, in 2008, were invited to participate (n = 41). MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS three primary motivations...

1. Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. M Sc student, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Department of Midwifery, Client Education and Management Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran 4Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Centre, Iranian ...

After reading this chapter you will be able to: • recognise the importance of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery • differentiate major philosophical approaches in the conduct of research and their use in nursing and midwifery services • understand developments in nursing and midwifery research in the context of society, politics and history • understand the links betw...

What are the strengths and limitations of existing Decision-Making Theories as a basis for guiding best practice clinical decision-making within a framework of midwifery philosophy? Each theory is compared in relation with how well they provide a teachable framework for midwifery clinical reasoning that is consistent with midwifery philosophy. Hypothetico-Deductive Theory, from which medical cl...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a national intervention to improve the postabortion care (PAC) content of midwifery education in Nigeria. METHODS A 3-part quantitative assessment was carried out during and post-intervention. The first baseline component developed and examined the intervention to improve teaching capacity and improve the PAC curriculum among 6 midwifery schools that were to...

1Department of Midwifery, Maternal–fetal Medicine Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2Department of Midwifery, Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Centre, Fatemeh Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Student Research Committee, Facu...

This paper analyses the history of the subordination of midwifery to medicine and nursing. With the important exception of Evan Willis' work on medical dominance and Annette Summers' work on the takeover of midwifery by nursing, other histories of Australian midwifery have taken a neutral approach to issue of power and control. The aim of analysing this period is to identify the strategies of p...

This paper reports on research that examined the Nurses' Acts, regulations and current policies of each state and territory in Australia, in order to determine their adequacy in regulating the education and practice of midwifery. This is part of a three-year study (Australian Midwifery Action Project) set up to identify and investigate barriers to midwifery within the provision of mainstream ma...