The Virtual Midwife

Improving midwifery students motivation and learning outcome in contraceptive course Erika Agung Mulyaningsih, Stikes Pemkab Jombang, Indonesia UNESCO said 73% of schools were closed for 3 months or more due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Face-to-face learning at Diploma III Midwifery Program has been stopped for more than 9 months. Efforts to achieve competence in Midwifery Education are a problem tha...

Promoting a positive norm towards planned home birth practice among midwives: A randomised controlled trial Auwalu Muhammed, Department of Nursing Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; Lee Khuan; Shariff-Ghazali Sazlina;  Salmiah Md Said; and Mairo Hassan, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia This study was to determine the ef...

Midwives' knowledge of pre-eclampsia management: A scoping review Midwives in poorly resourced settings are engaged in pre-eclampsia management and deliver lifesaving interventions depending on the prescribed scope of practice. Therefore, we aimed to produce a synthesized summary of what midwives from around the world know about pre-eclampsia management. Method: We utilized the Joanna Briggs Insti...

Nikoleta Chatzipanagiotidou, Midwifery Department, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Lupus is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs because it cannot tell the difference between viruses, bacteria, and other germs and the body’s healthy cells, tissues, or organs. Out of 1.5 million Americans with Lupus, 90% are women...

Marcela Mendoza es una obstetra peruana que actualmente reside en Australia. Esta es su tercera conferencia como facilitadora/moderadora y nos cuenta cómo ha sido su experiencia en estos últimos años desempeñando este rol. Que significa  Equidad de Nacimiento para Todos. Y también anima a personas interesadas a formar parte del equipo de facilitadores para las próximas conferencias del V...

Kaveri Mayra is a midwifery, nursing and public health researcher from India. She has over twelve years' research experience working on nursing and midwifery workforce policies and practice. Having seen mistreatment during childbirth early on as a student midwife and experienced the lack of leadership and decision making power to midwives and nurses, Kaveri started researching and advocating on th...

Niessa Meier is faculty in Frontier Nursing University’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice program where she teaches healthcare quality improvement. She maintains a clinical practice in Kerrville, Texas where she lives with her husband and three teenagers.

Catherine Shimechero is a certified soft-skills trainer and a personal performance coach. She believes that everyone has great potential to achieve their goals in life. She has the flair of bringing out the best in people making them appreciate their abilities from a new perspective which gives them self-encouragement and motivation. She is the founder and lead trainer of Seiso Consultancy in Nair...

Cindy L. Farley , CNM, PhD, FACNM, studied midwifery at Emory University. She earned her BSN and PhD from The Ohio State University and her MSN from Emory University. She is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University in the Nurse-Midwifery/ Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) programs. She serves as a locum tenens midwife for Pomerene Hospital, a rural hospital in Millersburg, Ohio, serv...

Sandra Oyarzo es matrona, Licenciada en Obstetricia y Master en Educación en Ciencias de la salud. Universidad de Chile.  Profesora Asociada del Departamento de Educación en Ciencias de la Salud (DECSA) de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile, vicepresidenta nacional del Colegio de Matronas y Matrones de Chile y además es la nueva  vice Presidenta de la Confederación Internacional de...

Te invitamos a conocer a nuestros invitados especiales para la Conferencia VIDM 2021, quienes estarán brindando un taller para estudiantes de obstetricia. En esta entrevista, ellos nos cuentan cómo ha sido su experiencia estudiando en tiempos de pandemia, qué significa "Equidad de Nacimiento para Todos" en su entorno, y porqué es importante formar parte de esta conferencia internacional.  We invit...

Soo Downe, BA(Hons), RM, MSc, PhD, OBE , University of Central Lancashire, UK Soo spent 15 years working as a clinical and research midwife. In .2001 she joined UCLan  where she is now the Professor of Midwifery Studies. Her main research focus is the nature of, and cultures around, normal birth. She has been a member of the Technical Working Group of the World Health Organization antenatal, intra...

