Newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who took part in an online course during their first year of employment reported increased clinical skills development and confidence. However the survey on the Flying Start NHS™ programme, published in the December issue of the...
In a developing country, a training program for midwives was successful at reducing infant deaths in low-risk births, reports a study in the November issue of Pediatrics. There are 3.7 million neonatal deaths and 3 million stillbirths per year worldwide - with 98 percent of these occurring in...
Since last week's closure of the bankrupt St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, home-birth midwives in New York City are scrambling to comply with a 1992 state law that requires them to have written practice agreements with hospitals in case of emergency complications, the New York Times reports...
The Australian Nursing Federation is urging Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith to lobby for the elimination of nuclear weapons at this month's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review meeting in New York. ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney said nurses and midwives are frontline health workers...
The Australian Nursing Federation is urging Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith to lobby for the elimination of nuclear weapons at this month's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review meeting in New York. ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney said nurses and midwives are frontline health workers...