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Excess gestational weight gain: an exploration of midwives’ views and practice

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2012
Background Excess gestational weight gain (GWG) can affect the immediate and long term health outcomes of mother and infant. Understanding health providers’ views, attitudes and practices around GWG is crucial to assist in the development of practical ...
Willcox Jane C   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Midwifery practice in a Ghanaian referral hospital: experiences using magnesium sulphate for women at risk of eclampsia

open access: yesSexual & Reproductive Healthcare
Objective: Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal mortality globally. Magnesium Sulphate is the recommended treatment to prevent seizures, yet its use remains inconsistent in settings like Ghana.
Isabella Garti
doaj   +1 more source

“Midwives are heroes of the country”: qualitative evaluation of a midwifery education program in South Sudan

open access: yesFrontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
BackgroundCountries affected by armed conflict have higher maternal mortality than stable settings. South Sudan has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world, with an estimated 789 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
Shiromi M. Perera   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tanzanian midwives’ clinical practices and experiences in caring for women with antepartum hemorrhage: a critical incident technique study

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Antepartum hemorrhage (APH) is an obstetric emergency that complicates pregnancy worldwide and continues to lead to hemorrhagic conditions in parts of Tanzania.
Anastazia Emil Dinho   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elementos constitutivos da formação e inserção de profissionais não-médicos na assistência ao parto Factors in training and participation in childbirth care by non-physicians

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2002
O estudo teve como objetivos identificar a parteira, segundo a concepção de profissionais da área de saúde, e desvelar os pressupostos ideológicos que justificam sua formação.
Maria Luiza Gonzalez Riesco   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

The Textual Standardization of Midwives' Professional Relationships

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2003
This article develops a rhetorical analysis of a selection of documents pro-duced by the College of Midwives of Ontario for regulating the profession of midwifery.
Philippa Spoel, Susan James
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering Midwives and Obstetric Nurses

open access: yes, 2021
Empowering Midwives and Obstetric Nurses is a practical approach to understanding the health of women and newborns. It supports learning and prepares readers for the challenges faced in contemporary midwifery healthcare.

core   +1 more source

Profession‐Related Accreditation Requirements in Australia Regarding Anatomy Teaching: A Web‐Based Desktop Audit

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For effective and safe practice, health professionals need an understanding of functional anatomy. Registration boards, councils or self‐regulating professional associations determine the standards, codes, graduate competencies and education program accreditation requirements which inform health curricula development and content.
Anita Zacharias   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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