The road to Zanzibar
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The training of student midwives on the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania, East Africa, is examined. Only females can be trained in midwifery. Students must complete one year's compulsory midwifery after three years' nurse training. Thirty normal and 10 complicated deliveries must be performed by qualifying student midwives. Funding is a large problem within Zanzibar's health service. Midwives usually perform breech deliveries, with students taught to carry out suturing and episiotomies. No pain relief and few drugs are used. English is used for all college training, with most training undertaken in hospital. Health education and prevention of disease were the prime objectives of students on village placements.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Learning practice
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Midwifery training should include more instruction in basic midwifery skills early on in the course, according to a survey of student midwifes at Queen Charlotte's College of Health and Science, London, UK. The students expressed a need for adequate and varied clinical placements, supportive tutors, good learning resources, courses which are more academically challenging, and guidance on clinical practice from mentors. The students also disliked bigger intakes of students, backed the idea of teaching by a multi-disciplinary team, and wanted more recognition of their professional status.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1993
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Education under fire: student-staff ratios is a controversial topic for midwifery
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Research into how staff-student ratios (SSRs) were calculated in nursing and midwifery, found there was no standardised way fo calculating SSRs and the resulting report recommended further examination of funding systems in planning courses. The ENB decided to remove the 1:10 and 1:15 staf-student ratios, altering the ENB Regulations and Guidelines for Approval of Institutions and Courses document. Midwifery has become a higher education sector, involving restructing of education departments.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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