A client/family centered maternity care study on Mrs. Comfort Afia Yeboah

Abstract

The family centered maternity care study is the entire care given to an expectant mother, her family members as well as the community throughout the period of pregnancy, labour and puerperium. Family centered maternity care study gives the student midwife the opportunity to use all the knowledge and skills she acquired during the period of her training to give quality maternity care that will meet the demands and challenges of the expectant mother and her family throughout the period of pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The nursing process is a tool used to help the client and her family to identify and solve her own problems. The student midwife is able to identify health problems through the collection and analyzing of data which was acquired during interaction with the client and her family. Appropriate management of the problems are done to ensure that, quality care is rendered through interpersonal relationship, physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of the client. The report on the care study is compiled into a document which is part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana’s fulfillment in awarding professional certificate to the student midwife as a registered midwife after three years training.