A qualitative assessment of ante-natal care provided by auxillary nurse midwives.
Two hundred sixty eight antenatal mothers were observed for the quality of services provided by Auxillary Nurse Midwives (ANMs). History taking was found to be satisfactory in only 2.6% women. Obstetric examination was done unsatisfactorily in majority (52.6%) of the mothers. General physical examination was not done in 69% women. ANMs in all 31 sub-centres were not performing investigation like haemoglobin estimation, urine testing, foetal heart sound monitoring and blood pressure recording.
Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
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D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000592:standards; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000592:standards*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011787:Quality of Health Care