Hi Felicity
Try this one..
Gilmour, C. & Twining, S. (2002). Postnatal care in hospitals: Ritual, routine, or individualised. Australian Journal of Midwifery 15, (2)11-15.
Katrina :-)
(I had this for an assignment for uni and found it quite good)
On 07/12/2004, at 11:53 AM, cummins wrote:
Dear Jen
No, the Ob has not provided anything, only that this was the practice at the
tertiary hospital from where she came from, so it MUST be right! And where
I work, in the eyes of management, Obs are right until proven wrong and
Midwives wrong until accepted after lots of fighting.
Felicity
Enkin et al. in A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy
& Childbirth state:
"Routine [postnatal] Observations: Making & recording
regular measurements of Temp, pulse, bp, fundal
height, lochia & the various wounds that a woman may
sustain during birth, is still common practice in the
days follow
Dear List
Sorry to go back over old ground (message sent by
Mel Dunstan 17/11/04), but I really need your help in a Obs V Midwives battle
against doing postnatal observations. About 4 years ago we ceased doing
postnatal observations on all 'normal birth' postnatal women. Our
postnatal un
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> Hello Everyone
>
> Wondering If I can tap into your minds of wisdom.
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> We are currently fighting with a registrar at work regarding post natal
> observations. At present i
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Iam currently on the postnatal ward at the wch in adelaide and the
postnatal obs they do there are 4/24 for the first 24 hours then bd
then daily of tpr and bp followed by ususal postnatal checks of the
woman. you can fin
e beneficial.
Tania
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> Wondering If I can tap into your mi
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> Hello Everyone
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> Wondering If I can tap into your minds of wisdom.
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> We are curren
Hello Everyone
Wondering If I can tap into your minds of wisdom.
We are currently fighting with a registrar at work regarding post natal
observations. At present if a woman has had a normal vaginal birth with no
complications either antenatally or during the birth we do not routinely
take BP, P
