The support and healthcare education that a midwife provides during the term of the pregnancy is vital to a newborn being born healthy. A midwife’s job will also typically mean having to continue to provide support and healthcare to the mother for up to one month after the baby has been...
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Depending on the infant’s 1 and 10 min Apgar Score and general condition, the midwife would have to assess the infant’s risk of e.g. neonatal hypoglycaemia and hypothermia and maybe seek pediatric advice (e.g. via telephone). Furthermore, the routine postnatal care regime for low risk...
They have a rule book about how to be a midwife, but it is not clear about how they should find out if a pregnant woman has depression. However, all midwives agreed on what they should do if they meet a depressed woman during anantenatal appointment in their clinic, following the rule ...
Female sex workers (FSWs) are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and encounter socio-economic and health problems, including STIs/HIV, unintended pregnancy and complications from unsafe abortion, stigma, violence, and drug addiction. Re
By raising a question through Family Assist, it enables parents, first of all, to self-serve the information themselves, and if not, then a healthcare professional will be on the end of that inquiry to answer that concern." Kelly Pierce, Consultant Midwife "Using Family Assist to message ...
believe that there are few opportunities for professional growth, which might cause them to feel unmotivated and dissatisfied with their jobs [63,71,75]. Therefore, in order to address the lack of HRH in India, it is imperative to address the issue of work unhappiness among healthcare ...
As we wait for Saleena, placed in a labor room, to reach the pushing stage of her labor, I spend time with the residents. During shifts in the labor ward, they hang out in what is formally the head midwife’s office: a long and narrow room, crammed with brown and gray, old-fashion...
In practice, post-partum health care by the midwife, obstetrician/gynaecologist or general practitioner covers the first six weeks and is focused on the recovery of the women's reproductive system, not on physical or mental health barriers to return-to-work. In the Netherlands, maternity leave ...
Within this framework, HL has shown its central role as a determinant of health [35]. In fact, low levels of education limit access to better jobs, or nudging persons towards less secure and riskier jobs, with lower incomes and poorer levels of health throughout life [36, 37]. Our ...