AIM To examine the employment experiences of older nurses and midwives working in the NHS. METHOD A total of 27 semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with nurses and midwives to identify positive and negative aspects of their working lives in the NHS. The interviewees were selected from a potential pool of 87 nurses and midwives who had consented to be involved in an earlier par...

AIM To examine the workforce, workplace, psychosocial and health characteristics of nurses and midwives in relation to their reported use of sickness absence described as 'mental health days'. BACKGROUND The occupational stress associated with the nursing profession is increasingly recognized and nurse/midwifery absenteeism is a significant global problem. Taking a 'mental health day' as sick...

BACKGROUND Studies introduce maternal and neonatal safety phenomena as important challenges to the public health, particularly in low-income countries. However, few researches are conducted on the identification of safety issues in maternity hospitals in Iraq. It was the first study on nurses' perspectives on safety issues in Kurdistan, Iraq. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to describe nur...

SELF-CONFIDENCE OF PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN IN POSTPARTUM PERIOD: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL 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 Sc...

Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is the best strategy for a successful HIV prevention, care, support service implementation among HIV-negative positive individuals. VCT also recognized as critical component in reduction of risk sexually active young people. This study aims to assess voluntary counseling, testing, utilization amongst student nurses midwives Ghana their perception disclosur...

When a midwifery diploma-level programme was introduced in 2010 in Bangladesh, only a few nursing faculty staff members had received midwifery diploma-level. The consequences were an inconsistency in interpretation and implementation of the midwifery curriculum in the midwifery programme. To ensure that midwifery faculty staff members were adequately prepared to deliver the national midwifery c...

BACKGROUND Midwifery students, clinicians and educators in Australia identified the need for improved feedback for midwifery students whilst they are on clinical placement; in particular formative assessment. The miniCEX or mini-clinical evaluation exercise is one approach to assessment that has been proven valid and reliable in medical education. The aim of this research was to develop, implem...

BACKGROUND The number of nurses able to independently prescribe medicines in England has risen steadily in recent years. AIM To evaluate the adequacy of nurses' educational preparation for independent prescribing and to describe nurses' experiences of their continuing professional development as prescribers in practice. DESIGN AND METHOD Postal questionnaire survey. PARTICIPANTS Random sa...