Interprofessional Education with Midwifery Students and Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents: What Difference Does It...
Do you think midwives and obstetrician-gynecologists will work together better in a collaborative and team-based way if they learn together during their professional programs?...
Support and Prevention of Midwives as Second Victims
Midwifery work often includes exposure to traumatic events. For example, intrapartum emergencies, terminal diagnoses, and maternal or perinatal death may occur. The trauma associated...
Implications of Race Among Pregnant People Experiencing Housing Instability
The relationship between housing instability and poor health outcomes has been extensively documented (Cutts, Coleman, Black, Chilton, Cook, de et al., 2015a; Levinson, Group...
Results of the 2019-2020 Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project
In November 2019, ACNM and the Developing Families Center (DFC) introduced the Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project. The vision of this project was to...
Launching Perinatal Health Equity: A Quality Improvement Project
The Bumpy Road to Perinatal Health Equity
The Paradox
In 1963, during “A Talk to Teachers,” James Baldwin described the paradox of education as, “precisely at...
Safely Reducing Cesarean Sections Utilizing the PROVIDE Toolbox in a Faith-Based Hospital
Our team determined that standardization, elevating the patient’s voice, and team engagement were the keys to reducing primary cesarean section rates. We chose to...
Changes in Home and Birth Center Birth During COVID-19
In March and April of 2020, our home birth practice phone rang constantly and email inquiries through our website came in multiple times a day....
Using Educational Resources Wisely During a Pandemic: Simulated Telehealth Visits to Develop Clinical Decision-Making...
The spring of 2020 is not a time that any of us will ever forget. Our professional and personal worlds went through unprecedented change...
Addressing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy
Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) during pregnancy is a condition in which there are not enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to the...
Racial Disparities in Immunizations and the New Maternal Immunization HEDIS® Measure
One of the best public health successes has been the reduction of infectious diseases through vaccination. Vaccinations have helped eliminate smallpox, largely eradicated polio,...