A client/family centered maternity care study on Madam Abena Mabel

Abstract

Family Centered Maternity Care Study is a midwifery care, and education offered to a pregnant woman and her family from the time of pregnancy throughout labour to the end of the six weeks postnatal. The client is treated as a unique individual and the family is involved to gain their support. Both negative and positive factors in the client's environment are assessed and managed appropriately. This study gives the student midwife the opportunity to strengthen and broaden her knowledge and skills for professional academic development and also in partial fulfillment for the award of a professional certificate by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana at the end of the three-year course. The reason for carrying out such a study is to give the student midwife a maximum opportunity to put in to practice what she has learnt in the classroom and be able to assess herself whether she has understood the course. The care study also gives the client the opportunity to express her feeling and voice out any problem that may be bothering her so that the student midwife will manage and help her to come out of such problems. The care study includes the education given to the client throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium. It also involves the family members and the need for them to give a helping hand to the pregnant woman in carrying out her daily activities.