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Reducing neonatal mortality rate with nurse‐midwives

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 1971
ABSTRACTNewborn health indices were measured before, during, and after a demonstration nurse‐midwife program introduced to relieve a health manpower shortage at a county hospital in rural California. During the program, prenatal care increased, and prematurity and neonatal mortality rate decreased at the county hospital.
B S, Levy, F S, Wilkinson, W M, Marine
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Spectators & spectacles: nurses, midwives and visuality

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2006
Aim.  In this paper we reflect on how linear perspective vision influences the practice of nurses and midwives and to advance understanding of clinical practice in technologically intensive environments through examination of drawings by nurses and midwives and through critical analysis.Background.
Barnard, Alan, Sinclair, Marlene
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Third-trimester ultrasound for nurse-midwives

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1993
Obstetric ultrasound has become well integrated into management of pregnancy, labor, and delivery. An increasing number of nurse-midwives have expanded their roles to include the use of this technology. This article reviews the basic principles of ultrasound physics, the content of ultrasound examinations, and the performance of basic scans.
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Political participation behaviors of nurse-midwives

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1991
Political participation, which is promoted by nurse-midwifery leaders, is a widely studied topic in this country. Yet, there is little data that describes political participation among health care providers such as nurse-midwives. The descriptive findings presented here are from a national survey of a random sample of members of the American College of
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Challenges and opportunities for nurse-midwives

Nursing Outlook, 2001
This article reviews the major indicators of the growth in nurse-midwifery practice and education over the past 10 years. The major issues the profession has addressed are identified, as well as future challenges and opportunities. These challenges and opportunities are identified within the major dimensions of nurse-midwifery, that is, in practice ...
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African American Nurse-Midwives

2018
With the greatest need for improvements of maternity care in the south, this chapter returns the focus to the southern states. The National Organization of Public Health Nurses acknowledged the vital role African American nurse-midwives played in the public health education of black women and their families and two schools were established, one of ...
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Focus on Nurse Midwives

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1999
L A, Kamwendo, B J, Kuo, H, Olsson
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Teaching ethics to nurse-midwives

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1978
J E, Beebe, H, Thompson
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Nurse-Midwives

New England Journal of Medicine, 1941
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Nurse Midwives

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1931
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