A client/ family centered maternity care study on madam Akua Serwaa

Abstract

The family centred Maternity care is an academic work which gives the student midwife the chance to nurse a client during pregnancy, labour and puerperium using the knowledge and skills acquired during the programme of studies. For this study, the student midwife chooses a pregnant woman, manage her during pregnancy, labour, puerperium by practicing Respective Maternity Care (RMC) which is a universal human right that every pregnant must enjoy whenever they go for services. It encompasses the principles of ethics and respect for the women’s feelings, dignity, choices and preferences. It involves counselling and encouraging of mothers on exclusive breastfeeding for at least first six month of baby’s life. Client and family centred Maternity care is a standardized approach of rendering care to an expectant mother and her family through pregnancy, labour and puerperium. This care is based on a clear understanding that every client is a unique person with specific problems or needs that need to be addressed. This basically include physical, emotional and psychological aspect of nursing to the anticipating mother and her family. The study helps the student midwife to put into practice the knowledge and skills she has acquired during her training. A client centred maternity care helps to create good interpersonal relationship between clients and the student midwife and also strengthens the trust that exists between them. The care study is a partial fulfilment of the requirement by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana in awarding a Midwifery certificate to graduate at the end of the two years studies to enable one to practice as a Registered midwife wherever she finds herself.