A client/family centered maternity care study on madam Issaka Rashida

Abstract

Client/Family centered maternity care study is a systematic way of administering midwifery care to a pregnant woman and her family throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The Client/ Family Centered Maternity care study also helps the student midwife to use new trends in midwifery like the partograph which is recommended and tested by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the management of labour. The active management of third stage of labour was also introduced to limit the occurrences of postpartum hemorrhage. The Client/Family centered maternity care study helps the student midwife to put into practice the Safe Motherhood initiative which has been adopted in order to help reduce the maternal mortality among pregnant women to improve the quality of health care through antenatal, labour and postnatal periods. The Client/Family centered care study is a required study that every final year student of Registered Midwifery programme is supposed to undertake to satisfy the Nursing and Midwifery Council to help contribute to the award of professional certificate in Registered Midwifery. To achieve these aims, the client, family and the community are all involved in the preparation towards the newborn. It is also necessary to establish good rapport, use a holistic care approach so that client’s problems and minor disorders are solved through education, counseling and early measures taken to prevent complication.