Midwifery

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The professional midwife would have acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes to recognize the total reproductive health needs of individuals, families and communities, and participate effectively in meeting those needs.

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Browsing Midwifery by Author "Adjei Benewaa Joana"
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    A Client/Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Madam Hannah Boaa
    (Holy Family NMTC Library, Berekum, 2022-08-01) Adjei Benewaa Joana
    Client/family centered maternity care study is the systematic way of administering midwifery care to a pregnant woman and her family throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The family centered maternity care is mainly based on total nursing care in which the physical, psychological, spiritual, social and rehabilitative aspect of the client is considered. It includes the expectant mother, her family and the community in preparing towards the impending arrival of the new family member. The client/family centered maternity care study also help the student midwife to use new trends in midwifery like the partograph which is recommended and tested by World Health Organization (WHO). The active management of third stage of labour was also introduced to limit the occurrences of postpartum hemorrhage. The care study offers the student midwife the opportunity to put the knowledge and skills acquired during training into practice. It also enables her to detect problem and need of the mother and her family. Also the family centered maternity care study helps to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The client and family centered maternity care study is compiled into a document in partial fulfillment for the award of registered midwifery certificate by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana.
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    A Client/Patients satisfaction with nursing care at Antenatal Clinic(ANC) OF Holy Family Hospital, Berekum
    (Holy Family NMTC Library, Berekum, 2023-08-01) Mavis Adu Gyamfi ; Monica Oppong Sachie ; Adjei Benewaa Joana
    Patients‟ satisfaction has been widely advocated as an outcome measure of quality nursing care. Measures of patient satisfaction have been found to correlate directly with treatment compliance, nursing quality, and outcome of care. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of in-patient satisfaction with nursing care at Holy Family Hospital, Berekum. A hospital based quantitative design was conducted with 50 patients admitted in the medical, surgical and maternity wards. A convenience sampling technique was used to select participants for the study. A total of 50 participants was used for the study. Data was entered and analyzed using Microsoft excel and results were presented in the form of frequencies and percentages. The study found that vast majority (92%) of the respondents agreed that patient teaching is their top most expectation from the nurses/midwives, a whooping (90%) of respondents expressed that physical examination is something they expect from nurses/midwives to perform all the time. A whooping (98%) of respondents were satisfied with administration of medication since it was done appropriately. Concerning routine vital signs checking. The study recommended that in-service training by the in-service training coordinator of the hospital to update nurses on quality nurse-patient relationship.The study concluded that the highest items of patient expectations were patient teaching, physical examination, nurse/midwife spent with patients, respect for patients‟ rights and psychological care. The highest items for patient satisfaction with specific dimensions of nursing care were administration of medication, checking of routine vital signs and skills of nurses/midwives