What's new in midwifery - 19th February 2020
Some new things from NICE you may need to know about:Clinical Guideline CG192, Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance has been updated. The guidance on valproate (and perhaps other things) have been updated.New medical technologies guidanceonEpiscissors-60 for mediolateral episiotomy. MTG47. NICE is consulting on its guideline on preterm labour and birth, NG25, to check if it needs updating. Join the consultation.A reminder of our coronavirus resources.Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - February 19, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 12th February 2020
Some recent things you might need.CoronavirusI am compilingcoronavirus resources. In the newsIs it impossible to breastfeed and have a full-time job? (Guardian)Part of the Guardian ' s Feminist economics series, looking particularly at the United States.Research (ask your librarian about access to full text)Found through EvidenceAlerts, a McMaster University alert service that alerts you to recent research that practitioners have found relevant.Prospective evaluation of screening performance of first-trimester prediction models for preterm preeclampsia in an Asian population (published in American Journal of Obstetric...
Source: Browsing - February 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 5th February 2020
Some recent things you might want to know...CoronavirusNICE Evidence Search is a good place to find things relating to the current outbreak. I am maintaining listson this blog. StatisticsBreastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: 2019 to 2020 quarterly data (Public Health England)Maternity Services Monthly Statistics October 2019, experimental statistics (NHS Digital)Pregnancy in artGreat expectations: art ' s struggle to depict pregnancy (Guardian)NICE Interventional Procedures GuidanceFetoscopic prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus (IPG667)Open prenatal repair for open neural tube defects ...
Source: Browsing - February 5, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Nurse Practitioner, one of the top 10 “Best Jobs” 5 of the last 6 years
Nurse practitioner has been ranked one of the top 10 “best jobs” for five of the last six years by U.S. News & World Report. Even better? It’s the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and nurses have been ranked the “most trusted profession” for the last 18 years. In 2020, nurse practitioner ranked:
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse best jobs careers dnp Nurse practitioner Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 29th January 2020
Two weeks ' worth of things you may need to know.Novel coronavirus - I am collecting clinical informationon a separate post.Care Quality CommissionMaternity services survey 2019, looking at the experience of women receiving maternity servicesCase studiesWest Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership are inviting service user participation through Maternity Voices Partnerships.NewsCoroner ' s ruling in the case of Gabriela Pintilie, who died following a postpartum haemorrhage. (Guardian)Systematic reviewAntenatal magnesium sulphate and adverse neonatal outcomes. Abstract of this PLoS Medicine revie...
Source: Browsing - January 29, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 15th January 2020
Some recent things to know about...StatisticsKey performance indicator (KPI) data reports for NHS population screening programmes for financial year 2018 to 2019(Public Health England)Includes antenatal and newborn screening.Maternity statistics monthly statistics (NHS Digital)NICE consultationsNICE are consulting on jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days, to see if Clinical Guideline CG98 needs updating.Acknowledgements: King ' s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert; Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - January 15, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
It ’s the Year of the Nurse
The World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife in honor of Florence Nightingale ’s 200th birthday. We owe a lot to Florence Nightingale, but what about Harriet Tubman or Mary Seacole? Nursing – and society – has been changing since the days of these nursing pioneers. It’s way past […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sarah-jorgensen" rel="tag" > Sarah E. Jorgensen, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Nursing Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 8th January 2020
Some new things you may need...DNA testing of critically ill newbornsWhole exome sequencing, a DNA test that can help diagnose rare diseases, is part ofNHS England ' s Long Term PlanGabriela PintilieGabriela Pintilie died of a haemorrhage shortly after giving birth in February 2019, and the Guardian is covering the inquest into her death -first day,second dayBooks about motherhoodSome forthcoming ones are in theGuardian ' s look at rising cultural stars in 2020 - section 17, near the end of the articleAcknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - January 8, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
2020: Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
The World Health Assembly has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Over the course of an entire year, organizations worldwide will celebrate what makes nurses distinct, raise awareness of their contributions to health care and science, and shed light on the fact that the world needs more nurses. Stay tuned for
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 2, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse midwife year of the nurse Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery for the new year
Happy New Year, first of all.Here are some recent things you may want to know about:vCreateBBS video report about vCreate, an app that enables parents to see and stay in touch with their premature newborn. More about the app, which is an NHS trusted application, athttps://www.vcreate.tv/. And a BBC story to readhere.ResearchNIHR Signals review of research published in New England Journal of MedicineVery small babies appear not to be affected by the rate of increasing milk feedsMulticultural coping experiences of parents following perinatal loss: A meta ‐ethnographic synthesis(Journal of Advanced Nur...
Source: Browsing - January 2, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
2020: Entering the Year of the Midwife
By MICHELLE COLLINS, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN
The World Health Organization has named 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. However, most Americans have never experienced a midwife’s care. In my over 30 years working in maternal-child health, I’ve heard plenty of reasons why. Families are understandably nervous about that with which they are unfamiliar, and nervous about pregnancy and birth in general, with good reason. The cesarean birth rate in the US has more than quadrupled since the early 1970’s, yet we aren’t seeing healthier mothers and babies as a result. In fact, compared to the prior generation, wo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Michelle Collins midwife midwifery nurse Nursing Source Type: blogs
Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Behind the 8-Ball
On June 8, 2019, an article was published in the New York Times that clearly stated something I ' ve been thinking about for quite some time. The article was titled, "The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses" , and the subtitle was "One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers" . It was written by Dr. Danielle Ofri, a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.The article outlines the ways in which healthcare providers are exploited for their compassion and dedication to patients in terms of being asked to see more patients and do more work than is humanly possibl...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 30, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: burnout doctors family nurse practitioners hospitals medical care medical ethics nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 18th December 2019
Some recent things you might want to know about...Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity (MBRRACE-UK)Saving lives, improving mothers ’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2015-17Read more, and link to the report, on the HQIP site. Fetal and neonatal haemochromatosisNHS EnglandClinical commissioning policy: Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosisGlobal healthUSAID ' s Maternal and Child Survival Program is endingHypertension in pregnancyClini...
Source: Browsing - December 18, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Q & A with Sigma Nursing President-Elect Ken Dion
With #NursingNow2020, The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and the 2020 celebration of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday, all eyes are on nurses. “One thing I and President Richard Riccardi want to do is to keep the momentum going through Sigma’s 100th anniversary in 2022 and beyond,” says Ken Dion, PhD, MSN, MBA, RN,
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - December 17, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Sigma Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 11th December 2019
Discussion relating to one of these at least in the Guardian,Record number of over-45s giving birth in England, NICESurveillance report NICE guideline (NG126)Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial managementThis guideline will be updated:read this page to find out why.In the newsSinging the blues: how music can help ease postnatal depressionMelodies for Mums, an iniative that is part of a study being funded by the Wellcome.Maternity care failings in Shropshire (BMJ)OpinionBMJ editorialScreening for cytomegalovirus in pregnancy (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - December 11, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
