background: ethical standards of nursing profession emphasize that taking care of patients, showing respectful behavior, and preserving patients’ human dignity are important nursing priorities. furthermore, since time immemorial, humanistic thinkers have always paid close attention to the issues of humanity and human dignity. despite the emphasis of nursing texts on the importance of preserving...

Original Citation – Adamson TE, Watts PA. Patients' perceptions of maternity nurse practitioners. Am J Public Health. 1976 Jun;66(6):585-6. FREE full-text article Contact Information – No information found. Price & Availability – Interview questions printed in original citation. Brief Description of Instrument – Patients of maternity nurse practitioners asked two questions: 1) How did the nurse...

Midwife, Registered Nurse, MSC, PHD(c), Departments of Quality Control, Research and Continuing Education, Elena Venizelou Maternity Hospital, Athens Consultant Neonatologist, PHD, NICU, Donor Human Milk Bank, Elena Venizelou Maternity Hospital, Athens Associate Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, School of Pharmacy, University of Athens Associate Professor of Dietetics and Nutr...

must also be willing to evaluate critically the practices of certified nurse midwives, who might have an even lower rate of intervention in maternity care while they maintain equally high quality.IS Finally, because today's medical environment, despite its shortcomings, has a greater emphasis on cost-effective care, family physicians might have their greatest opportunity to promote the lowinter...

OBJECTIVE To explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on maternity care providers in labor and delivery in a high HIV-prevalence setting in sub-Saharan Africa. DESIGN Qualitative one-on-one in-depth interviews with maternity care providers. SETTING Four health facilities providing labor and delivery services (2 public hospitals, a public health center, and a small private maternity hospital) in Kisum...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of the neonatal care delivered by an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led service at Ashington Hospital, Northumberland. SETTING Maternity service with no resident paediatric medical input. DESIGN Comparison of quality measures on sentinel cases with five comparator hospitals using modified confidential enquiry. RESULTS On six out of seven dimensions,...

Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

gradually being tackled and, if possible, set right; arrangements, too, are made for ensuring the attendance at every confinement of a carefully trained and certificated maternity nurse, and, when desired or required, of a qualified physician, while institutional, nursing, and hospital care is also being provided for any specially difficult or dangerous maternity illness. An example of what is ...