Please note the Care Certificate applies to England only.
A discussion on a cultural issue with multiple impacts exploring the effects of FGM in Eritrea, Africa, and the difficult obstetric challenges that the practice presents to midwives.
This study focuses on a traumatic childbirth in Eritrea and its consequences in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Midwives are increasingly interested in making changes to their practice and exploring the effect of these changes. However, the formal process of research training to enable them to develop the necessary skills in this area often appears daunting.
In this article the impact, if any, infertility treatments have on the work of midwives is discussed. First, some of the social and ethical issues around assisted fertility treatments are outlined.
This is report of a meeting of The Royal Society of Medicine's Forum on Maternity and the Newborn on 21 February 2008. The sessions were chaired by the forum's president Mr Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Dr Chandrima Biswas, obstetric specialist registrar.
By Monica Healthcare’s clinical specialist Karnie Bhogal and research fellow Indu Asanka Jayawardane
By Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital’s team midwife Christine Lovat.
This paper aims to ascertain whether there is evidence to support the widespread introduction of postnatal clinics by reviewing government policies, looking at the national and local responses to this system and by making use of current best practice in caring for individual patients as...
This article is the first of two, which discuss the important notion of choice within maternity services.
This paper provides an account of some of the findings from a larger study looking at the factors that cause stress to student midwives.
The study addresses the apparent lack of research into socially and culturally sensitive pictorial representations of breastfeeding. It explores the views of pregnant women and new mothers on a range of breast- and bottle-feeding images.
This paper explores the interface between midwifery and education at one London NHS Trust through the experiences of a lecturer practitioner.
This paper will describe a brief overview of the skin and its functions, compare the skin of a full term newborn baby to that of adult skin and will then discuss the current evidence and opinions of experts to support best practice for baby skin care. This information will then assist the...
Midwifery is an ever-changing profession, whose public image may be at variance with the reality of the role. Different approaches and priorities have resulted in midwives practising in very different ways, and with differing philosophies of care
A report of a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Forum on Maternity and the Newborn. The meeting was chaired by the Forum’s president Mr Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Dr Patricia Livsey, head of the child development department at London’s City University
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