A Client/Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Madam Akosua Margaret

Abstract

Family centered maternity care study is a modern nursing approach of caring for a prenatal woman throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium considering the fact that the client is a unique individual with special needs that the student midwife takes care of. The care aims to offer a holistic care to an expectant mother focusing on a natural birth process, which needs very efficient nursing intervention. The family centered maternity care enables the student midwife to put into practice all the knowledge and skills obtained during three years training to render a comprehensive midwifery care to a pregnant woman and her family. This will also help to make the client and family to be aware of certain minor disorders in pregnancy and how to manage them at home. Again, this care is undertaken in order to improve upon the student’s writing skills in midwifery and to establish good interpersonal relationship between client and family. Furthermore, the study will also help the student midwife to interact with client, identify her problems and provide appropriate management. This is in partial fulfillment of the award of Diploma Certificate in Midwifery from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. For the sake of confidentiality, Madam Akosua Margaret represents the name of my client.