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...

evaluating the application of safe suction criteria by nurses working in intensive care unit in urmia     amirzade n [1] *, baghaei r [2] , feizi a [3] , khorsandi f [4]     received: 19 jan , 2013 accepted: 12 mar , 2013   abstract   background & aims : suction is considered as an essential process to keep the trache tube open for patients under mecanical ventilation.howevereit has detrimental...

Perineal rupture is a tear that occurs in the perineum during labour. almost all first deliveries and not uncommon subsequent deliveries. The occurrence of perineal caused by maternal factors (parity, birth spacing baby's weight), improper delivery leadership, history delivery. Forceps extraction, vacuum device trauma episiotomy. This case study describes how its healing process Mrs. M, 21 year...

Background & aim: Perinatal mental health problems have been demonstrated to impact upon maternal, and fetal/child outcomes. Despite the global evidence and a policy-driven responsibility for identification of these problems, research demonstrates that student midwives/midwives lack knowledge and confidence to assess, identify, and manage them. A similar context is evident for learning disabili...

a standardized shift handover protocol: improving nurses’ safe practice in the area of medication and intravenous line in intensive care units     malekzadeh j [1] , etezadi jam t* [2] , mazlom sr [3] ,taseiri ar4     received: 21 apr, 2013 accepted: 25 jun, 2013   abstract   background & aims : poor communication among health care providers includes risk factors that should always take into ac...

developmental millstones in children with normal, low, and very low birth weights.     abdeyazdan z [1] , ehsanpour s [2] *, hemmati e [3]     received: 22 may , 2013 accepted: 11 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in recent years with the development of nicus, survival rates of vlbw and lbw infants has increased in many countries including iran. there is concern that this increased su...

Communication for informed choice is particularly challenging in clinical settings such as direct-entry midwifery, where the care model embraces diverse therapies and forms of knowledge. We identified three discursive moves (explanation, invocation, and evaluation) that Ontario midwives and clients used in making claims about proposed interventions. The analysis was informed by an understanding...

BACKGROUND Midwifery support and care led by midwives is the most appropriate strategy to improve maternal and newborn health. The Government of Ethiopia has recently improved the availability of midwives by scaling up pre-service education. However, the extent to which graduating students acquire core competencies for safe and effective practice is not known. The purpose of this study was to e...

BACKGROUND Clinical decision-making was initially studied in medicine where hypothetico-deductive reasoning is the model for decision-making. The nursing perspective on clinical decision-making has largely been shaped by Patricia Benner's ground breaking work. Benner claimed expert nurses use humanistic-intuitive ways of making clinical decisions rather than the 'rational reasoning' as claimed ...