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184 results for 'home birth'

Birthplace Options

… Ontario midwives attend births at home , in hospital and in midwifery-led birth centres . During your pregnancy, your midwife will talk to you about your options, will …

Job Descriptions

… stock Purchasing Organization Furniture, stationery, forms, cleaning supplies, medications, home birth kits, home birth supplies, kitchen supplies Assembling water birth kits Client binders Management …

Contracting for Reprocessing Services

… reprocessing services: The practice has low volumes of instruments to reprocess (e.g. a 20% home birth rate with 400 clients a year is only 80 birth kits a year). It is difficult for the … For midwives, this means that they may be required to include the same instruments in every home birth kit, rather than each midwife individualizing their own. Midwives can agree to a …
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Human Resources Shortages

… the evolving situation ("plan B") the discussion with the client Considerations for choice of birthplace During midwife shortages, there may be circumstances where midwives cannot safely offer out of hospital birth to clients. Midwives must draw upon their clinical skills and judgement to keep birth as … may be limited by: the unavailability of midwives or second attendants to attend a birth at home the availability and capacity of timely EMS services access to sufficient and adequate PPE …

Workplace Violence and Harassment

… in any setting where a midwife or other worker is interacting with clients, such as a client's home, the midwifery clinic, hospitals, birth centres or other community settings.  It may arise from work relationships (e.g. a client … system for when a midwife or staff member is working alone at the clinic or at a client’s home. Ensure that workers are alone only when absolutely necessary, and establish a buddy system …

Postpartum and Newborn Care

… issues with your midwife, who will care for you and your baby for up to eight weeks after the birth (this is called postpartum care ). During this time, your midwife will provide guidance … yourself during this unique time in both of your lives. Regardless of where you give birth ( home , birth centre or hospital ), Your midwife will monitor your well-being at home or in the community for up to eight weeks after the birth. You can expect close follow-up …

Self-determination is the key to improved outcomes in midwifery care within Toronto’s Indigenous community

… has made to the Indigenous community. Indigenous midwives, up until the medicalization of birth in the 1950s, had been providing care to pregnant people and catching babies in Indigenous … ask for what they need.” Indigenous community members call many parts of the city of Toronto home. Cheryllee moves easily between her practice space at SGMT to people’s homes, in addition to working with those with no fixed address and who may be living in a …

Ontarians recognize the value of midwives to clients, families and the health-care system

… health system. Last year, 26 000 families received midwifery care, accounting for 20% of all births in the province. Midwives bring value to the health system in many ways, including by … of excellent care both in hospital and in the community, with choice to give birth in their home or in a hospital or birth centre. Clients in midwifery care who choose a hospital birth can … Lauren emphasized that midwifery provided "exceptional care, including postpartum support at home – something I couldn't imagine going without." Another client, Lindsey Bruce, valued the …

BORN Clinical Reports

… surveillance in labour pharmacologic pain management in labour intervention by planned place of birth cervical ripening, induction of labour and augmentation indications for induction … to hospital during postpartum (not immediate) client length of stay from admission to discharge home, facility births newborn length of stay from birth to discharge home, facility-born term live births NICU admissions, term live births, by actual place of birth …

Ukrainian-Canadian midwife supports midwives in Ukraine; Emergency skills and association recognition at the ICM top of agenda 

… Over three days, Daviss provided training to 56 attendees in managing vaginal breech births, postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, undiagnosed twins, cord prolapse and other … occurring in bomb shelters during air strikes have been reported by the international press. Home birth is currently unsupported by the state and most births take place in hospital settings … and lactation consultants, has facilitated a pathway for Ukrainian midwives to gain practical home birth experience under the guidance of Polish midwives. The group has also received funding …

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