Midwifery, the first holistic profession in the world in which “care” has always been a women-centered phenomenon. It is a socially constructed practice that has gone through many historical transitions. Many of these have involved social controversies in terms of the meaning of care, the scope of its practice, and its standardized skills. The purpose of this paper is to explore and critically ...

BACKGROUND The philosophy of midwifery education is based on the 'Women-centred care' model, which provides holistic care to women. Continuity of care (CoC) is integral to the concept of holistic women-centred care and fundamental to midwifery practice. The objective of this study was to determine any differences in students' understanding of midwifery care philosophy between students who under...

Zambia has a shortage of nurses and midwives spanning from early 2000 the situation is more dire in rural areas, where many young are reluctant to live. The skill-based concern healthcare context characterised by global health indicators such as high maternal mortality ratio, under-five HIV prevalence rate, life expectancy lower than average. In order address above challenges, decentralised pla...

Most midwives are aware of the need to collect clinical practice data and of its usefulness in supporting the care they provide, which contributes to healthy outcomes for mothers and babies. For the individual midwife, there is more than one easily accessible, standardized data collection instrument from which to choose. However, despite these choices, in an American College of Nurse-Midwives (...

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES IN OSTEOARTHRITIS MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Mozhgan Behshid, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Alireza Irajpoor. PhD student, Research Center of Medical Education, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing & Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences; PhD, Professor, Ta...

This paper aims to discuss the roles of Educators and Clinicians in effective precepting Nursing Midwifery Students Clinical Setting. It aids both experienced new preceptors become more teachers delivery their students, interns newly employed nurses while maintaining standard & clinical area. The discussed vast literature surrounding phenomena preceptorship nursing. enlightens concept estab...

  This investigation was undertaken to evaluate the " effect of the student nurses" personal pain experience on assessment of pain intensity and selection of appropriate number of pain interventions. Participants in this research were 150 female student nurses who were studying in Razie Nursing and Midwifery college of Kerman university of medical sciences and health services. Data collection ...

This paper reviews content related to the first breastfeed in textbooks commonly used in midwifery education programs in Australia. Few scholars have critically examined the adequacy of such information for evidence-based midwifery practice. Five midwifery textbooks were chosen for content analysis specifically related to: skin-to-skin contact for newborn adaptation; orientation and coordinatio...

Background. Concept analysis has identified three domains in the competent use of birth technology – interpersonal skills, professional knowledge and clinical proficiency – and tentative criteria for birth technology competence. Aim. Fieldwork was undertaken to observe, confirm and explore pre-defined attributes of birth technology competence. Method. The Swartz-Barcott and Kim (2000) hybrid mo...