BACKGROUND Small Canadian rural maternity services are struggling to maintain core staffing and remain open. Existing evidence states that having to travel to access maternity services is associated with adverse outcomes. The goal of this study is to systematically examine rural maternal and newborn outcomes across three Canadian provinces. METHODS We analyzed maternal newborn outcomes data t...

BACKGROUND midwives have traditionally had an important role in providing public health messages to women. The range and diversity of the public health remit within maternity services has expanded rapidly over the past decade and maternity support workers as well as midwives are now engaged in public health work in many areas. Given these changes a review of current practice was indicated. OB...

background: according to previous studies, variable percent of nurses suffering from psychological problems or disorders. identifying preventive factors of psychological disorders to be used more frequently and risk factors of these disorders to eliminate them are essential in improving mental health of staff. the present study aims to assess the relationship between motivational function of he...

BACKGROUND In 2009 the Australian government announced a major program of reform with the move to primary maternity care. The reform agenda represents a dramatic change to maternity care provision in a society that has embraced technology across all aspects of life including childbirth. METHODS A critical discourse analysis of selected submissions in the consultation process to the national r...

PURPOSE To discuss cultural safety and critique the provision of culturally appropriate maternity services to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia. PROCEDURE The literature and policies around 'culture' and 'cultural safety' are discussed and applied to the provision of maternity services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote areas of Australia. ...

OBJECTIVES We sought evidence of effectiveness of lay support to improve maternal and child outcomes in disadvantaged families. DESIGN Prospective, pragmatic, individually randomised controlled trial. SETTING 3 Maternity Trusts in West Midlands, UK. PARTICIPANTS Following routine midwife systematic assessment of social risk factors, 1324 nulliparous women were assigned, using telephone ra...

Background: Midwives have a crucial role in caring for women with normal labor. Routine episiotomyhas no benefit and its used is not scientifically supported. Understanding midwives’ perception andexperiences would target the situation.This study aimed to explore perceptions,experienceand reasons routine episiotomy.Methods: A cross-sectional exploratory was conductedin three maternity teaching ...

Background: Preeclampsia /Eclampsia is among the hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. It accompanied by high blood pressure, protein in urine, convulsion, and sometimes oliguria. This condition results higher maternal morbidity mortality worldwide. Objectives: The objective this study was to assess nurses’ level knowledge factors influencing managing preeclampsia Northern Tanzania. Method: analy...

The Maternity Department of the University Hospital of Lille has a total of 107 births capacity per week. The mean birth rate per week in 2011 was of 89. This important difference between birth rate and capacity seems to be related to organization problems regarding maternity rooms’ assignation which is manually recorded. In this paper, we hypothesized that the development of a software solutio...