BACKGROUND The midwifery profession is crucial for a functioning health system aiming at improved maternal and child health outcomes. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) can be used as a tool to understand actors' interactions in the system around midwifery profession for improved maternal and child health. The purpose of this study is to explore how actors connect to promote the Bangladesh's midwif...

Introduction. With recognition of clinical education problems in nursing and midwifery, the people in charge will be able to plan the optimal education programs to promote quality presentation of health services to all persons of the community. Surveying the view points of students and faculty members of nursing and midwifery about clinical education problems were the aims of this study. Meth...

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 study of stressful factors in clinical education for nursing students studying in nursing and midwifery college in khorramabad     saki m [1] *, gholami m [2] , jariani m [3] , asti p [4] , saki m [5]     received: 23 oct , 2011 accepted: 5 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : clinical education is the main part of nursing education and without it training efficient and competent n...

BACKGROUND Research on the mal-distribution of health care workers has focused mainly on physicians and nurses. To meet the Millennium Development Goal Five and the reproductive needs of all women, it is predicted that an additional 334,000 midwives are needed. Despite the on-going efforts to increase this cadre of health workers there are still glaring gaps and inequities in distribution. The ...