This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Vitamin B12 is, to put it simply, ‘essential for life’ (Kenny and Tidy, 2016)
The Knit a Midwife campaign aimed to highlight the shortage of midwives in the UK
Midwives are experts in the care of normal pregnancy/birth, but are also professionally accountable for detecting deviations and initiating immediate referral to an appropriate expert (Nursing and...
Sustaining compassion across long periods of time is an essential part of a midwife's role, with stress experienced from continual exposure to traumatic events potentially resulting in emotional...
On starting their programme of study, student midwives are generally highly motivated and optimistic about their journey into their chosen profession However, there is evidence to suggest the...
The midwifery undergraduate programme is challenging; to be successful, student midwives are required to navigate both academic and clinical practice demands To date, little is known about the...
Midwives can experience both organisational and occupational sources of work-related psychological distress, which can continue to affect them throughout their professional journey (Leinweber and...
Of the four million women who give birth in the USA each year, almost 30% gain more weight than recommended by the Institute of Medicine guidelines (Rasmussen and Yaktine, 2009) It has been...
A recent inspection initiative by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE, 2016) aimed at gauging compliance with regulations seeking to prevent injuries from health care sharps in the NHS has revealed a...
For the past month, I have been acting up as the labour ward matron, while the current matron is on a secondment As an experienced labour ward coordinator, I am used to the increasingly heavy demands...
While the report of the inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (Francis, 2013) largely focused on the failings in the nursing and medical professions, it was also a reminder to the...
Around 1/200 births in the UK result in stillbirth and about 1/400 infants die within the first 4 weeks of life (Office for National Statistics, 2015) Those women who experience perinatal loss (as a...
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