A client/family centered maternity care study on madam Twumwaa Patricia

Abstract

Family centred maternity care study is a comprehensive, evidenced based learning solution built to help you enhance your ability to understand, diagnose and treat common clinical problems in maternity care of an expectant mother, her family and the entire community during pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The care is individualized, based on identification and understanding of a client and family as unique people with specific needs and problems. These needs and problems could be psychological, physiological, emotional and spiritual which should be identified and solved. A comprehensive care is rendered based on the problems identified throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium and solved using the nursing care plan. This helps to avoid complications which might arise during pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The study gives the student the opportunity to choose and nurse a client and her family throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium and also prepare the family to receive the newborn using the knowledge acquired in the study of midwifery. It is also a requirement of the Nurses and Midwives council of Ghana, for the award of a professional registered midwifery certificate to students at the end of their three years study in school. ii