OBJECTIVE in Sweden, acupuncture education is required before midwives can use the method in clinical practice. Courses in acupuncture are usually organised by private individuals or companies, and each health facility decides on the adequacy of the educational package. Therefore, there is no overall standard or quality control for free-standing courses of acupuncture education for midwives. Th...

Introduction Student-generated questions can be a very helpful tool in medical education. The use of this activity can allow the students to feel more involved in the subjects covered and may improve their knowledge and learning. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of question-writing activity as a stimulus factor on learning in midwifery students and determine their perception abo...

BACKGROUND Maternal nutrition during pregnancy affects the health of the mother and the baby. Midwives are ideally placed to provide nutrition education to pregnant women. There is limited published research evidence of Australian midwives' nutrition knowledge, attitudes and confidence. AIM To investigate Australian midwives' nutrition knowledge, attitudes and confidence in providing nutritio...

The development of population policy and health legislation as a result of government, the need for more young, healthy, working and military active population, resulted in the education of all health workers including midwives, legal regulation of their work, increasing their number and training of midwifery profession. With the development of this profession conditions of women giving birth, ...

INTRODUCTION The importance of optimal clinical nursing education in professional skills development is undeniable. In clinical education, nursing students are often faced with problems. Recognizing nursing students' perception on clinical education is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the nursing s...

Background Nursing students in the clinical setting experience a high level of stress. The understanding of people involved in nursing education, from coping strategies of nursing students with clinical stress, is highly important for any kind of planning in this field. Objective To explore the coping strategies of Iranian nursing students with stress in a clinical setting. Methods This qua...

background & aim: modifications in learning systems based on the concepts of self-efficacy and self-esteem are among the suggested strategies to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of two interactive educational workshops with or without standardized patients (sps) on midwifery students' self-efficacy in providing sexual health cou...

FACULTY MEMBERS AND PHD STUDENTS OF FACULTY OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, BASED ON SUCCESSFUL EVIDENCE HEALTHCARE Maryam Razmkhah, Hadi Sharif Moghadam, Soraya Ziaei, Vahideh Zarea, Mohammad Reza Narimani. School of Nursing and Midwifery .Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor, Knowledge and information science, Payame Noor Un...

1 PICU and Children’s Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2 University of Central Lancashire, School of Health, Preston, United Kingdom. 3 Intensive Care Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 4 Intensive Care Neonatology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlan...

Mobbing, defined as sustained harassment among workers, in particular towards subordinates, merits investigation. This study aims to investigate Slovenian midwifery students' (2nd and 3rd year students of midwifery at the Faculty for Health Studies Ljubljana; the single educational institution for midwives in Slovenia) perception of mobbing, since management of acceptable behavioural interrelat...