Module 04:
Promoting Respectful Maternity and Newborn Care
Welcome to the fourth module in the ERMC course. This module has been developed to further your knowledge of the consequences of disrespectful care for women during labor and birth and ways to promote ERMC. A list of resource requirements to promote ERMC is also provided, as well as an example of a case scenario of providing ERMC. Finally, this module will end with a post-course completion survey that includes reflection on equity and respect in maternity care.
Module 04:
Promoting Respectful Maternity and Newborn Care
Welcome to the fourth module in the ERMC course. This module has been developed to further your knowledge of the consequences of disrespectful care for women during labor and birth and ways to promote ERMC. A list of resource requirements to promote ERMC is also provided, as well as an example of a case scenario of providing ERMC. Finally, this module will end with a post-course completion survey that includes reflection on equity and respect in maternity care.
Reflection of the Actions using Bass Holistic Reflection
In this assignment, you will be asked to reflect on a situation during your clinical experience where you witnessed disrespectful or abusive care to a woman during labor and birth.
This reflection is based on the Bass model of reflection, which includes guides and prompts for 5 phases of reflection (Bass et al., 2017).
Reflection is one of the key learning methods endorsed by professional, statutory, and regulatory bodies to enhance the development of knowledgeable and competent practitioners (Nepal et al., 2019; Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016).
Reflection provides you an opportunity to explore practice experience and integrate existing knowledge with newly developed insights and understanding (Thorpe, 2004).
Further, reflection enhances creative and critical thinking avoiding routine approaches to care due to unexamined knowledge and practice (Thorpe, 2004). Reflective learning promotes deep personal and transformative learning (Bass et al., 2017).
This activity will enable you to explore the actions and subsequently learn from your practice experiences.