Midwifery: Models of Care and Iron Deficiency Anaemia

Midwifery

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Models of care available to the woman..................................................................................1
Midwifery group practice model of care for woman with iron deficiency anaemia..............1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Midwifery refers a health professional and midwife refers a trained professional who assist
women with pregnancy, childbirth as well as postpartum period for making them able to
maintain a healthy pregnancy (Homer and et.al., 2019). This present study is going to show
importance and effectiveness of GP shared and standard hospital maternity care in which women
with pregnancy is being given special treatment and care facilities for improving health.
Models of care available to the woman
Midwifery refers health science that deals with women with pregnancy, child birth and
postpartum period in order to improve health of women and helping them out in maintaining
healthy pregnancy. There are different models of care which are being developed for women.
Main 2 models of care include:
GP shared care: General practitioner shared care is one of the best models care in which refers
an arrangement between hospital and local healthcare professional. In this type, women can have
some antenatal appointments with their local providers and some with hospitals as per the
suitability and affordability. It is being only given to women with low risk pregnancies (Symon
and et.al., 2017). In Australia, for making this care successful obstetric training is being given to
professionals.
Standard hospital maternity care: It is other model of care in which safe maternity care is
being provided to women which include: antenatal care, pre pregnancy services, impatient care,
vulnerable women, fatal medicine, perinatal loss and many more. By making use of standards
developed for this care they meet needs of women and deliver safe maternity care (Sandall and
et.al., 2016).
As compare to shared care, standards model care do not allow women to visit their local
professional as all types of maternity related care is being given in hospital under developed
standards. In GP shared care, majority of health care services is being provided by local
practitioner by visiting hospital at beginning and later part of pregnancy by them.
Midwifery group practice model of care for woman with iron deficiency anaemia
Anaemia is one of the most common disorder in pregnancy as pregnant women require 2-3 fold
increment requirement of iron as well as folate requirement. But most of the women face
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