Challenging midwifery care, challenging midwives and challenging the system

Quality care in challenging times.

Every 72 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, an incurable affliction that kills at least 66,000 people annually, making it the nation's seventh leading cause of death. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 percent of cases (5.1 million people), according to the Alzheimer's Association, Chicago. Dementia describes a group of symptoms--...

Nutrition and Food Sciences: Fascinating and Challenging

Probiotics: Challenging the Traditional Modes of Action

A trial was conducted to evaluate the performance of broiler birds which supplemented with a commercial inactivated probiotic. Four hundred and fifty day old broiler chickens were allocated into 3 treatments with 6 replicates each. Each replicate was placed on clean wood shavings in floor pens receiving feed and water ad libitum. In treatment 1, feed was supplemented with 500 g/ton of a heat-in...

Challenging births. 1: A training scenario for midwives.

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2001 Midwifery Today 58:46-47. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. This article is based on the 'Challenging Births' workshop which I led at Midwifery Today conferences. In this class, I give a clinical scenario to...

The wandering of families with schizophrenia patient in a challenging support system and covid 19 crisis

Introduction: schizophrenia is a chronic condition that leads to debilitating consequences, is associated numerous challenges. So families need long-term psychosocial support. Methods: the study was performed by interpretive descriptive method. Using purposive sampling, 30 participants participated in the study. Data were collected through individual interviews and coded, codes with similar the...