Safina Shakeel Ali
The Aga Khan Hospital for Women, Pakistan
Title: Leading change and promoting safe and high quality care by enhancing midwives’ knowledge, ability & competency about “Care for women in labor & newborn.â€
Biography
Biography: Safina Shakeel Ali
Abstract
Objectives: To assess and improve the knowledge, ability and competency in “Care for women in labor & new born” among two groups of Midwives from four secondary hospitals of Karachi and Hyderabad.
Methods: Two workshops were arranged for registered midwives who were working in labor room with greater than 1 year experience in 1st and 2nd qt of 2015. 1st workshop was arranged during Feb 10-11, 2015 in which 31 participants attended. The workshop content consist of normality of pregnancy, antenatal care, stages & care of labor, CTG interpretation, immediate new born care, assessment and neonatal resuscitation. The data were collected by taking pre and posttest in which multiple choice questions, True/False, match the column, interpret the CTG traces and short question answers were included. The pre and posttest were checked by using prepared keys. This workshop results were not up to the mark so, 2nd workshop was arranged with some major modification like: 3 days of workshop was conducted during April 28-30, 2015 in which 23 participants attended; Pre and posttest were modified and, more time was allocated for study time and the results were good this time.
Results: 1st group scored 6.45% in pre-test and 26% in post-test while 2nd group scored 47.8% in pre-test and 74% in post-test.
Conclusion: Therefore the mentioned results suggest that there is presence of areas of weakness in both the groups and the need of continuous enrichment of their education because they are the future health care providers who provide safe and high quality care to the patients.