An email survey of midwives knowledge about CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) in Hannover and a skeletal framework for a proposed teaching program

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 481-486

  von Gartzen, Aleyd ^a   Hollins Martin, Caroline J ^b  

^a Midwife   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CytoMegaloVirus (CMV); Education; Lesson plan; Midwives; Preventing spread; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CURRICULUM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV); CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LESSON PLAN; MIDWIFE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; NURSING EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PREVENTING SPREAD; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV); EDUCATION; LESSON PLAN; MIDWIVES; PREVENTING SPREAD; TRANSMISSION;

CURRICULUM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MIDWIFERY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84881314040     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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