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...

The use of computers in the delivery of health care has significantly improved the way health service is delivered to clients and patients in the world. Despite the importance of computing to the delivery of health service, developing countries have not greatly benefited from it. Nursing informatics has been in existence and part of academic curriculum for the past 2 decades in some advanced co...

We used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to estimate deaths averted if midwifery was scaled up in 78 countries classified into three tertiles using the Human Development Index (HDI). We selected interventions in LiST to encompass the scope of midwifery practice, including prepregnancy, antenatal, labour, birth, and post-partum care, and family planning. Modest (10%), substantial (25%), or universal ...

BACKGROUND The Japan Academy of Midwifery developed and disseminated the '2012 Evidence-based Guidelines for Midwifery Care (Guidelines for Midwives)' for low-risk births to achieve a more uniform standard of care during childbirth in Japan. The objective of this study was to cross-sectional survey policy implementation regarding care during the second stage of labor at Japanese hospitals, clin...

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...

The maternity reform agenda within Australia has seen a considerable shift in the last decade towards recognition of the role of the midwife and promotion of midwifery care. The current legislative changes and focus on providing woman centred models of care have created unprecedented opportunities for midwives to rise to the challenge and work to the full scope of practice of a midwife. Changes...

OBJECTIVE To compare maternal and neonatal birth outcomes and morbidities associated with the intention to give birth in two freestanding midwifery units and two tertiary-level maternity units in New South Wales, Australia. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. PARTICIPANTS 494 women who intended to give birth at freestanding midwifery units and 3157 women who intended to give birth at tertiary-...

AIM The project Addressing Inequalities in Health: new directions in midwifery education and practice (Hart et al. 2001) was commissioned by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (ENB). Here, we draw on those research findings to consider current midwifery policy and practice in England. BACKGROUND Little guidance on providing equality of care exists for midwiv...

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...

If the needs of future midwifery practitioners are to be met it is essential that health-care education is evaluated to ensure that learning opportunities are relevant, dynamic and aligned with professional policy recommendations. In 2004, midwifery lecturers from Bournemouth University (BU) carried out an evaluation of four specific elements of the student practice and education experience wit...