A client /family centered maternity care study on madam Ellen Andrew

Abstract

Client and family Centered Maternity care is a standardized approach of rendering care to an anticipating mother and her family through pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The aim of this study is to help know the client better to be able to respect her cultural and religious beliefs, traditions and values. This care is based on a thoughtful understanding of the client as a unique person with specific problems or needs that must be addressed. Basically, include the physical, emotional and psychological aspect of nursing to the expectant mother and her family. The study makes it possible for the student midwife to put into practice the knowledge and skills she has acquired during her training. The family centered maternity care study is an academic work which gives the student midwife the opportunity to nurse a client throughout pregnancy, labor and puerperium using the knowledge and skills acquired during the three-year training program. The study helps the midwife to use new trends in midwifery like the opportunity to use partograph in monitoring client during labour. This partograph is a tool developed by World Health Organization (WHO), which when used correctly helps curb the menace of maternal death in the country. The active management of third stage of labour also introduced to limit the occurrences of postpartum hemorrhage. Additionally, it helps the midwife to put into practice the safe motherhood initiative which has been adopted in order to improve quality of health through antenatal care, labour and postnatal care. A client centered maternity care helps to foster a good interpersonal relationship between clients and the student midwife and also strengthen the trust that exists between them. ii The care study is a partial fulfillment of the requirement by the Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana in awarding a Midwifery Certificate to the graduate at the end of the program to enable one to practice as a midwife in Ghana or any other country in the world.