Sentences with phrase «studying midwifery»

Living in the Wenatchee National Forest, she studied wildlife for the forest service and worked as a phlebotomist at a local hospital for three years.Realizing the importance of how we enter this world and her desire to help make it a safe and sacred experience, she began studying midwifery at Bastyr University.

Later on as I persue my studies, Heart and Hands is an inspirational book that keeps me focused on my original motives for studying midwifery, not the medical delivering of babies, but the emotional and spiritual journey that women make when they give birth.

Kristie's passion for all things birth took off when she began studying midwifery in her late teens.

Studying midwifery at degree level, wonderful stories!

Was bought as a gift but daughter was delighted as studying midwifery and says it's very interesting

She began studying midwifery in 1991, a few months before the home waterbirth of her second child.

I have personally been inspired by her in many ways, including but not limited to: having the courage to train for a marathon in Port - au - Prince because she had done it first, having the courage to raise my children here through many trials because she had done it first, having the guts to begin to study midwifery at the age of forty - because she had done it at the age of fifty.

These nurses are trained and they have studied midwifery.

«Dr. Low Dog's exploration of natural medicine and role in modern healthcare began more than 35 years ago as she studied midwifery, herbal medicine, massage therapy, and martial arts.»

Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.'s exploration of natural medicine began more than 35 years ago as she studied midwifery, herbal medicine; massage therapy and martial arts before earning her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Not exact matches

Next she began her Midwifery studies, and had the opportunity to work with many practitioners: Licensed Midwives, Certified Nurse Midwives, Naturopathic Doctors, Nurse Practitioners and Obstetricians within a holistic woman - centered model of care.

Certainly, there may even have been midwifery students among those catching breech babies, as was true of the Hannah 2000 study, or even neonates with fatal - anomalies which occurs with increased incidence with breech presentation, elevating poor outcomes for vaginal breech birth.

As a student of midwifery many years ago, the question of whether I would pursue private practice or seek employment within a larger corporation always poked it nose into my studies.

Homebirth and midwifery advocates point with pride to a recent study that showed that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife (Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births).

Her adherence to feminist theory as it relates to birth was influenced while studying at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, Case Western Reserve University and Texas Woman's University, Denton.

January 30, 2013 — The American Association of Birth Centers conducted a study over 3 years (2007 - 2010) with 79 midwifery - led birth centers in 33 states participating.

Living in a state that restricts midwifery practice, Dr. Adams is conducting a qualitative study to listen to the voices of women who choose homebirth over hospital birth.

An independent practitioner who has learned the skill of midwifery through study, apprenticeship, a midwifery school or college that is not a nursing program.

View the full results of The National Birth Center Study II, visit the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health web site: www.jmwh.org.

Midwifery Today just published this great response to the study, including specifics about some of the studies used in this faulty meta - analysis.

Michelle Burton joined us almost two years ago following completion of a women's studies degree with great interest in midwifery.

Twenty - one studies, including two random controlled trials and nineteen observational studies, were used to compare nurse - midwifery outcomes to those by physicians.

And when it comes to medical intervention, a study published in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health found that the C - section rate for low - risk women who chose to give birth at a birth center was only 6 percent, compared to the U.S. C - section rate of 27 percent for low - risk women.

This study examines nearly 17,000 planned homebirths with midwifery care and the results show an overwhelming benefit to positive health benefit.

The title Certified Nurse Midwife implies that in addition to studying nursing, a course of study in midwifery was completed.

The study was a prospective cohort study with planned place of birth at the start of care in labour as the exposure (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit, or obstetric unit).12 Women were included in the group in which they planned to give birth at the start of care in labour regardless of whether they were transferred during labour or immediately after birth.

She worked as a labor, delivery, and postpartum nurse at Providence Newberg Hospital for 10 years while pursuing her midwifery studies through Frontier Nursing University, graduating in October 2008 as a Certified Nurse Midwife with a Masters in Nursing.

She has had the opportunity to learn the art of midwifery from several midwives, midwifery study groups, workshops and through self - study for more than a decade and has been immersed in birth work since 1997.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

Outcomes of intended home births in nurse - midwifery practice: a prospective descriptive study.

Women in our study had a high rate of breastfeeding at 6 weeks postpartum (69 %) compared with other Australian data showing that 58 % of all infants were fully breastfed at 2 months of age.50 This may have been owing to a higher motivation of women in our cohort, and a good level of support and continuity of midwifery care, which has been shown to enhance rates of breastfeeding.

if a CPM is proper credential, why do other countries that have more integrated midwifery care still require the graduate study?

They may learn their skills through self - study, through apprenticeship, or at an independent midwifery school or college.

11 12 This contrasts with the Netherlands, for instance, where home midwifery caseloads of more than 100 births a year are common.16 It is not known, however, if practitioners in our study also practised in other settings.

More than half of CPMs (and who knows how many non-CPM midwives) never attend any accredited midwifery school and are credentialed through a program that allows them to study with a single preceptor, who then signs off on the student's portfolio.

At Case Western Reserve University, I served as Independent Study Advisor for Sarah Scott (educational pathways to midwifery).

The paper by Emma Derbyshire is an opinion piece, not a scientific study, and has been submitted for publication in the British Journal of Midwifery, which we note runs misleading formula advertising (some to be featured in the monitoring report) and published a highly - flawed article on Nestlé's practices with multiple errors.

2004 Study day speaker, midwifery programs at Bournemouth University, Huddersfield University, the University of Edinburgh, and Thames Valley University, London, UK, June.

2006 «Why Are Social Scientists Studying the Development of Direct - Entry Midwifery in the US?

1998 Midwifery Symposium, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, April.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

Seeking to understand the motivations of the key players who developed these certifications, I have interviewed over 30 members of the national boards and major divisions of both organizations, and have conducted case studies of midwifery politics and legislation in New York, California, and Washington state.

June 23, 2014 — The Lancet has published a series comprised of four international studies on midwifery.

«Women introduce formula or stop breastfeeding in an attempt to improve the situation, and this can lead to feelings of failure and guilt,» says Pat Hoddinott, Ph.D., lead author of the study and chairwoman of primary care at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

I realized very quickly that my personal experience of birthing two children and my three years of midwifery study paled in comparison to the knowledge of these birthing women.

We thank the midwifery practices and hospitals for recruiting respondents for the study.

The extent to which midwifery is integrated into a health care system probably explains some of the differences in practice and outcomes reported in U.S. and European studies.

Together they designed a mixed - methods study to explore topics that have not previously been detailed — women's preferences for model of care; perceptions of reasons for intervention; access to midwifery care; and experiences of autonomy, respect, discrimination, or coercion, when participating in a shared decision making process.