Midwifery

Annotated Bibliography Topic How can midwives assist women to quit smoking either before or during pregnancy? Baxter S, Everson-Hock E, Messina J, Guillaume L, Burrows J, Goyder E 2010, ‘Factors relating to the uptake of interventions for smoking cessation among pregnant women: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis,’ Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 685-694. This article looks at how midwives involve women in smoking intervention at antenatal clinics and how…

Research done by Hartz, Foureur, & Tracy (2011) found that caseload midwifery has been an integral part of history, and an important factor that has formed the maternal health care systems in countries such as Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Despite this, caseload midwifery has only been implemented in Australia in recent years. Caseload Midwifery has many similar aspects as other Midwifery models of care; however it’s most defining characteristic is that a single midwife looks after a small group…

The midwifery team should be well informed to be able to answer questions in a supportive role. Incidence rates of ICP vary with geography and ethnicity, from less than 1% in North America and up to 4% in Chili . (11:141, 12:1-2). The cause is not well understood…

This application to enter the vocation of midwifery has grown from my passion to become involved within medicine. I 'm applying to study this vocation because I always wanted ti bring some difference of great experience in pregnancy and child birth. For last 9 years I developed my English language to effectively manage my studies due to my native language being Russian. Achieving a Diploma in holistic health and beauty has furnished me with a firm foundation to progress onto Access to HE -…

recognize the beliefs and attitudes people in our society have towards midwifery and hospital births. This experiment will try to answer what may be a definition and views of midwifery to the average citizen using a questionnaire. It will also include research on the benefits and disadvantages of choosing between midwifery and a hospital birth. The research hypothesis is that people today tend to disagree with the work of midwifery because of the popularity and modernization of using hospitals…

The journey and process of pregnancy and childbirth has always intrigued and fascinated me, as it is a daily and natural occurrence that brings happiness to many people. However, I gained inspiration to go into the field of midwifery when I experienced my cousin give birth. I was able to first-hand experience the effort, support and dedication provided by the midwives and realised how important they are to the whole process of having a child. I witnessed how midwives are at the centre of the…

Midwifery is the only career I envisage myself having. This realisation occurred whilst reading a news article. The particular article that drove me to my career aspiration involved a baby who had been born with his bowel outside of his body; I was in awe when I read this. As a young Year 7 student, I remember showing my friends the next day about how phenomenal the midwives were. Instantly, I decided that midwifery would be the career for me. Soon after, research into the profession…

tripartite mode captures the sum of the required activities which a mentor has to conduct by displaying specific roles and exhibiting given behaviors .The three modes are: 1) Academic Midwifery The process of assisting the students in bringing forth their hidden or sleeping potential is termed as Academic Midwifery. A mentor should respect any oppositional ideas of the mentee and must be adaptive to different and non traditional techniques. He must be available when the mentee faces any…

summarise three midwifery articles that gave me a better understanding of the role of a midwife and the activities involved in this occupation. The first article from The Practicing Midwife Journal is all about having Asthma during pregnancy and how to deal with it / how it affects mother and baby. I chose this article because I suffer from asthma myself and I thought it would be very interesting to see how it affects pregnancy. The Second article is from The British Journal of Midwifery and is…

Theaetetus, Socrates presents the argument that, while he himself holds no wisdom, what he practices is something akin to midwifery, in that he helps deliver the wisdom of those in his company, much like a midwife helps to deliver a baby. Socrates is intent on demonstrating that his influence is a positive one. Is his company the good sort to keep? Is his practice a honed art – like midwifery? Perhaps. I intend to examine the supporting evidence; we will look at Socrates’ following arguments: 1)…