Jacqui Williams

Nursing and Midwiifery Council · Midwifery

Through the use of case studies, this article explains the purpose and importance of the use of advance care plans in care homes and the potential consequences of not having an advance care plan in place regarding the care of individual residents. It explores reasons why they may not be completed or used effectively, and considers why the design of...

Background Resilience has been considered a key personal characteristic for a healthcare professional to be able to cope with the demands of their profession. There is a paucity of research that has considered resilience in midwifery and none has used a resilience scale over the length of the midwifery programme. Methods A resilience scale was use...

Student midwives have to complete a demanding programme to become a midwife, and therefore it is questioned whether they need resilience to be successful. The study's aims were to explore whether resilience developed in one cohort of 25 undergraduate student midwives and what the concept of resilience meant to them. This study adopted a longitudina...

The following case studies describe the use of the Smith Medical implanted ports and Gripper huber needles. Smiths Medical produces a range of implanted ports that include the Port-A-Cath and P.A.S. Port Power P.A.C. systems. The ports are easy to implant, maintain and remove. They are lightweight and have features that are designed to reduce compl...

Portfolios are a frequently used tool for recording, cataloguing and presenting reflections for revalidation purposes, and are used by a number of healthcare professions. More recently, with the development of online resources, the webfolio has become more commonplace in midwifery undergraduate programmes. This article will review the literature in...

In higher education, the term ‘values-based learning’ is used to emphasise aesthetic, values-based knowing; that is, the art, rather than the science, of caring. In midwifery, aesthetic learning is premised on the creation of meaningful relationships and the use of knowledge and skills that recognise individuality and support humanity. Therefore, i...

Despite the obvious need for student midwives to be exposed to meaningful learning experiences that consider engagement in the wider context of international health care and the associated benefits, there is a lack of information on how this is achieved within midwifery curricula both nationally and internationally. At the University of Nottingham,...

Background: Student midwives face a number of challenges during their pre-registration programme, both academically and in clinical practice. Aims: This pilot study aimed to examine the role that resilience might play in supporting student midwives to continue on the midwifery undergraduate programme. Method: Five second-year student midwives vol...

Second-year student midwives attended a two-day interprofessional learning set based in a deprived area of an inner city. Through a case study model they considered how well the interprofessional team was meeting the clients' needs. The groups of students offered solutions to these complex cases. Through immersion within the locality and involving...

A 57-year-old man with symptoms and signs consistent with atypical pneumonia had epidemiologic and later serologic evidence of psittacosis pneumonia. Therapy with tetracycline resulted in rapid resolution.

Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed on a patient with disseminated strongyloidiasis and 4.5 X 10(7) cells/65 ml of lavage fluid were recovered. Eighty-five percent of cells were polymorphonuclear leukocytes; 15 percent were pulmonary alveolar macrophages. Rhabditiform larvae (1 X 10(4)) were recovered in 65 ml of lavage fluid. This is the first re...

Spine title: Language and stimulus equivalence relations. Thesis (M. Soc. Sc. Psychology)--University of Waikato, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62)