How to Become Mother-Friendly (eBook, ePUB)

Policies & Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Services
Redaktion: Hotelling, Barbara A.; Gordon, Helen A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826129772
• Artikelnr.: 44765719

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Contributors xi
Foreword by Wendy C. Budin, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN xiii
Preface xv
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. 1
Marilyn Curl
Policy 1A: Unrestricted Access to Birth Companions 3
Policy 1B: Access to Continuous Emotional and Physical Support by a Skilled
Woman 5
Policy 1C: Unrestricted Access to Midwifery Care in All Birth Settings 7
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. 15
Marilyn Curl
Policy 2: Provides Accurate and Descriptive and Statistical Information
About Birth Care Practices 17
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. 19
Karen Miles Sheffield
Policy 3: Culturally Competent Care 21
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. 25
Laurey Munch
Policy 4A: Freedom of Movement 27
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. 33
Judith A. Lothian
Policy 5A: Collaborative Care 35
Policy 5B: Community Resources 37
Policy 5C: Transfer of the Midwife-Attended Planned Home Birth Patient to
the Hospital Maternity Service 38
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. 41
Barbara A. Hotelling
Policy 6A: Shaving Practices 43
Policy 6B: Enema Practices 44
Policy 6C: Intravenous (IV) Drips 45
Policy 6D: Withholding Nourishment or Water 47
Policy 6E: Early Rupture of Membranes 49
Policy 6F: Electronic Fetal Monitoring 50
Policy 6G: Induction 53
Policy 6H: Episiotomy 56
Policy 6I: Cesarean Surgery 58
Policy 6J: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean 61
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. 79
Jeannette Schwartz
Policy 7: Pain Management and the Laboring Woman 81
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.
85
Rhonda Lanning
Policy 8: Mother-Friendly Care of the Sick Newborn 87
Step 9: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service
discourages nonreligious circumcision of the newborn. 91
Catherine Gordon
Policy 9: Discourage the Routine Circumcision of Newborn Males for
Nonreligious Reasons 93
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. 97
Eileen A. DiFrisco and Jessica Deeb
Policy 10: Management 99
Appendices 119
1. Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative Self-Assessment Tool 121
CIMS
2. Having a Baby? 10 Questions to Ask 127
CIMS
3. Is Your Perinatal Practice Mother-Friendly? A Strategy for Improving
Maternity 131
Barbara A. Hotelling
4. Is Your Doula Practice Mother-Friendly? 137
Barbara A. Hotelling
5. Are Your Birth Classes Mother-Friendly? 139
Barbara A. Hotelling
6. Nitrous Oxide Use in the Intrapartum/Immediate Postpartum Period 141
Laurey Munch
7. Birth Can Safely Take Place at Home and in Birthing Center 149
Barbara A. Hotelling
8. Care of Incarcerated Women in Labor 157
Laura O. Houenou
Index 163