OBJECTIVE To explore the practice of midwifery within a busy urban tertiary hospital birth setting and to present findings on the relationships between nurses and midwives in providing maternity care. DESIGN/METHOD A focused ethnography on midwifery practice conducted over 2 years (2004-2006) in a teaching hospital serving a primarily Medicaid-eligible population in Northern California. Data ...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to identify the source and the transmission pathway for a Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS) outbreak in a maternity setting in Italy over 2 months, during 2014; to implement appropriate control measures in order to prevent the epidemic spread within the maternity ward; and to identify the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) epidemi...

BACKGROUND Prevention is considered effective in combating the obesity epidemic. Prenatal environment may increase offspring's risk for obesity. A child starts to adopt food preferences and other behavioral habits affecting weight gain during preschool years. We report the study protocol of a pragmatic lifestyle intervention aiming at primary prevention of childhood obesity. METHODS/DESIGN A ...

INTRODUCTION This research takes up the standpoint of nurses who provide maternity care to women and families in six different communities of one geographically isolated area of British Columbia, Canada. This first report (phase one of the study) focuses on describing the complexities of rural nursing work and identifies some possibilities for change that would better support nurses in their wo...

This study was assessed utilization of health information technology in provision maternal and child care among nurses the University Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar. The research design employed for descriptive survey design. sample one hundred ninety-six (196) registered nurses/midwives from population providing healthcare maternity ward, children’s pediatric labour antenatal clinic postna...

on 30th November but were weak, and labour was described as slow till 4 a.m. on 1 st December, when the nurse detected a swelling posteriorly and sent for the resident. He found the os very high up, the head presenting above the brim and difficult to feel, and a swelling posteriorly below presenting part. Not being sure of his diagnosis he sent for an ambulance to transfer the patient to the Ma...

A survey is reported of infant feeding practice at the time of discharge from a single maternity ward. It is shown that a change in the attitude of nursing staff increased the number of mothers breast feeding their infants and eliminated the practice of giving the infants formula feed complements. This change in attitude, however, did nothing to prevent the rapid decline in lactation after leav...

This study had as objective to investigate the result and the colour gradation of red reflex test in newborns (NB). It is a exploratory, quantitative study and the sample was 180 NB from maternity ward in Fortaleza-CE. From this, 156 showed result "no altered" and 24 "suspect". About the aspect of red reflex, 144 NB showed the same coloration in the two eyes, in 35 of this, the colour was red, ...

Primary health care (PHC) constitutes the fundamental pillar of Cuba's universal public health system. The doctor-and-nurse teams next door, community polyclinics, maternity homes, mental health centers, seniors' day centers-all form part of a network of over 12,000 facilities dedicated to resolving some 80% of population health problems, compared to under 200 facilities at other levels of care...