Shokofe Darkhor, Fatemeh Estebsari, Jamshid Yazdani Charati. Master student Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences &, Tehran, Iran; PhD of Health Education & Promotion, Department of Health, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; AssociateProfessor, Department of Biostatistics,...

INTRODUCTION Shifting HIV treatment tasks from physicians to nurses and midwives is essential to scaling-up HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa. Updating nursing and midwifery regulations to include task shifting and pre-service education reform can help facilitate reaching new HIV targets. Donor-supported initiatives to update nursing and midwifery regulations are increasing. However, there are...

PURPOSE To explore the levels of continuing education management in hospitals according to their size, and to investigate problems in the management of continuing education of nurse midwives by chief nurses in community hospitals. METHODS The target population was 128 chief nurses, 103 of whom (80.47%) returned the questionnaires. Data were collected using a questionnaire that had been tested...

When a midwifery diploma-level programme was introduced in 2010 in Bangladesh, only a few nursing faculty staff members had received midwifery diploma-level. The consequences were an inconsistency in interpretation and implementation of the midwifery curriculum in the midwifery programme. To ensure that midwifery faculty staff members were adequately prepared to deliver the national midwifery c...

BACKGROUND Education, regulation and association (ERA) are the supporting pillars of an enabling environment for midwives to provide quality care. This study explores these three pillars in the 73 low- and middle-income countries who participated in the State of the World's Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014 report. It also examines the progress made since the previous report in 2011. METHODS A self-comp...

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...

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...

The first author of this paper, a Thai midwife, conducted a feminist action research project aimed at collaboratively developing a model for group-based antenatal education in Thailand. Should a midwife wear a uniform when facilitating midwife-led group-based antenatal education sessions in the hospital setting? This paper reports on a single example of reflection in and on midwifery practice t...

Several authors1-3 have referred to the resignation, in May 1840, of Robert Little from the chair of midwifery and diseases of women and children at Inst: seemingly he had disagreed with the faculty and joint boards (of managers and visitors) over the requirements for the diploma which he issued to his students. Since this was the only whiff of serious discord between Inst and one of its medica...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a national intervention to improve the postabortion care (PAC) content of midwifery education in Nigeria. METHODS A 3-part quantitative assessment was carried out during and post-intervention. The first baseline component developed and examined the intervention to improve teaching capacity and improve the PAC curriculum among 6 midwifery schools that were to...