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Maternal Health

Leslie MacTaggart Myers
By Kathy Wodicka, 20 August 2010
Leslie MacTaggart Myers credits MCH academy for leadership support.
Talk not enough to meet U.N. health goals, says nurse leader
By James E. Mattson, 04 August 2010
Social determinants, not disease management, are key. (open access)
Maternal-Child Health Leadership Academy
03 August 2010
Honor society announces 2010 participants
Patsy Harman, nurse-midwife: Serving out of love
By Barbara Bennett, 30 April 2010
This bestselling author has devoted her life to caring for women.
Classroom with a (world)view
By Savitri Singh-Carlson, 20 January 2010
Exposure to diverse public health settings fosters student passion and understanding.
UN agency rushes maternal health supplies to Haiti
14 January 2010
Pregnant women especially vulnerable following earthquake
Miracle on 13th Street
18 December 2009
She arrived five weeks before Christmas, delivered with the help of a senior nursing student who “happened” to be doing her OB clinical rotation.
Nurse counseling accelerates healing after miscarriage
15 October 2009
Men and women often experience grief differently.
Task force to explore delivery of MCH Academy in Africa
10 September 2009
Five African nurse leaders to participate in discussions at 40th Biennial Convention
By Cindy Dashnaw, 20 August 2008
When Valarie Ricks was accepted into the Maternal-Child Health Leadership Academy, her planned leadership project was to create a team to adapt the perinatal education program to support the needs of underserved urban patients.
By Leslie Flowers, 03 September 2007
They say, what goes around comes around. Anne Ryder, keynote speaker at the 39th Biennial Convention in November, found that when you open up and take time to connect with another person, you receive a gift that stays with you for life.
By Leana Ria Uys, 01 December 2006
Fifty years after nursing education became part of the curriculum in a South African institution of higher education, the author reflects on what has been achieved and challenges her colleagues to reach even further.
By Barbara A. Parfitt, 03 March 2006
Barbara A. Parfitt, secretary-general of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery Development, discusses some of the negative influences of globalization and how the WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery Development are working to offset those influences by focusing on the ideals of equity, justice, participation and empowerment embodied in the Declaration of Alma-Ata.