Hannah Dahlen AM Hannah Dahlen is the Professor of Midwifery, Discipline Leader of Midwifery and Associate Dean (Research and Higher Degree Research) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. She has been a midwife for 30 years.  Hannah has over 200 published journal articles and book chapters and has strong national and international research partnerships. She has receive...

Catherine M. Salam, CNM, MS, FACNM lives in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. She retired from teaching and practicing midwifery. She was an Adjunct Assistant Professor as well as clinical faculty for Shenandoah University School of Nursing, a distance midwifery program. Prior to this appointment she was didactic and clinical faculty, and Interim Nurse-Midwifery Program Director at the University of Maryl...

Johanna is a mother of 2, a doula, hypnobirthing teacher and a pre and postnatal yoga instructor who gave birth in hospital 2 weeks into lockdown. Thanks to her birth work experience she was well prepared, but even so she faced a challenge towards the end of her pregnancy that almost changed her plans completely and could potentially have resulted in a very different outcome. I learned that it is...

An open hearted chat with Lori Mihalich-Levin about navigating the changes that come with having a baby when you are a successful and driven business person. She shares with is how and why she started Mindful Return and wrote her book Back to Work After Baby "The first year of each of my children’s lives were the hardest years of my life.  I fell madly in love with two little redheads, who turned...

Tristan put significant effort into being an awesome "daddy doula" and says that his biggest gift was knowing how to be fully present for Chanelle through her labor. He is in awe of the power of birth and was transformed by the exchange of energy during the pushing phase. Chanelle shares how Pethidine gave her a chance to get some rest and helped her through the most intense part of her labor. Bei...

Nicole was planning a hospital birth with her second baby due in April 2020 - which was predicted to be a busy time for hospitals due to Coronavirus. With the uncertainty of having to move rooms and the possibility of not being able to have her husband with her, they decided to have a home birth instead. It was not an easy decision to make and Nicole admits that her husband was initially concerned...

An interview with Marie Claire Balaam who submitted a poster presentation to the VIDM 2020 entitled A review of perinatal social support interventions for asylum seeking and refugee women resident in Europe In this interview you will learn more about  The presenters Why they chose this topic  The main message of the poster The key findings Where they see this research going.  Visit www.vidm.org fo...

An interview with Roisin Lennon who submitted a poster presentation to the VIDM 2020 entitled Normalizing Pregnancy and Birth Rates with Advanced Midwifery Practice in Sligo University Hospital In this interview you will learn more about  The presenters Why they chose this topic  The main message of the poster The key findings Where they see this research going.  Visit www.vidm.org for more inform...

An interview with Erika Agung Mulyaningsih who submitted a poster presentation to the VIDM 2020 entitled Early Detection of Post Partum Depression (PPD) in Women 1 - 2 weeks Post Partum.   In this interview you will learn more about  The presenters Why they chose this topic  The main message of the poster The key findings Where they see this research going.  Visit www.vidm.org for more information...

An interview with Denyse King who submitted a poster presentation to the VIDM 2020 entitled The VRLE Project Virtual Reality Learning Environments - reconfiguring healthcare education In this interview you will learn more about  The presenter Why she chose this topic  The main message of the poster The key findings Where she would like to see this research going.  Visit www.vidm.org for more infor...

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Getting to know Karen Wilmot - committee member for the VIDM 2020 My name is Karen Wilmot and I am a free spirited, entrepreneurial midwife living in Cape Town, South Africa. This is my first year on the VIDM committee and I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with change makers from around the world. I believe that the choices available to women about where they give birth and who attend...

Getting to know Linda - committee member for the VIDM 2020 I retired in 2013 after 43 years working for the NHS as a nurse and a midwife, and for the last 19 years in Higher Education as a midwifery lecturer. I  completed my student nurse training in London but moved quickly on to completing my  midwifery education in Worcestershire. I then spent several years working as a community midwife, holdi...