From: Development and validation of the code of ethics for midwives in Iran
Subcategory | Code |
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Greeting | Introducing and using the identification card |
Giving explanations about the rooms and care processes | |
Welcoming the client on her arrival | |
Making a friendly communication | |
Creating a peaceful environment with a self-confident approach | |
Guiding the client | |
Privacy | Privacy protection |
Considering drape for covering the client’s lap during obstetric examinations | |
Providing maternity care in separate rooms | |
The private counseling of the client | |
Making a sense of security by considering privacy during the examination | |
The right of the client for taking care of in a private environment | |
Ensuring that no other people enter during the examination | |
Confidentiality | Preservation of physical and mental privacy |
The importance of confidentiality especially in the midwifery profession | |
Confidentiality regarding the examination results | |
Confidentiality about the client's records and information | |
Protecting women's information in the electronic transfer processes | |
Empathy | The importance of empathy |
Empathy with the clients in labor and delivery rooms | |
The value of empathy as the half of treatment | |
Security | Allowing the client to have companions |
Patiently interactions with clients in labor and delivery | |
Making friendly and respectful communication during the examination | |
Responsible for cleanliness and safety of equipment | |
Be kind to the client | |
Making the client feel comfortable | |
Respectful and non-biased care | Respectful care is the right of the client, especially in crowded centers |
Culturally appropriate communication | |
Providing care to all clients without any cultural biases | |
Providing care to everyone regardless of their illness, addiction, and problems | |
Provide care without a long waiting time | |
Providing respectful care regardless of the client's characteristics or problems | |
Respecting the clients' Opinions | |
Respecting the client's culture | |
The importance of respect and dignity for the clients | |
Communicate with respect and trust | |
Communication with honesty and intimacy | |
Decision Making | About the normal labor and delivery |
Initiating breastfeeding before episiotomy | |
To have no angiocatheter during normal labor and delivery | |
Giving informed consent throughout labor and delivery | |
Permitting the peripartum interventions | |
The clients' needs | Entry permission with the client's permission |
Obtaining permission for giving information to the relatives | |
Providing adequate explanations based on the client's needs | |
To have companion | |
Considering all health dimensions | |
Special needs of vulnerable clients | |
In exceptional circumstances, such as disasters and covid-19 pandemic | |
Reduce stress | By giving the necessary information |
Reducing stress during labor to prevent negative effects on breastfeeding | |
Patient treatment of clients for reducing stress caused by care processes | |
Providing quality care | To benefit the client |
Prevent harm | |
With up-to-date scientific information | |
Without discrimination | |
Based on the social justice | |
Providing information | Providing information according to the understanding of the clients |
Ensuring clients' understanding of taught topics | |
Giving information to the mother and answering her questions | |
Avoiding confusing the patient | |
Giving up-to-date information | |
Using teaching aid methods | |
Creating calm with proper counseling | |
Providing advice to the patient to create a sense of importance | |
Providing complete and up-to-date midwifery information | |
Providing clear information | |
Avoiding quick and unclear consultations | |
Giving information about maternal rights in the midwifery care-providing system | |
Using simple and sincere expressions due to the sensitivity of midwifery counseling topics | |
Counseling with patience to correct a misconception | |
Changing the harmful attitudes with rational reasons | |
Using an interpreter for non-local language speaker clients | |
Ask about the client's problems by making a friendly communication | |
To be trained in prenatal care such as nutrition, exercise, and breastfeeding | |
To receive explanations before and during any care process | |
|To be taught about the perinatal period and care from high school | |
To be informed about the advantages and disadvantages of family planning methods according to the conditions of the client's condition | |
To be informed about the mechanism of the action of the family planning methods | |
To be informed about the clients’ rights | |
Obtaining a signature after giving sufficient information to the client | |
Giving information for free and informed decision | |
Giving the information about advantages and disadvantages of the new technologies | |
Providers only make suggestions and are not decision-makers | |
Providers give information and the clients are decision-makers |