A Client/Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Madam Ampomaa Rose

Abstract

The family centered maternity care study is a systematic approach used in giving holistic obstetric care to an expectant mother and her family based on careful study of the client as a unique individual with specific problems and needs using the nursing care process. With the new changes in consumer needs and the patient`s charter, there is the need for the midwife to know the kind of approaches to adopt as far as the care of the pregnant woman is concerned. Some of these approaches are; explaining procedures to client to gain the client’s consent before performing any procedure, providing privacy and involving the family in care of the client. This also includes comprehensive care thus having understanding of the client’s problems and providing the best physical, social and psychological care as much as possible. The maternity care study helps the student midwife to acquire knowledge which can be used to solve every problem associated with pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The practical competence of the student midwife is improved through the maternity care study as this helps the student to identify both short- and long-term problems, set objectives for these problems and give interventions that will help her to solve them. The main reason for carrying out this care is to reduce maternal and infant mortality and to promote the health of the baby and mother, as well as the family. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the partograph for the management of first stage of labour. Using this tool, the midwife identifies early complication of labour for intervention. Finally, the client/family centered maternity care study is an obligation for every final year student midwife as a requirement by the nurses and midwives’ council of Ghana in partial fulfilment towards the award of professional midwifery certificate.