Step 3: provides culturally competent care: the coalition for improving maternity services:.
Step 3 of the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care insures that women receive care that is sensitive and responsive to the specific beliefs, values, and customs of the mother's ethnicity and religion. The rationale for this step and the evidence in support of its value are presented.
KAREN SALT is an author, childbirth educator, doula, and former cochair of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. She currently attends Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as a full-time doctoral student, specializing in nationalism, race, and gender studies .
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