What's the difference between midwifery and tocology?
Midwifery
Definition:
(n.) The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
(n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(2) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(3) An overly bureaucratic approach to midwifery is not just letting mothers down – it's putting the whole profession under strain.
(4) The purpose of the 1988 Mini-Survey was the collection of up-to-date data from the ACNM membership, focusing on nurse-midwifery income.
(5) The integrated unit, which shared midwifery staff with the consultant unit, seemed to work well.
(6) This paper is an account of the process of identifying a college of nursing and midwifery corporate philosophy.
(7) Nice added that commissioners should ensure that women have all four possible options for giving birth available to them: hospital care, midwifery units in hospitals, midwifery units based in the community and at home.
(8) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(9) To evaluate the effectiveness of nurse-midwifery care in this sample, a prospective study of the service's 496 singleton birth outcomes during 1990 was undertaken.
(10) Midwives have contended that midwifery and obstetric workloads could not be measured and that only a 1:1 ratio of mother to midwife should occur, at least in the labour ward environment.
(11) The problem of raising the quality and effectiveness of medical care in the agricultural region of the country is being considered from the point of view of systems approach where a priority is given to the formation of a common modern scientific technology of delivering medical care different from feldsher-midwifery units to specialized centres.
(12) Achievement of these goals requires an expansion of both supply and functions of midwifery personnel.
(13) The report acknowledges these communities' concerns about a midwifery project, notes problems in determining accurate perinatal data for these locales, and indicates the need for comprehensive maternal-child care which is commensurate with these peoples' customs and beliefs.
(14) This technique can be useful in a nurse-midwifery practice in the management of a retained placenta or prolonged third stage of labor.
(15) Air sac midwifery technique is developed in this hospital to cut down the duration of labor (birth process).
(16) Age and previous nursing experience with midwifery patients or neonates were found to be significant factors associated with the prevalence of antibodies to CMV in staff applicants.
(17) In order to design a quality assurance tool for midwifery it was necessary to assess current frameworks and standards for practice.
(18) The U.S. needs far less money spent on surgical obstetrics, and more resources invested in a large, strong, independent midwifery profession.
(19) This article explores sources of bad feelings about research and suggests ways forward in the training of nurse and midwifery tutors, considering course planning and teaching methods, and peer support in and out of the classroom.
(20) In designing the curriculum for pre and post registration midwifery courses, the author has utilised an andragogical model.
Tocology
Definition:
(n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hexoprenaline is a selective beta 2-mimetic drug used in tocology for the prevention of premature labor and immature birth.
(2) The success rate for hexoprenaline tocolyses is 34-78%, dependent on the initial tocological condition.