Nathalie Clavel, MSc, PhD(c); Caroline Paquet, MSc, PhD(c); and Régis Blais, PhD
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Objectives: This study analyzed midwifery services implementation in one region (Montérégie) of Quebec. The objectives were to determine whether services were implemented as planned and to identify factors that facilitated or impeded implementation. The aspects studied included organizational components; types of midwifery services provided; levels of...
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Mary Sharpe, RM, PhD; Kristen Dennis, RM; Elizabeth C. Cates, RM, PhD; Sophia Kehler, BA; and Kory McGrath
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Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium commonly found in the vaginal flora and is usually of no consequence to women. However, vertical transmission of GBS to the baby during pregnancy and/or birth can lead to GBS-associated disease, a leading...
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April Jankiewicz, RN, BHSc(Hon), Andrea Fielder BSc, PhD, and Jane Warland, RN, RM, PhD
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Objective: This review summarizes current literature and explores issues involved in the management of pregnant women with chronic pain conditions. Methods: Articles in this review were selected through searches of Scopus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Library, and MEDLINE...
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Kathi Wilson, BA, BHSc, MSc (c)
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The communication task of conveying difficult news to patients by health care providers, described in the literature as “breaking bad news,” is one that is often performed poorly. There is, at the same time, a relatively small amount of research in the health sciences education literature devoted to the assessment of this...
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Lisa Morgan, RM, BSc, BHSc, MA, PhD(c)
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Feminist values conceptualize health care service as a social relationship, and they approach the sharing of information as a self-help activity rather than one between experts and naïve recipients. Woman-centred care embraces these ideas and is a fundamental concept in midwifery, straddling both the biomedical model and feminist health care aspirations....
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Najla Barnawi, BSN, RN, MN, Beverley O’Brien, RM, RN, PhD, Solina Richter, RN, Dcur, and Zubia Mumtaz, MBBS, MPH, PhD
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Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Due to increasing migration from these areas to Canada and elsewhere, the care of women who have...
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Kate LeBlanc, BA, and Jude Kornelsen, PhD
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Introduction: There is limited research data on unassisted childbirth (a planned out-of-hospital birth without the attendance of a regulated care provider) in Canada; this means that there is a lack of understanding of its prevalence and of the childbearing women’s motivations. This study aimed to uncover women’s...
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Helle Møller, PhD, Martha Dowsley, PhD, Pamela Wakewich, PhD, Lisa Bishop, BHSc, Kristin Burnett, PhD, and Mackenzie Churchill, HBSc
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Introduction: Although the uptake of midwifery in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is above the provincial average, it is well below the World Health Organization–suggested level. Midwifery is especially underutilized by Indigenous women and by...
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