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| Title: | Domicillary midwifery and the public health nursing service |
| Authors: | Dempsey, Anne
Mulcahy, Helen |
| Publisher: | South Eastern Health Board (SEHB) |
| Issue Date: | 28-Jan-1998 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/246372 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | Domiciliary midwifery and the Public Health Nursing service are not nornally associated
together although this was not always the case. Therefore the impetus for this project
stems from a decision by the South Eastern Health Board (SEHB) to provide a service
for a client who had applied for a home confinement. The health board is obliged to
provide a service under the provisions of the Health Act 1970 (Department of Hea1th,
1970, Appendix 1.), and the provision of domiciliary midwifery services remains one of
the duties of Public Health Nurses (PHN's) (Department of Health, 1966), despite
negligible involvement in this area. The current role of the PHN is to deliver primary
health care to the population of a defined geographical area within the context of the
community care programme. The potential to care for pregnant women, according to the
World Health Organisation (WHO, 1985) extends beyond the system present today, the
shift of care must move from secondary to tertiary to primary care level. McMurray
(1993) states that as responsiveness to the needs of the community is the key feature of
primary health care, nurses working within this context must by definition 'change and
evolve in conjunction with the community and society" (p.320). |
| Keywords: | MIDWIFERY
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES |
| Appears in Collections: | SEHB Publications
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