High impact information on Midwifery

• The authors observed a Nicaraguan traditional birth attendant burn the fetal end of the umbilical cord with camphor [1].
• SITE: A peri-urban settlement in Zimbabwe. POPULATION: 500 women in the 8th month of pregnancy identified by traditional birth attendants and primary care clinics [2].
• Characteristics of traditional birth attendants and their beliefs and practices in the Offot Clan, Nigeria [3].
• The extra facilities in the PHC villages include: a paid Community Health Nurse for about every 5 villages, a Village Health Worker and a trained Traditional Birth Attendant [4].
• The paper explores such shifts from the perspectives of medical and midwifery practitioners working in two Fetal Medicine Units [5].

Biological context of Midwifery

• Liberian obstetrics. Part 1. The birth and development of midwifery [6].

Associations of Midwifery with chemical compounds

• Interviews with Nicaraguan traditional birth attendants revealed that the practice is passed from generation to generation and that it is believed to decrease infections through the medicinal properties of camphor as well as the flame it produces [1].
• It was illustrated in Aitken's Principles of Midwifery or Puerperal Medicine (1785) and used by him in his dissecting room [7].
• DESIGN: Action research provided the framework for the study where a multi-method approach was largely qualitative to attempt to capture the context and complexity in which the midwifery programme operates [8].
• Midwifery. 3. Control of pain in labour [9].
• Nursing Mirror midwifery forum. 7. Prostaglandin induced labour [10].

Gene context of Midwifery

• Does evidenced-based practice medicalize midwifery care? Part 1 [11].
• The NHS plan and midwifery [12].
• Utilization of traditional birth attendants in MCH care in rural Malaysia [13].
• The Nursing and Midwifery Council and the RCN are introducing measures to improve the overall experience of mentoring [14].
• Appropriate midwifery care of women with epilepsy includes consultation and co-management with an obstetrician and a neurologist [15].

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