We would like to draw your readers’ attention to an innovation information and communications technology project from the Otago region of New Zealand. The School of Nursing and School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand saw potential to work with an existing local organisation (OtagoNet) that was using video conferencing for high school educational purposes within the rural ...

Midwifery is one of the universal professions. At the end of the nineteenth century, midwives in the United States were disenfranchised from the mainstream. A concerted effort was waged by male physicians to characterize midwifery practices as unscientific while simultaneously preventing midwives from obtaining formal education. Although midwifery in the United States continued, it was limited ...

In 2009, the World Health Organization published a document proposing global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and midwives, and noted that although nearly 35 million nurses and midwives make up the largest cadre of health care workers globally, they are rarely involved in high level decision-making and policy development (1). The development of the standards addressed ...

Talat Khadivzadeh, Mina Ardaghi, Khadijeh Mirzaii, Seyed Reza Mazloum. Assistant Professor, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Graduate, MSc in Midwifery, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Associate Professor, Department of Midwifery, Schoo...

The 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife has presented many challenges following World Health Organisation declaring a world pandemic due to COVID-19 on 11th March 2020. One these relates preparation undergraduate nurses midwives for largely clinically based profession within tertiary setting. Comprehensive educational registration practice is at core quality midwifery care leading optimisation o...

Hanieh Salehi Pourmehr, Azizeh Farshbafkhalili, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Jamileh Malakouti, Somayyeh Rafiee, Mozhgan Abdi, Nayyer Jafarilar. PhD by research student of Neurourology-Neuroscience Research Center, MSc in midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PhD by research of nutrition, MSc in midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabri...

Fahimeh Sehati Shafaie, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Marzieh Bagherinia. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Midwifery, Students’ Research Committee, Faculty of Nursing an...