QUALITY IMPROVEMENT BY CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON IRANIAN NURSES’ EXPERIENCES Jamileh Farokhzadian, Fariba Borhani, Batool Poorchangizi, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri. Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Department of Nursing Ethics, Medical Ethics and law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti Univ...

This paper reports on research that examined the Nurses' Acts, regulations and current policies of each state and territory in Australia, in order to determine their adequacy in regulating the education and practice of midwifery. This is part of a three-year study (Australian Midwifery Action Project) set up to identify and investigate barriers to midwifery within the provision of mainstream ma...

This article examines the politics of midwifery and the persecution of untitled female assistants in childbirth in early republican Peru. A close reading of late colonial publications and the works of Benita Paulina Cadeau Fessel, a French obstetriz director of a midwifery school in Lima, demonstrates both trans-Atlantic and local influences in the campaign against untitled midwives. Cadeau Fes...

With graduation day over and their names and PIN numbers appearing on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, newly qualified nurses will soon be starting their first jobs.

More than 660 nurses have broken the law in the past two years by practising even though their registration has lapsed, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

background: postpartum care at home is a post delivery care method that can be provided by public health nurses, trained health workers, or midwifery nurses. a study conducted to compare effect of two midwife visits at home to usual postpartum care on the healthy behaviors of low-risk iranian mothers. methods: a randomized controlled trial conducted on 200 mothers at a reference center for scre...

AIM We sought to ascertain the nursing and midwifery research priorities at a large private tertiary hospital in Australia. DESIGN A modified Delphi technique with two rounds of questionnaires. METHODS The first round survey was distributed to 448 nurses and midwives with a 19.2% (n=86) response rate. Due to a low response rate in some specialties, the second round of the Delphi was only se...

The above information is essential for midwifery, pediatric and postpartum nurses, so that they can deal with such a situation and guide the mothers as to how to feed their babies. Nurses can help breastfeeding mothers in such clinical situations. They can help breastfeeding to continue by providing frequent maternal–infant contact and should make feeding comfortable for the mother. Furthermore...

The Christian Literature Society for India liave undertaken the translation into the vernacular of the well-known book of Russell Andrews' ' Midwifery for Nurses'. Up-to-date textbooks in the vernaculars for pupil-midwives are not available, and the society, in endeavouring to place this book before the nurses, has taken pains to see that the translation has been done in an easy style which per...