World day of the midwife: modern approaches to training
may 5 midwives in more than 50 countries around the world celebrate their professional holiday, established since 1992 at the initiative of the International Association of midwives. The labour of this category of physicians is indispensable, because midwives help babies to be born. The main goal of the festival is to raise awareness of the importance of the work of midwives. In the framework of the actions carried out in this day around the world, midwives organize marches, pitching tents in public areas offering free consultations and provide everyone with information on their activities. They also organize meetings, seminars and conferences, share experiences and talk about new advances in the industry, awarded the best workers of the profession. In countries where midwifery is well developed, raising money to help colleagues abroad. By decision of the International Confederation of midwives all the Days of midwives will be held under the motto: "the World is so much in need of midwives, as not needed yet never. According to Deputy chief physician of nursing " Zhytomyr regional perinatal center Tamara Gorno to become a professional midwife, one must possess theoretical and practical knowledge, and most importantly – to be able harmoniously to combine them in the process. Besides, specialist in obstetrics should be able to understand the complex medical equipment, medicines, methods of examination and relief. In recent years, Ukraine has built a modern perinatal centres and maternity hospitals, the updated technical basis. Apply a more personal approach to the management of pregnancy and childbirth, organized by individual delivery chamber joint stay of mother and child. The introduction of new medical technologies and training of specialists engaged in obstetric Department of many institutes and universities. Improved training of midwives, particularly in the Zhytomyr nurses Institute, which trains graduates of "Midwifery". Reference in Zhytomyr region there are about 13 thousand people (12 856) with the formation of a Junior medical specialist, of which 814 – specialty "Obstetric business". Among them, 240 midwives of the highest qualification category,120 midwives of the first category, and 92 midwives have the second qualification category of "Midwifery". The availability of midwives per 10 thousand population of the region is 6.5 %. This was reported in the Zhytomyr regional state administrationÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/