A Family Centered Maternity Care Study Written on Lawya Fati at Kintampo Municipal Hospital

Abstract

Family centered maternity care study is a systematic approach to maternity care of an expectant mother, client’s family as well as her community members during pregnancy, labor and puerperium. The family centered maternity care is an academic work that gives the student midwife the opportunity to practice the knowledge and skills acquired during her training. She does this by providing total and quality nursing care to the woman and her family. Family centered maternity care study is also the nursing care of an expectant mother and family, based on understanding of the client as a unique individual with specific problems, needs and nursing care as stated by Nurses’ and Midwives’ Council (1997). The study comprises of all the information about the client and her family, which enables the student to recognize the client as a unique individual with specific problems and needs to render good nursing care to promote the health of the client physically, psychologically and socially. The family centered maternity care is to support and enable pregnant women to go through pregnancy without any complications and have an alive baby at term. It also boosts the student midwife’s confidence since she is able to put into practice what she has been taught theoretically. It is also a requirement for the award of a certificate of the Nursing and Midwivery Council of Ghana in the final examination of the student midwife in the award of a professional