A Client/Family Centered Maternity Care Study on Mrs. Na Juma Amadu

Abstract

Client and family centered maternity care study which is always conducted on pregnant women and her family involves, considering the woman in totality. During the care of the woman involves social, spiritual, physical and psychological aspects of their lives. The care is centered on both the woman and the whole family because the family plays a vibrant role in the care rendered to the woman and her unborn baby. The care involves data collection, nursing diagnosis, assessment, identification of problems, planning; implementation and evaluation of the data that would help solve the individual’s problems. The family centered maternal care study is an academic work which gives the student midwife an opportunity to nurse her client using the nursing process plan and the partograph to implement and evaluate her pregnancy, labour and puerperium using the knowledge and skills acquired during the training. The report on the care study is compiled into a document which is part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana’s fulfilment in awarding professional certificate to the student midwife as a registered midwife after three years training.