The profession of midwife is one the oldest in world and considered prestigious because characteristics midwifery practice. ability to reject or control stress result personal life personality formation everyone who exposed various sources stressors. Occupational burnout less common psychologically strong people are communicative, flexible different situations, feel empathy, have excellent prob...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the health and well being of the public. We do this by maintaining a register of nurses and midwives and by setting standards for education and practice. This includes setting standards for administration, dispensing and storage of medicines. Midwives may, in the course of their professional practice, supply and administer on their own...

aim: benefits of skin-to-skin contact (ssc) between mother and her newborn, specifically when it is conducted immediately after birth, have been recognized for more than 40 years. to determine why ssc is not conducted, the present study considers the opinions of the labor working midwifes about the reinforcing factors in ssc immediately after birth in tehran's hospitals in 2012-2013. methods: i...

OBJECTIVE This exploratory study reports on maternity clinicians' perceptions of transfer of their responsibility and accountability for patients in relation to clinical handover with particular focus transfers of care in birth suite. DESIGN A qualitative study of semistructured interviews and focus groups of maternity clinicians was undertaken in 2007. De-indentified data were transcribed an...

OBJECTIVE To investigate agreement with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) definition of collaboration in maternity care by care providers, and to examine their preferences for models of care in order to shed light on the lack of success in implementing collaborative practice. METHODS Maternity care providers completed a survey in Queensland. The final sample consisted o...

BACKGROUND Perineal injury is a serious complication of vaginal delivery that has a severe impact on the quality of life of healthy women. The prevalence of perineal injuries among women who give birth in hospital has increased over the last decade, while it is lower among women who give birth at home. The aim of this study was to describe the practice of midwives in home birth settings with th...

In an effort to reduce infant and maternal morbidity and mortality in developing countries, the World Health Organization has promoted the training of traditional birth attendants (midwives) and their incorporation into the formal health care system. In this paper, we examine several aspects of the integration of traditional and biomedical maternity care that are likely to reflect the quality o...