According to this paper's synthesis of research, three constituents of ideal midwifery care emerge. First, a dignity-protective action takes place in a midwife's caring relationship with a childbearing woman at high risk and includes mutuality, trust, ongoing dialogue, enduring presence, and shared responsibility. Secondly, the midwife's embodied knowledge is based on genuineness to oneself and...

OBJECTIVE To compare midwifery and medical care practices and measure optimal perinatal outcomes using a new clinimetric instrument. DESIGN Prospective descriptive cohort design. SETTING A large, inner city obstetric service with medical and midwifery services. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred seventy-five of 400 consecutively enrolled patients were participated (25 excluded due to extreme risk...

Care for women in labor in the United States is in a period of significant transition. Many intrapartum care practices that are standard policies in hospitals today were instituted in the 20th century without strong evidence for their effect on the laboring woman, labor progress, or newborn outcomes. Contemporary research has shown that many common practices, such as routine intravenous fluids,...

The Midwifery Model of Care includes monitoring the physical, psychological, and social well-being mother throughout childbearing cycle; providing with individualized education, counseling, prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor delivery, postpartum support; According to WHO, midwives are found competent provide evidence based normalcy-facilitating maternity care. Models for...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care by a primary midwife during the antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum periods has been recommended in Australia and many hospitals have introduced a caseload midwifery model of care. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of caseload midwifery on women's satisfaction with care across the maternity continuum. METHODS Pregnant women at low risk of complica...

BACKGROUND national and international trends have identified concerns over the ability of health and social care workforces in meeting the needs of service users. Attention has increasingly been drawn to problems of recruiting and retaining professionals within higher education; however data in relation to the midwifery profession is scant. AIM to examine the perceptions and experiences of mi...

OBJECTIVE it is not known how acupuncture is used in midwifery care in Sweden and what kind of requirements health-care providers have for midwives and acupuncture training programmes. The aims of this study were to survey indications for the use of acupuncture in midwifery care in Sweden, and to examine the criteria and requirements used for purchase of acupuncture education programmes. DESI...

OBJECTIVE to research the role of midwives in Australia from the perspectives of women and midwives. This study was part of a commissioned national research project to articulate the scope of practice of Australian midwives and to develop national competency standards to assist midwives to deliver safe and competent midwifery care. DESIGN a multi-method approach with qualitative data collecte...

BACKGROUND Midwifery-led care during labour and birth in the UK is increasingly important given national commitments to choice of place of birth, reduction of unnecessary intervention and improving women's experience of care, and evidence on safety and benefits for 'low risk' women. Further evidence is needed on safety and potential benefits of midwifery-led care for some groups of 'higher risk...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . BScN, MScN, PhD, Associate Professor, Nursing Care Research Center and School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected], [email protected] . (Corresponding author) BScN, MScOH, DrPH, Professor, Nursing Care Research C...