background: balloon bionic midwifery has been applied in clinical obstetrics in china for 10 years, although played a certain role in controlling and improving the quality of obstetrics and caesarean section rate, but some questions have not been resolved. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of airbag midwifery. materials and methods: primiparas (2410 cas...

Background & aim: Empathy is an important component of establishing effective communication and achieving optimal clinical results. Establishing empathic communication with pregnant women improves satisfaction, mutual trust, participation in treatment, control over delivery process, and maternal health. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of empathy training on empathic skills...

Objective The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service education programmes (diploma and bachelor's) in selected midwifery skills from the list of midwifery competencies of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM). Des...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the midwifery curriculum in Iran according to ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education. Methods: In this comparative study the Iranian midwifery education curriculum in the part of ‘Competency in provision of care during pregnancy was compared against ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education (2010) by thre...

BACKGROUND Balloon bionic midwifery has been applied in clinical obstetrics in China for 10 years, although played a certain role in controlling and improving the quality of obstetrics and caesarean section rate, but some questions have not been resolved. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of airbag midwifery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Primiparas (2410 ca...

BACKGROUND Delivering IUD services is one of the important competencies that midwifery students must obtain during academic period. As Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) can be reasonably reliable, valid and objective method for clinical skills assessment, this study was conducted to assess midwifery students' skill in delivering intrauterine device (IUD) services using a clinical...

The 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife has presented many challenges following World Health Organisation declaring a world pandemic due to COVID-19 on 11th March 2020. One these relates preparation undergraduate nurses midwives for largely clinically based profession within tertiary setting. Comprehensive educational registration practice is at core quality midwifery care leading optimisation o...

a survey on the theory and practice gap in mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty     jahani shoorab n [1] *, golmakani n [2] , mazluom sr [3] , mirzakhani k [4] , azhari s [5] navaiyan a [6]     received: 24may, 2011 accepted: 12september, 2011     abstract   background & aims : according to who, annually, 515,000,000 maternal mortality (mmr) occurs in the world. however, the majority of them a...