A client/family centered maternity care study on Madam Alima

Abstract

The practice of midwifery in the past focused mainly on the client in an effort to meet the client’s needs. However, all the needs of client could not be met because they lacked family support. Again, Midwifery has undergone a lot of changes globally and nationally. These changes have brought the introduction of client and family centered maternity care concept. The concept of family centered maternity care is a systematic way by which a comprehensive maternity and nursing care is given to a pregnant woman and her family throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium by the use of the nursing care process. The confidentiality of the client is ensured and client feels at ease to provide vivid history and discussions on confidential matters. This system gives the student midwife the opportunity to use all the knowledge and skills acquired during her training to give quality maternity care to the pregnant women and her family throughout the period of pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The study also enables the student midwife to identify and help clients solve their health problems. To achieve this, the student identifies the health problems, assess the client, set objectives, provide the necessary interventions, and evaluate the care to know if goals have been fully met at the end of the care. The care study forms part of the academic exercise from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana which serves as a partial fulfillment towards the award of a registered midwifery certificate.