A Client/ Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Madam Yussif Zulfawo

Abstract

The client/family centered maternity care study is a systematic approach used in giving holistic obstetrical care to a pregnant woman and her family from the period of antenatal, labour and puerperium. With the new changes in customer needs and patient charter, it helps the student midwife to acquire the right kind of approaches to care for the pregnant woman. Some of these approaches are, explaining procedure to the client to gain the client’s consent, providing privacy and getting the family involved in the care. The maternity care study helps the student midwife to acquire knowledge which can be used to solve any problem associated with pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The competence of the student midwife is also tested in the practical aspect through the maternity care study which the student uses to identify both short- term and long-term problems, set objectives for these problems and give intervention that will help her solve them. The main reason for carrying out this care study is to reduce maternal and infant mortality rate and to promote the health of the baby and mother, including the family. It is in this view that the World Health Organization (WHO) develops the partograph in managing the first stage of labor. Using this tool assists the midwife to identify any complication of labor for prompt intervention. The student midwife during this care study gets the chance to use the partograph to enable her to become competent in using it. Finally, the client/family centered maternity care is an obligation for every final year student midwife as a requirement by the nursing and midwifery council of Ghana in partial fulfillment towards the award of registered midwifery certificate.