Based on ethnographic research regarding public policy and grassroots organizing for midwifery in Virginia, this article explores how medical discourses around appropriate health care practices intersect with state discourses about what practices are considered "respectable" versus "pathological" for its citizens. In recent legislative debates about the legalization of direct-entry midwifery, m...

AIM To identify the current barriers to developing midwifery as a primary health-care strategy in Jordan and to explore the strategies to overcome these barriers. DESIGN An exploratory design using an action research approach was undertaken. Workshop discussion groups and reflection were used to collect the data. A thematic approach was taken for the analysis. PARTICIPANTS Data were collect...

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,...

1 Chair in Palliative and Supportive Care and Director, Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia 2 Cancer Council WA Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 3. Program Manager, Palliative Care, WA Cancer and Pa...

This article describes the Inuulitsivik midwifery service and education program, an internationally recognized approach to returning childbirth to the remote Hudson coast communities of Nunavik, the Inuit region of Quebec, Canada. The service is seen as a model of community-based education of Aboriginal midwives, integrating both traditional and modern approaches to care and education. Develope...

evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers     mirzakhani k [1] *, jahani shorab n [2] , golmakani n [3] , tafazoli m [4] , ebrahimzadeh s [5]     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : suitable midwifery skills could prevent many deaths of maternal, fetal,...

BACKGROUND The organizational environment and its existing context may deeply affect on empowerment of individuals. In educational institutions as well as other organizations, students are going to be powerful when opportunities for growth and achievement of power are provided for them in learning and educational environments. This study has been carried out to explain the facilitators and impe...

This article presents findings from a study of a clinical pathway for normal labour (Normal Labour Pathway) implemented in Wales, UK. The study was conducted between 2004 and 2006. The pathway aimed to support normal childbirth and reduce unnecessary childbirth interventions by promoting midwife-led care. This article focuses on how the pathway influenced the inter-professional relationships an...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate caseload midwifery in a relatively deprived and ethnically diverse inner-city area. DESIGN AND SETTING semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 24 women from diverse ethnic backgrounds, 12 of whom had received caseload care and 12 women from an adjacent area who had received conventional maternity care in a large inner-city maternity unit. Framework analysis was a...