Point Fortin Case Study

* Pre - birth conference was held to establish the issues surrounding the mother, her pregnancy and her parenting skills. Mother did not attend. The pre – birth conference attended by the CDAT key worker, safeguarding midwife, health visitor, GP, social worker. The pre – birth conference took place as mum was concealing her pregnancy and that she was heavily

Once the patients arrive to the unit, if the person belongs to either scheduled induction or C-Section, they are provided with a delivery room. If the patient does not belong to previously mentioned categories, and about to deliver, she is moved to a delivery room. One final category is, where patients come in because they feel that they are about to be in labor or the patients that experience various pregnancy related complications. These patients are monitored by the nurse, seen by the physician and put under observation. If any of those observation patients are about to go into labor, they will be moved to delivery room. The rest of the patients will be treated and discharged. A quick registration will be done for all patients as soon as they enter the unit. Additional documentation for triaged patients will be done after they are moved to triage. For patients in labor or C-Section, it will be done earliest of patient’s

Defining premature birth is much more than just a denotative phrase. It is not just a preterm birth, or a baby born early. It is a life-changing event, and something that affects millions of people worldwide. The intense quiet room with heart monitors beeping, as parents see their baby and are devastated. Loved ones can not feed them or kiss them nor, can they not hold them or hug them. They do not get the same experience as others. Little miracles lay inside these cubes where multiple wires are help keeping them alive. A place where prayers happen, and where all hope for the best. Nobody knows the true pain and struggle behind a preterm birth and it needs to be discussed. Prematurity is a serious conflict; therefore, it needs more awareness as many families are facing this tough situation.

Childbirth is one of the greatest privileges on the earth anyone could have and we, as women, should feel proud to be major contributors for it. Thus, a mother has to play a key role in aiding the healthcare workers to mitigate the health crisis associated with childbirth by performing her duties faithfully. One such associated health crisis is “Premature (preterm) birth” which occurs when the baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of gestational period (CDC, 2015). The rate of preterm birth ranges from 5% to 18% of babies born across 184 countries (WHO, 2015).

Early prenatal care is extremely important for the future baby's health. Although prenatal care is funded by the Provincial and Federal Governement, not all women receive prenatal care on Prince Edward Island. This could be as simple as not being able to get transportation to

Maternity care in the United States is in jeopardy. There is an increasing trend of shortages of obstetrician-gynecologists and family physicians that once provided vital maternity care. With almost half of the nation’s counties lacking an obstetric provider, approximately ten million women are affected. Obstetricians-gynecologist themselves are also feeling the burdens of the understaffed hospitals and clinics with prolonged work hours. These medical professionals who dedicate their very lives to the field and the care of women are under a great amount of pressure and stress due to the shrinking workforce. Furthermore, interest amongst the youth is necessary in order to have an ample amounts of physicians available to replace the increasing

Carla Keirns dwells upon a problem of unnecessary cesarean deliveries performed only for urgent clinical reasons. As a diabetic expectant mother, she was going to deliver her first

Pregnant mothers are viewed as a business made for doctors and hospitals as insurances typically cover infant birth and hospital bills. As Patricia Burkhardt, Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Midwifery Program could not speak the truth any better, she states, “Hospitals are a business. They want those beds filled and emptied. They don’t want women hanging around the labor room.”

The author is a nurse in a level two trauma facility in a community of approximately fifty thousand people in Oregon. The community is a college-town surrounded by a large agricultural area. There is a minimal ethnic diversity within the community. The diversity present occurs mainly from internationally students and faculty from the college. There is a growing population of women who desire low interventional births in the community. The author has worked on the labor and delivery unit of the hospital for the last 14 years. The hospital is the only one in the area to offer trial of labor services to women who have previously undergone a cesarean section. The unit on average experiences around 1000 deliveries annually.

The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) conducted a study in January 2013, this study confirmed the long standing belief that midwife-led birth centers provide a safe and effective health care option for women during pregnancy, labor, and birth. Greenville Health Systems (GHS) listened and embraced the tenet of becoming the “health care value leader in the region” by proposing the construction of a three room freestanding birthing center operated by Greenville Midwifery Care. After almost one year of service to the community, the plan is to open a second birth center near the Patewood Memorial Hospital.

Ms Lisa Kay was a worker in a Rehabilitation Center called Grande Point, when a frequent flyer came back to he facility because to an incident he was involved in in a hospital he was in. He was put in a restraint chair at Grande Point for the first few days. After that Grande Point let him out. He had some sort of breakdown and Ms. Kay heard another worker in the same room as the Resident yelling, so she went in. The resident grabbed Ms. Kay by the wrist, dragged her down the hall, punched her in the face, threatened to kill her, and threw her across a room.

According to “Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America,” women and couples planning the birth of a child have decisions to make in variety of areas: place of birth, birth attendant(s), medication, preparedness classes, circumcision, breast feeding, etc. The “childbirth market” has responded to consumer concerns, so its’ important for prospective consumers to fully understand their options. With that being said, a woman has the choice to birth her child either at a hospital or at home. There are several differences when it comes to hospital births and non-hospital births.

The Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center (HOH) is a pregnancy resource center located in the triangle area. HOH has two centers, one located in Fuquay Varina, NC and the other located in Raleigh, NC. The Raleigh location center is not called Hand of Hope but rather Your Choice Pregnancy Center. HOH truly gives the preborn a chance to live. Since HOH is a Christian based organization, the company believes that life starts at the moment of conception. Because of this, HOH uses the moment of each client finds out they are pregnant to truly assess the positive factors of choosing life for the child. HOH offers a variety of services to a woman and male experiencing the gift of life. These services include but do not limit to: free pregnancy screening and tests, ultrasounds, life

In 2005, hospital received the international recognition as a baby friendly birth facility from the World Health Organization (unknown author, 2007). The hospital is eligible to participate in Medicare and Medic aid and is in compliant with the program requirements.

We do not know if there are technical problems or they do not think this is necessary, but because of this problem, actual costs driven by area used for natural birth services cannot be calculated. The maternity ward’s space is used as substitution, but the costs are overestimated, because the calculation is to take the maternity ward’s space and divide it by total hospital square feet to get a percentage, then times the total overhead cost for the portion, since the maternity ward house both natural birth and other patients, the percentage of natural birth patients’ area is actually much smaller. Overestimated total cost will lead to an overestimated