Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Management, Amol Faculty of Nursing and Midwi...

This paper describes a multidisciplinary project of curriculum development and implementation at one university. Universal learning concepts for six health care disciplines in women's health, including nurse-midwifery, are being piloted in an online classroom environment. This multidisciplinary team approach to education distributes the work load, invites experts to share resources, and avoids ...

Niall McCrae, Lecturer, and Katerina Kuzminska, Postgraduate Nursing Student, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London, chart the influences of Nightingale's Poor Law infirmary reforms.

OBJECTIVE Safe midwifery staffing levels on delivery suites is a priority area for any maternity service. Escalation policies are tools that provide an operational response to emergency pressures. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of using a scoring system to contemporaneously assess the required staffing level based on demand and use this to determine delivery suite escalatio...

Habib Shareinia, Forough Rafii, Payam Sarraf, Mahnaz Seyedalshohahadaee. Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Social Development & Health Promotion Research Centre, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran; Professor, Center for Nursing Care Research, Medical surgical Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran Universityof Medical Sciences,...

the diagnostic value of three fetal movements counting in one hour by mother in the diagnosis of decreased fetal movements kamalifard m[1], ghojazadeh m[2], abbasalizadeh sh[3], ghatrehsamani f[4], rabiei l[5]* received: 1 jun, 2012 accepted: 25 aug, 2012abstractbackground & aims: fetal movement counting is a method that used by the mother to quantify her baby's movements. since 1970s a va...

Mojgan Lotfi, Fariborz Roshangar, Ahmad Mirza Aghazadeh, Elnaz Asghari, Elmira Aghaee. Department of MedicalSurgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Department, Paramedical Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Candidate for Ph.D. nursing, Tabriz University of Medical Scienc...

effect of aromatherapy with essential damask rose oil on anxiety of the active phase of labor nulliparous women     kheirkhah m [1] ,setayesh valipour n* [2] ,neisani samani l [3] ,haghani h [4]     received: 4 may, 2013 accepted: 16 jul, 2013    abstract  background & aims : anxiety in women during labor is the most common emotional reactions and undesirable effects on the fetus and the mother...

Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi, Mina Malary, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Soghra Khani, Mehdi Pourasghar. Assistant professor, Department of Reproductive Health and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Assistant professor, Department of Reproductive Health and Midwifery, Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Assistant professor, Health Sci...