A client/family centered maternity care study on Vida Takyiwaa

Abstract

Birth is a dynamic and transforming experience, birth on the individual and the societal level, and has the power to extremely affect the lives of those involved. It is a physiological process characterized by non-intervention, a supportive environment and empowerment of the woman. Client and family centred maternity care study is a complex, multi-dimensional, dynamic process of providing safe, skilled and individualized care. It responds to the physical, emotional and psychosocial needs of the woman and her family. The study starts during pregnancy, continues through labour and ends after a successful puerperium. The client and family centred maternity care study also forms part of the partial fulfilment for the award of the professional certificate in midwifery by the nursing and midwifery council of Ghana by the end of the three-year training as a midwife. The study also gives the student midwife the opportunity to use new techniques in midwifery to ensure proper management of pregnancy, labour and puerperium by using the Word Health organization modified partograph in the management of the first stage of labour, active management of the third stage of labour and encouraging exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months. It also helps the student midwife to use nursing process to care for the client and this includes identifying problems, setting long and short term objectives in order to solve these problems. All discussions and findings about the client during the study are kept confidential. At the end of the study the client was handed over to a nurse in the community to ensure continuity of care.