IUDs: Maternity Nurses’ Practices of Infection Control Measures

Using ‘appreciative inquiry’ in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing the spread of infection. OBJECTIVE To explore the opinions of health personnel on health system factors related to infection control and their perceptions of change in a sample...

Hormonal contraception and IUDs and HIV infection

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Breaches in infection control practices.

Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses

Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses

This handbook has the merit of having been written from the nurse's point of view. The style is simple and direct and the difficult task of making the more scientific aspects of the subject intelligible to pupil midwives has been met by the use of illustrations from nursing experience. In this respect the book possesses a distinct advantage over several of the midwifery handbooks in current iis...