OBJECTIVE To assess variations in adherence to guidelines for management of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) among midwives. METHODS A multicentre vignette-based study was e-mailed to a random sample of midwives from 145 maternity units in France. They were asked to describe how they would manage the PPH described in 2 case-vignettes. These previously validated case-vignettes described 2 different...

OBJECTIVES This review explored the extent to which the role of midwives in nutrition education during pregnancy has been reported in the literature and areas requiring further research were identified. REVIEW METHOD A review of the literature was undertaken. Articles included in the review were published in English, in scholarly journals, and provided information about the knowledge, educati...

BACKGROUND Midwives are one of the most important health care providers and meeting their professional educational needs can be effective in maternal and child health promotion. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the midwives' perspectives towards their educational needs. METHODS In this cross-sectional study which was conducted in 2012 in Sari, North of Iran, 223 midwives during ...

BACKGROUND Episiotomy remains a routine procedure at childbirth in many South-East Asian countries but the reasons for this are unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of, attitudes towards and experience of episiotomy use among clinicians in Viet Nam. METHODS All obstetricians and midwives who provide delivery care at Hung Vuong Hospital were surveyed about their practi...

BACKGROUND Midwifery profession is required to bring solutions to problems and a midwife is expected to be an assertive person and to develop midwifery care. This study was planned to examine the relationship between assertiveness and problem-solving skills of midwives. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted with 201 midwives between July 2008 and February 2009 in the ...

In order to improve the knowledge and skills of midwives at health facilities and those based in villages in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, three in-service training programmes were carried out during 1995–98. A scheme used for both facility and village midwives included training at training centres, peer review and continuing education. One restricted to village midwives involved an internship p...

INTRODUCTION This article focuses on an unexpected finding of a research project which explored the experience of being a traditional midwife. The unexpected finding was that traditional midwives often perceive skilled (professional) birth attendants to be abusive of both them and the women who are transferred to hospital for emergency obstetric care. METHODS Eighty-four traditional midwives ...

Objective To assess factors linked with job satisfaction of Australian nurses and midwives. Design Descriptive survey. Setting Public hospital, aged care facility and community health centres. Subjects A total of 562 enrolled and registered nurses and midwives were selected by convenience sampling when they attended professional conferences. The return rate was 41.4 per cent. A sample size of 5...

OBJECTIVE The midwife assisting a birth has a considerable influence on the woman's experience of the birth. The aim of this study was to investigate the experience of the midwife's professional skills among women in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden who chose a planned home birth. DESIGN AND SETTING All known home birth midwives were asked to inform the mothers about the project and invit...

After the passing of the 1902 Midwives Act, a growing proportion of women were delivered by trained and supervised midwives. Standards of midwifery should therefore have improved over the first three decades of the twentieth century, yet nationally this was not reflected in the main outcome measures (stillbirths, early neonatal mortality and maternal death). This paper shows that there was a di...