Striving for excellence: Nurturing midwives' skills in freetown, sierra leone

Midwifery

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1230-1234

  Ngongo, Carrie ^a   Christie, Kate ^b   Holden, Jude ^b   Ford, Carolyn ^b   Pett, Celia ^c  

^a EngenderHealth   (Kenya)

^b Aberdeen Women's Centre   (Sierra Leone)

^c ENGENDERHEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal and newborn mortality rate (MNMR); Millennium Development Goals (MDG); Skilled birth attendant; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROCEDURES; SIERRA LEONE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84884419408     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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