A client/ family centered maternity care study on Madam Gifty Apam

Abstract

Midwifery is a branch of health care that basically focuses on pregnant women and their entire families. Family centered maternity care is an individualized care rendered to a pregnant woman with the involvement of her family, bearing in mind that, the woman is unique with specific problems. This enables student midwife with this concept in mind to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during her period of training to care for clients and their families during pregnancy, labour and puerperium. In addition to the above, the family centered maternity care study helps the student to use partograph which is a managerial tool for monitoring labour to manage client in order to identify complications promptly and intervene. The nursing process is also used and it provides a framework for solving problems and making decisions in the management of the client and family in a systematic manner. The study also enables student midwife to educate the client and family and also promote cordial relationship between the student midwife, the mother and her family. More so, the study requires the student midwife to put into practice the concept of safe motherhood initiative which has being adapted to render quality maternity care through antenatal, labour and puerperium which will eventually reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. It also modifies the skills of the student midwife with the holistic and individualized care approach to all clients according to their needs. Finally, the family centered maternity care study is a requirement by the nursing and midwifery council of Ghana towards the awards of the license to practice as professional midwife