A Client/Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Madam Konamah Hawa

Abstract

In the past, midwifery was the duty of the old women in the community. It didn’t require any certificate or knowledge from books. It later became the duty of the traditional birth attendants and they were matured women from the community, who had been trained to have experiences in delivery and to identify problems for quick referral. Currently, midwifery has become the career of confident and qualified practitioners. Enough skills and knowledge from books have been impacted to these practitioners to enable them give holistic care to the client and the family.The client/family centered maternity care study is an evidenced based care rendered to a client, her family and the community at large, during pregnancy, labour and puerperium. It includes assessment, diagnosis, management of problems identified and education to the mother and her family during pregnancy, labour and puerperium, to prevent any complications, regarding the expectant mother as a unique individual, including the well being of her family. As the profession demands, client and family were assured of confidentiality of information obtained from them to compile this essay.With the changing trends in midwifery, the client and family centered maternity care study as part of the student midwife curriculum helps the student midwife to use the new trends in midwifery like the use of the partograph in the management of stages of labour and continual care to the client and baby after delivery to ensure proper anagement of the puerperium using the nursing process. The family centered maternity care study is a requirement that every final year student of the post basic midwifery program is supposed to undertake to satisfy the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana towards the award of the registered midwifery certificate.