Midwifes Apprentice

This essay demonstrates significant factors, a midwife and the women may face within Australian public hospitals. As a midwife the key skills are understanding of what supports and impacts the normal physiological process of labour and birth. This essay will discuss two influencing factors that have a negative effect on the normal progress of labour and birth. This will be seen, firstly by discussing the cultural and environmental impacts of labour and birth. Then, examining how the midwife may best support and facilitate the adverse effects of normal physiological process. This essay also discusses a positive labour and birth environment within the Australian standard model of care.

Nevertheless, the protagonist showed satisfaction, she described how even the smell was parsimony to the orange and pine - "I found it reassuringly seasonal, like the smell of oranges and pine needles" (Munro 2). However, she is forced to work with her mother in the kitchen, just because she was a woman and had to learn and make the woman work inside the house, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer "(Munro 14), that is what she meant when she had to do something she did not enjoy. The woman as opposed to the man had a restriction of what work could be performed and was suitable for her, just as in story, she could not realize her desires because even if she helped her father even so her help was nothing compared to the help from his brother who was a

A baby was just born at 26 weeks gestation. Just over half the normal 40 weeks a baby should stay inside the mother. The baby is immediately whisked away and taken to be evaluated and prepared for a long journey ahead. Ever since I could remember babies and the nursery at the hospital have fascinated me. Whenever we would go visit a friend who had a baby, I would find myself peaking over the windows into the nursery. I have known for a while that working in the neonatal intensive care unit is what I want to pursue. Recently I have been looking into nurse practitioners and furthering my education beyond my BSN. Being able to care for these infants in the most critical stages of their life, and being able to provide them the support they need to survive outside the womb seems so satisfying . Neonatal nurse practitioners have years of education, deep history, detailed job description, high demands and some legal issues.

The theme of the book is although times can be difficult you have to continue and push forward and patience will have good results.

A labor and delviery nurse has vast knowledge of the process and methods that are required for delivery and bring a new life into the world and is educated with the responsibilities of assiting the new born babies with their medical issues. Considering all the responsibilites needed to take on this career, such as assisting women with complications within the pregnancy, delivering a newborn and managing post birth issuses, the nurse must be professional in his or her work at all times. All people wishing to pursue the career of being a Labor and Delivery Nurse must also have good analytical skills, as part of there job to montior and analyze the mother and child (CollegeAtlas.org).

The narrator is given a sense of oppression from the beginning of the story by keeping a hidden diary from her husband as “a relief to her mind.” Throughout the story her true thoughts are hidden from the readers and her husband, which gives the story a symbolic perspective.

Adeline's life is not only joyless but she always feels isolated because her loved ones were taken from her at a young age. She has no one to comfort her in her times of need and despair. She has to endure this desolate and sadness when she should be enjoying a carefree life.

There is increasing awareness of perinatal mental health as a public health issue. The Government is keen for midwives to further develop their role in public health. Midwives need to be adequately prepared to take on a more developed role in perinatal mental health if practice improvements are to be made. I am aware that death from psychiatric causes has been the leading cause of maternal death for the last few years. Although the most recent Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health indicated that this is no longer a leading cause, mental health problems before and after childbirth have a significant impact on the health of women, family relationships and children’s subsequent

There is a wide range of what a Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse can provide, such as planning a care system, taking vitals, monitoring patients, teaching them to care for their newborn, performing tests, recording, and charting information about patients, helping deliver a baby, and consulting with staff; just to name a few.

Laurel Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale is the personal history of a typical New England woman, living and accommodating to the impending changes brought on by the creation of the American Republic. Martha Ballard’s story is then used by Ulrich to portray a larger history of the time period. By a comprehensive look into the diary of Martha Ballard, which contains over 9,000 entries written in daily by Martha over a twenty-seven year period, Laurel Ulrich is able to shed light on the day-to-day responsibilities of women, daughters, midwife’s, and families that all lived together in the years following America’s war for independence. The three decades covered in her diary entries were years of transformation for American society on many levels, such as medicine, religion, and family life.

In his essay History: A Very Short Introduction, historian John Arnold argues that it is naïve to think of history as merely a recounting of objectively-defined past events. Rather, history is really a complex mixture of combining sources, asking questions, considering biases, and relating events to a larger picture. This historical research process is largely illustrated in the documentary A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A Midwife’s Tale explores the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in 18th and 19th century Maine, through the woman’s diary and other sources. Ulrich uses these sources to construct an almost complete narrative of Martha Ballard’s life and to connect it with the broader historical context of Ballard’s time and geography, in a manner that exemplifies Arnold’s historical inquiry process.

The final scenes of the movie illustrate the racial injustice Aibileen receives when she exposes The Junior League Women’s Society with the book. Hilly, the president of the Junior League, is outraged at the disrespect she believes Aibileen displays in revealing the true character of the white women of Jackson. Hilly accuses Aibileen of stealing silverware, and makes naive Elizabeth fire her on the spot. However, Elizabeth fails to take into account the needs of her daughter who is dependent on Aibileen for nurturing and compassion because Elizabeth herself fails to provide motherly affection. Aibileen begs Elizabeth not to fire her for the sake of the toddler, but to no avail.

Once she is “married” to Mr. Albert she stays in her abusive world until she meets a woman who teaches her all new things. Later on she finally stands up for herself and leaves Mr. Albert to live her own life. Then when she comes back she

Throughout the short stories, characters endure circumstances that allow them to realize the unfairness of the world, ultimately causing a change in attitude. In “Souvenir,” the protagonist finds herself in a shop purchasing a pack of condoms for her mentally ill boyfriend while being followed by an old man. With the belief that sacrificing something precious of herself such as her virginity, the teenager initially felt that her love could save him from his mental illness. Those in the store around her, however, forced humiliation upon her, especially the elderly man. Finally becoming aware to those around her, she has an epiphany of those surrounding her in addition to the society she lives in. Witnessing the differences in people’s behaviors and attitudes, she grasps the understanding that people are influenced by others

Hearing the word midwife leaves many people thinking of unprofessional, inexperienced women who help deliver babies naturally, without the help of medication. In truth, nurse-midwives are registered nurses who have attended additional schooling for women’s health and are taught to make women feel as comfortable as possible. In the beginning, remedies were the females’ legacies, their “birthright”; these females were known as “wise-women by the people, witches of charlatans by authorities”. (Ehrenreich, 1973). “Females were wanderers, traveling from one place to another, healing the sick and wounded.” (Ehrenreich 1973). These women were among the first human healers and they were especially helpful when it came to childbearing. The midwives