Recently added articles from Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery:
On the antiquity of evidence-based midwifery and its discontents.(Column)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Key words: Evidence, faith, patterns of knowing At a recent visit to an exhibition at the Staedel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main (Kemperdick and Sander, 2008), I was astounded to stumble upon a 600-year-old painting of evidence-based midwifery! The painting in question is Nativity by ...
The impact of the birth of the first child on a couple's relationship.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Background The birth of a child affects the dynamic of the couple's relationship as it changes to include a third person, affecting the functioning of parents and the marital family system (Cowan and Cowan, 1999). The birth of the first child as opposed to subsequent progeny is ...
Are student midwives influenced by the 'traditional' (non-evidence-based) practices of their clinical mentors?
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction This review was undertaken as part of a study that investigated whether pre-registered final year midwifery students were influenced by the 'traditional' (non-evidence-based) practices of their clinical mentors. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is defined ...
Professing midwifery.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Tell a taxi driver that you are a professor of midwifery and the response is likely to be 'You must have delivered hundreds of babies then'! But of course professors of midwifery must also be academics, they must straddle two very different worlds. The first world, the centre of the ...
Midwife sonographer activity in the UK.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Background Ultrasound has been used in obstetrics since the 1950s (McNay and Flemming, 1999; Donald et al, 1958) and became commonplace in the 1980s (RCOG, 1984; World Health Organization (WHO, 1998). The majority of obstetric scans are performed by radiographers within ...