Midwives need to advise women, explain the options and help them make informed choices about their care. You'll need to be able to provide reassurance and counselling and must also be a good listener and respond to what women are saying. Women who have babies come from all sorts of backgrounds and life stages, so you'll be supporting a diverse range of women during one of the most emotionally charged times in their lives. You'll need to be able to stay calm and alert in times of stress, and enable women to feel confident and in control. It is also important to gain as much knowledge as needed about anatomy and physiology in the job.
Health care marketing analysis Brandy Marsh HCS 539 May 14, 2012 Debbie Schrager Health care marketing analysis According to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), “prenatal care has been recognized as the cornerstone of our health-care system for pregnant women since the beginning of the twentieth century” (public health importance). Prenatal care is an important aspect of a woman’s pregnancy. For some women obtaining prenatal care can be difficult so prenatal clinics have become a valuable resource. Organizations such as Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey offer reduced or sliding scale pricing for women who cannot afford prenatal care. Marketing for Planned Parenthood is vital to the organizations success.
Margaret founded many leagues and was the president of them.One of the leagues was the planned parenthood federation of America. The principal of this league was We hold that children should be concieved in love, born of mothers concous desire and only begotten under conditions which render possible the heritage of health. Margaret invested a lot of her time communicating to the general public to educate them about preventing unwanted pregnancies and planning a family.She wrote several books which had a nationwide impact in promoting birth control.Some of the books include Woman and the new age and The pivot of civilisation. Margaret search for the magic pill that can be taken like asprin came to an end when a sponsor Katrien McCornick made the research possible and the first oral contraceptive Enoid was
Skills in how to communicate effectively with both the pediatric patient and their parents are important for a nurse to foster to maintain good therapeutic relationships. Person centred care becomes family centred care when babies and children are the patients. The dependent nature of the patient increases the need for parental responsibility and advocacy for the child. It is important for all members of the family to be taken into account when nursing a pediatric patient, especially the primary caregivers and siblings. Chochinov, 2007 (cited in Cornwell & Goodrich, 2009), states simply that compassion is ‘a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.’ Pediatric patients and their families are highly sensitive to the compassionate nature of health care professionals and a successful therapeutic relationship with them depends on the sensitive, compassionate care offered by the nurse.
The experience of pregnancy and the feeling of postpartum life are unique for every woman. The culture is showing that becoming a mother of a baby is the happiest time in a woman’s life. Every woman should know and understand what is prenatal mental health. The society should provide the support and information to all the pregnant women. “Women were afraid of two things: to die during childbirth and that something should happen to the baby during childbirth.
Most patients require gender specific nursing care during treatment (Stainton et al, 2011). Themost important three gender specific nursing care needs of Mrs.Green are to have theassistance of a female physiotherapist in performing exercises and also the help and assistanceof a female care giver in performing ADLs. 3. Describe two (2) priority needs to be considered in planning for Mrs. Green’s discharge? The major priority needs that has to be considered in planning for Mrs. Green`s discharge areeducating the patient and the family regarding the after-discharge care and medical treatmentby initiating patient specific – care plans, establish patient referrals with other teams likephysiotherapy and primary care providers (Lees, 2004).
Eloisa Morales English 1301 March 22, 2011 Pros and Cons on Breastfeeding We have all heard “breast milk” is best, however as our society changes and as time constraints mothers go for convenience verses what is best. Within the past century more women have left the home and gone back to work, making breastfeeding less common. The need to reeducate and encourage women to breastfeed is imperative, but the choice is still ultimately the mothers. Breastfeeding has many pluses, the bond created between mother and baby is very special. Breastfeeding brings so many benefits such as it contains antibodies that decrease infant’s risk of infections, diarrhea, allergies, asthma, SIDS, diabetes and certain cancers.
Advice on antenatal visits and its importance like, four visits upwards is regarded as booked antenatal mother, nutrition during pregnancy and childbirth is also a vital role to advise mothers on, like a balanced diet with water to take. Advocate for mothers and her baby in other words speaking on behalf of them. Therefore the roles of a midwife during antenatal period are to ensure that pregnancy is monitored and critically evaluating the physical, psychological aspects of how the mother feels about the pregnancy and the actual birth experience and social effects of pregnancy (Cooper and Fraser, 2009).In order to do that, the midwife has to create an environment that is friendly and the approach to the mothers care has to be holistic. To share information with the pregnant mother and husband allowing them to choose for themselves which choice they will have about pregnancy and childbirth (Cooper and Fraser, 2009).Also to monitor the baby, whether baby is growing or not. So in doing
By using a Framework Approach and Theory of Planned Behavior approach, data were analyzed. During the observation and the interview, it was found that both inernal factors like physical or psychological and external concerns as work, family, time or environmental are the main barriers to physical activity for pregnant women. From behavioural beliefs and attitudes, control beliefs, normative beliefs, data were collected in the quotes of study participants. Thus, healthy diet is always a suggestion for pregnant women. What is more important is proper physical activity, these two consist a healthy lifestyle.
According to Dietz and Lehozky (1963), the discipline of nursing slowly evolved from the traditional role of women, humanitarian aims, religious ideals, common sense, trial and error, war, and feminism. To truly appreciate where we are going, it is important to know where we have been. Sullivan (2002) mentioned that in many societies, the provision of nursing care was a role that was assigned to female members. As caretakers of children, family and community, it was natural that women were the nurses, the caregivers, as human society evolved (Sullivan, 2002). Because women traditionally provided nurturance to their own infants, it was assumed these same caring approaches could be extended to sick and injured community members as well.