Genetic counselling in preconception and prenatal care provided by midwives, an international review

Prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling.

Traditionally genetic counselling has been made up of two parts. The first is the establishment of an accurate diagnosis of the disorder, usually in the child of the parents availing themselves of counsel but sometimes in the consultand himself. The second is the calculation of recurrence risks through knowledge or the best possible assumptions about the mode of inheritance of the disease. When...

Comparison of labor and delivery care provided by certified nurse-midwives and physicians: a systematic review, 1990 to 2008.

BACKGROUND Advanced practice nurses (APNs) in the United States could expand access to high-quality health care, particularly for underserved populations. Yet, there has been limited synthesis of the evidence related to their effectiveness as compared with other providers. The study reported here, part of a larger study that examined all four types of APNs, compares the labor and delivery care ...

Pnm-11: The Role of Health informatics, Nurses and Midwives on Education in Reproductive Health and Prenatal Care

Background: Employing informatics in the health care systems can improve the quality of health care through the effective use of information systems. Health informatics is potentially a powerful and dynamic method for providing health education. Reproductive health is a necessary part of health for individuals, couples and families. It deals with different features of health care, such as: impr...

Ending the genetic discrimination barrier: regaining confidence in preconception, prenatal, and neonatal genetic testing.

Preconception counselling resource for women with diabetes

Women with diabetes need to plan for pregnancy if they are to reduce their risk of poor pregnancy outcome. While care providers have focused on setting up specialist pre-pregnancy planning clinics to help women prepare for pregnancy, the majority of women do not attend, entering pregnancy unprepared. A major barrier to accessing this care, and a consequence of poor preconception counselling, is...