HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Squatting Position, Vertically Transmitted Infection, Postpartum Period
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Week # 7: midwife preferred : maternity care in outpost nursing stations in northern. Expansion of nursing stations in northern ontario because of concern over infant mortality rates which were supposedly disproportionately higher in the north vs. the. First, government recognized the need to provide obstetrical services to northern communities but its intentions were consistently undermined by its inefficiencies in staffing the nursing stations with appropriate, sufficient qualified personnel. Second issue nurses had an opportunity to expand their skills in maternity care in an environment whether they had greater autonomy and professional authority than their southern canadian counterparts. Many of the settlements in the north are present only by plane and by season. Majority of the residents are aboriginal people but there are also non-aboriginal people. Nurses provided health care and regular visits to small surrounding settlements that did not have a nurse.
