Episode 45 - Midwifery and Maternal & Child Health
This DVD is a compile of all the stories about midwifery and maternal and child healthcare nursing that have appeared on Nurse TV over the years.

Creative Birth
Midwifery and Art Converge in an innovative exhibition, The Art of Birthing.
Duration: Approx 6 mins
Location: Melbourne, VIC
No Milk Today
What happens when a mother finds that she can’t breast feed her newborn infant? We meet the midwives at a busy lactation clinic.
Location: Melbourne, VIC
No Milk Today
What happens when a mother finds that she can’t breast feed her newborn infant? We meet the midwives at a busy lactation clinic.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Werribee Hospital, VIC
Small Steps
We meet a midwife who works with drug-addicted mothers and discuss her experiences and her coping mechanisms.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Box Hill Hospital, VIC
Midwife Making Waves
Mary is a midwife at the Jessie McPherson Private Hospital. In 2004 she won an Australian Nursing Care Award for her PhD research, which is making a real difference to her patients.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Jessie McPherson Private Hospital, VIC
Babies, Babies, Babies
We meet Carly, a midwife in Queensland, who works with women in the hospital and the community.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Redland Hospital, QLD
Birth in the Red Centre
Location: Werribee Hospital, VIC
Small Steps
We meet a midwife who works with drug-addicted mothers and discuss her experiences and her coping mechanisms.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Box Hill Hospital, VIC
Midwife Making Waves
Mary is a midwife at the Jessie McPherson Private Hospital. In 2004 she won an Australian Nursing Care Award for her PhD research, which is making a real difference to her patients.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Jessie McPherson Private Hospital, VIC
Babies, Babies, Babies
We meet Carly, a midwife in Queensland, who works with women in the hospital and the community.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Redland Hospital, QLD
Birth in the Red Centre
We meet a team of midwives making a difference in Alice Springs.
Duration: Approx 7 minutes
Location: Alice Springs Hospital, NT
Woman Centred Care
Duration: Approx 7 minutes
Location: Alice Springs Hospital, NT
Woman Centred Care
Director of Nursing, Bobbie Carroll, talks about midwifery today and her vision for the future.
Duration: Approx 6 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Teens and their Babies
Duration: Approx 6 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Teens and their Babies
We visit a maternal & child health nurse who works with teenage parents at school and in their homes.
Duration: Approx 12 mins
Location: Geelong, VIC
Complex Families
Complex Families
We meet a maternal and child health nurse whose job takes her into Melbourne’s high rise commission flats. Her clients have complex problems including poverty, alcoholism, gambling and drug addictions.
Duration: Approx 12 mins
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Early Arrivals
We visit a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and meet some of the extraordinary nurses who work there. Duration: Approx 5 mins
Early Arrivals
We visit a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and meet some of the extraordinary nurses who work there. Duration: Approx 5 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Critical Babies
Sarah is a nurse in a busy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She looks after the tiniest, sickest little babies and provides much needed support for their parents.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Well Women
Some nurses are midwives but not all midwives are nurses. Two British midwives talk about how they look after women who are not sick and the differences in midwifery practice between Australia and the UK.
Duration: 6 minutes
Location: Sutherland Hospital, NSW
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Critical Babies
Sarah is a nurse in a busy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She looks after the tiniest, sickest little babies and provides much needed support for their parents.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Well Women
Some nurses are midwives but not all midwives are nurses. Two British midwives talk about how they look after women who are not sick and the differences in midwifery practice between Australia and the UK.
Duration: 6 minutes
Location: Sutherland Hospital, NSW
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