blankev wrote on Wednesday, March 27, 2013:
This is what WIKI has to say about your profession:
A practitioner of midwifery is known as a midwife, a term used in reference to both women and men, although the majority of midwives are female. In addition to providing care to women during pregnancy and birth, many midwives also provide primary care to women, well-woman care related to reproductive health, annual gynecological exams, family planning, and menopausal care.
In comparison with the pencil and paper you have to decide what will be your future. A tablet of I-pad like devise. Synchronize your work on the go, or once a day with the main Server idea. Even on a tablet OEMR will run, but this will means that your assistant must have either your tablet or is in need of a synchronized copy on another tablet.
Since the original idea of OEMR was to make it available world wide I prefer to stick to some kind of Internationalization like WHO/PAHO/UNESCO Etc, or most probably even with May Gaskin who might give even better care and include better control mechanisms than the bare basics used by huge above mentioned International Organizations.
For the FLOW-SHEET I imagine the following:
(-1. Minus one. Give pre-conception counseling to mother and father for a healthy approach to pregnancy.)
1. Give care to mother and unborn baby
2. Give care to the mother and baby in the transition state of being separated to give rise to two persons, i.e. mother and child.
3. a. Give care to the mother after birth, 3. b. give care to the child after birth.
4. Take care if needed of the whole family in times of post delivery depression or other well observed cases.
Let me know your thoughts.
For the time being I will use CTRL-TAB to switch between Google-Calender and OEMR. ;-))
ADVISE: Keep exploring, it is a great way of keeping your professional standards up to date and beyond.
Gr. Pimm