INTRODUCTION This paper reviews the literature exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women accessing antenatal care in Australia, alongside literature comparing standard models of antenatal care against midwifery continuity models of antenatal care. Attention is given to evidence based benefits of midwifery continuity care models, and how these benefits can better a...

Our purpose was to expand knowledge on the process and outcomes of midwifery care. Narrative analysis was used to interpret stories provided by midwives to illustrate their practice and recipients of midwifery care about their experience. A purposive sample of 14 midwives and four recipients of midwifery care was recruited as a subsample from a prior Delphi study on midwifery practice. Three br...

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...

BACKGROUND A midwife is a medical professional who has a nursing license, and is also licensed as a midwife with one additional year of education. In this globalization era, a midwife's role is increasing in importance for women and children's health care worldwide. PURPOSE The primary purpose was to analyze midwifery education programs in Korea and other nations. The secondary purpose was to...

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 midwifery continuity of care has been shown to be beneficial to women through reducing interventions and other maternal and neonatal morbidity. In Australia, numerous government reports recognise the importance of midwifery models of care that provide continuity. Given the benefits, midwives, including new graduate midwives, should have the opportunity to work in these models of care...

In the United Kingdom diabetes is now the most common, pre-existing medical disorder in pregnancy [Jincoe A. Diabetes: monitoring maternal and fetal wellbeing. Br J Midwifery 2006;14(2):91-4], and still continues to have associated risks for the mother, fetus and neonate [Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health. Diabetes in pregnancy: are we providing the best care? Findings of a na...

Background—Changing Childbirth (1993), a report on the future of maternity services in the United Kingdom, endorsed the development of a primarily community based midwifery led service for normal pregnancy, with priority given to the provision of “woman centred care”. This has led to the development of local schemes emphasising continuity of midwifery care and increased choice and control for w...

1Department of Midwifery, Maternal–fetal Medicine Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2Department of Midwifery, Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Centre, Fatemeh Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Student Research Committee, Facu...

BACKGROUND Changing Childbirth (1993), a report on the future of maternity services in the United Kingdom, endorsed the development of a primarily community based midwifery led service for normal pregnancy, with priority given to the provision of "woman centred care". This has led to the development of local schemes emphasising continuity of midwifery care and increased choice and control for w...