evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers

evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers     mirzakhani k [1] *, jahani shorab n [2] , golmakani n [3] , tafazoli m [4] , ebrahimzadeh s [5]     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : suitable midwifery skills could prevent many deaths of maternal, fetal, and neonatal . midwifery education has a profound impact on the quality of the above skills . therefore, this study aimed to d etermine clinical skills of graduated midwives from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty who are working at the mashhad health care centers .   materials & methods : present research would be a kind of cross – sectional investigation . subjects of this research were the graduated midwives in the recent three years and employed at mashhad health care centers ( 30 subjects) and their supervisors ( 3 0 subjects). the research tools were “midwife self assessment questionnaire and “evaluation questionnaire by the supervisors “. the collected data was analyzed statistically.   result : 72/8% of graduates reported their curriculum had a sufficient training program on the management of high-risk condition faced to mothers and children. 56/9% of supervisor were evaluated the skills of graduated in managing high-risk condition of mother and child as expected as or higher than expected. midwifery graduates performance evaluation with regard to themselves compared to the supervisors evaluation was higher (p <0 / 01). midwifery graduates and their supervisor evaluations in managing high-risk condition were evaluated lower than the low risk condition (p <0 / 05).   conclusion : midwifery curriculum requires good plan to obtain more qualified midwifery clinical skills for the management of high-risk conditions may reduce the gap between education and practice. keywords : evaluation, clinical skills, midwives     address: school of nursing and midwifery, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran tel: ( +98) 5118591511   e-mail: [email protected]   [1] instructor of midwifery, nursing and midwifery faculty, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran (corresponding author (   [2] instructor of midwifery, nursing and midwifery faculty, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran   [3] instructor of midwifery, nursing and midwifery faculty, mashhad university of medical sciences mashhad, iran  [4] instructor of midwifery, nursing and midwifery faculty, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran  [5] instructor of statistics, nursing and midwifery faculty, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran