More Midwife Education Needed for Home Water Births JAMA. 2015;313(6):559. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.148 Full Text After a 25-day-old infant in Texas died from a Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 infection acquired last year during a home water birth, the Texas Department of State Health Service...
The article reports on recommendations issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services for infection control and cleaning protocols for birthing tubs used by midwife facilities in the state, and mentions the case of an infant who died from a Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 infection....
should constitute a comprehensive lifelong education … it should prepare the individual for life through an understanding of the major problems of the contemporary world, and the provision of skills and attributes needed to play a productive role towards improving life and protecting the environment ...
Special education: mainly refers to the school education, is the development of education according to social requirements and the educated, with purpose, plan and organization of the educated physical and mental influence, to cultivate the needed social activities of the people. The basic connotation...
The aim of the questionnaire was to examine mid- wives' perceptions of education, knowledge and practice around immersion in water for labour. Midwives were asked about: their employment status (if they worked in the MGP or CMP and how long they had been working as a midwife and facilitating...
The development of prenatal care and hospitalized childbirth and maternity care resulted in new and different demands on the midwife; as a result, it was determined that midwives needed to be registered nurses as a basis for their profession. Midwifery education came thus to became a specialist ...
A British university is reportedly instructing students studying to become midwives (since when was a university degree needed to be a midwife?) on how to deliver babies from a“birthing persons†with a penis. Edinburgh Napier University's 'skills workbook' issued to midwifery BSc...
The staff is incredibly knowledgeable and they were very kind to take the time needed to share all of their expertise with a student that doesn't have much clinical experience. The CFHI staff both here in the states and abroad made the immersion into a culture so different from my own ...
Back-to-basicschildbirth educationfor the how, why, and when to makeinformed choicesthat support comfort throughphysiologic birth, labor progression inbirth variations, andmedical birthwhen needed. For thefamilieswho yearn forknowledgeandunderstandingof the entirechildbearing year… who believe the informat...
I have briefly discussed the focus of the curriculum needed to prepare the nurse-midwife as an expert in the care and support of normal childbearing families, and thus ensure the continued professional status of this health care provider. I believe I may have raised more questions than answers ...