How to Become Mother-Friendly : Policies & Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Services.
Title:
How to Become Mother-Friendly : Policies & Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Services.
Author:
Hotelling, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780826129772
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword by Wendy C. Budin, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN -- Preface -- Step 1: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service offers all birthing mothers unrestricted access to birth companions, labor support, and professional midwifery care. -- Policy 1A: Unrestricted Access to Birth Companions -- Policy 1B: Access to Continuous Emotional and Physical Support by a Skilled Woman -- Policy 1C: Unrestricted Access to Midwifery Care in All Birth Settings -- Step 2: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides accurate descriptive and statistical information to the public about the practices and procedures for birth, including measures of interventions and outcomes. -- Policy 2: Provides Accurate and Descriptive and Statistical Information About Birth Care Practices -- Step 3: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides culturally competent care -- that is, care that is sensitive and responsive to the specific beliefs, values, and customs of the mother's ethnicity and religion. -- Policy 3: Culturally Competent Care -- Step 4: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides the birthing woman with the freedom to walk, move about, and assume the positions of her choice during labor and birth (unless restriction is specifically required to correct a complication), and discourages the use of the lithotomy (flat on back with legs elevated) position. -- Policy 4A: Freedom of Movement -- Policy 4B: Discourage the Use of the Lithotomy Position.
Step 5: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service has clearly defined policies and procedures for collaborating and consulting with other maternity services and linking the mother and baby to appropriate community resources during both the prenatal and the postpartum periods. -- Policy 5A: Collaborative Care -- Policy 5B: Community Resources -- Policy 5C: Transfer of the Midwife-Attended Planned Home Birth Patient to the Hospital Maternity Service -- Step 6: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service does not routinely employ practices and procedures that are unsupported by scientific evidence. -- Policy 6A: Shaving Practices -- Policy 6B: Enema Practices -- Policy 6C: Intravenous (IV) Drips -- Policy 6D: Withholding Nourishment or Water -- Policy 6E: Early Rupture of Membranes -- Policy 6F: Electronic Fetal Monitoring -- Policy 6G: Induction -- Policy 6H: Episiotomy -- Policy 6I: Cesarean Surgery -- Policy 6J: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean -- Step 7: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service educates staff in nondrug methods of pain relief, and does not promote the use of analgesic or anesthetic drugs not specifically required to correct a complication. -- Policy 7: Pain Management and the Laboring Woman -- Step 8: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service encourages all mothers and families, including those with sick or premature newborns or infants with congenital problems, to touch, hold, breastfeed, and care for their babies to the extent compatible with their conditions. -- Policy 8: Mother-Friendly Care of the Sick Newborn -- Step 9: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service discourages nonreligious circumcision of the newborn. -- Policy 9: Discourage the Routine Circumcision of Newborn Males for Nonreligious Reasons.
Step 10: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service strives to achieve the WHO-UNICEF "Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" to promote successful breastfeeding. -- Policy 10: Management -- Appendices -- A. Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative Self-Assessment Tool -- B. Having a Baby? 10 Questions to Ask -- C. Is Your Perinatal Practice Mother-Friendly? A Strategy for Improving Maternity Care -- D. Is Your Doula Practice Mother-Friendly? -- E. Are Your Birth Classes Mother-Friendly? -- F. Nitrous Oxide Use in the Intrapartum/Immediate Postpartum Period -- G. Birth Can Safely Take Place at Home and in Birthing Centers -- H. Care of Incarcerated Women in Labor -- Index.
Abstract:
This is the only book to present the evidence-based policies and procedures that medical and non-medical staff can use to develop Mother-Friendly Care in their facilities. The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI), developed by the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), is a wellness model designed to improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. It is an evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model that focuses on prevention and wellness as alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs. The MFCI is the first and only consensus document on U.S. maternity care and is recognized as an important instrument for change in the U.S. and abroad. The book is based on research and evidence developed by CIMS and includes 10 protocols, each with detailed policies and procedures and supporting information and resources that help implement the change to Mother-Friendly Care. Each protocol is authored and reviewed by recognized leaders in a variety of childbirth and maternity care arenas. The book traces the development of Mother-Friendly Care and describes its core tenets along with supporting statistical information. These tenets eschew practices not supported by scientific evidence. The manual includes implementation strategies for the evidence-based nursing care training programs of such organizations as Lamaze, ICEA, and AWHONN, and supports the WHO-Unicef "Ten Steps of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" to promote successful breastfeeding. Key Features: Provides evidence-based policies and procedures for developing Mother-Friendly Care in maternity care facilities; Presents specific guidelines that can be used as a standard to measure Mother-Friendliness and subsequently used for marketing purposes; Designed to provide childbirth educators and doulas with guidelines for promoting
Mother-Friendly Care to birthing women; Assists nurses who want to promote more rapid change on their units toward Mother-Friendly Care; Supports the WHO-UNICEF "Ten Steps of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" to promote successful breastfeeding.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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