Pursuing The OB-GYN Practice In Ithaca

The author is a nurse in a level two trauma facility in a community of approximately fifty thousand people in Oregon. The community is a college-town surrounded by a large agricultural area. There is a minimal ethnic diversity within the community. The diversity present occurs mainly from internationally students and faculty from the college. There is a growing population of women who desire low interventional births in the community. The author has worked on the labor and delivery unit of the hospital for the last 14 years. The hospital is the only one in the area to offer trial of labor services to women who have previously undergone a cesarean section. The unit on average experiences around 1000 deliveries annually.

The team at North Coast OB/GYN operates with a simple mission—to provide the highest possible care to their clients while maintaining a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. Their routine care services focus on promoting wellness with preventative healthcare, and they use this philosophy to encourage continued health at every stage of life—even into menopause. From walking a patient through their first gynecological exam to providing sensitive testing for

They can commit to excellence by creating a great working environment for physicians; through efforts such as having plenty of medical supplies in the hospital and offering reasonable pay. When there are available equipment physicians, and other hospital staff remain motivated to carry out their duties and, therefore, will put effort to excel in all their duties; to promise patient satisfaction. Again, medical facilities can create excellence by having a suitable environment for continued learning; seeing as the medical world is full of new discoveries and research findings. Continued learning ensures that the practices that physicians undertake remain important; thereby ensuring that patients feel that they receive high quality services when they visit a hospital (Marley, 2004,

The quality of care remains an important element of the care process. Although major improvements have been made within the healthcare, the delivery of quality care has remained questionable. Patients are the source of the important insights on the quality of care, which forms the basis for effective improvement. In addition, the experience of the patients is the basis for understanding the quality of care. Health care can be argued to meet the quality of care standards if the experiences of the patients are positive. Given the important role that patients’ experience is high, other aspects of the care process can be said to be positive (Beattie, Murphy, Atherton & Lauder, 2015). The experience is the view of the patients about the quality of care. The views have an important role to play and should be taken into consideration in the hospital improvement plans. Valid and reliable information on patients’ experience is useful in care improvement plans.

An argument for the case of minimal medicalized intervention during birth can be made in terms of low-risk pregnancies and reserving medical interventions for high-risk deliveries and emergency situations. The purpose of this paper is to ensure that members of the childbearing community, including healthcare professionals, are familiar with alternative interventions to cesarean section and thoroughly consider the risks and benefits of said interventions so that natural child-birthing methods can be promoted in low-risk situations.

The field gives physicians the opportunity to help hundreds of women going through pregnancy, assisting with the miracle of life, and caring for the overall health of many women. Obstetrics and gynecology have the highest levels of personal satisfaction in medicine from the wondrous joy of bringing new life into the world. Despite the benefits of this career, as well as the pure gratification of helping others, the field of OB-GYNs is currently facing critical issues that could jeopardize the future of the practice and more importantly, the health care of hundreds, if not thousands, of women. There is a current decline of physicians in the practice and many students are turned off from pursuing obstetrics and gynecology due to the long work hours, liability risks, and especially the lack of program funding. These core issues are deterring prospective students from pursuing a career and limiting the availability and quality of healthcare to

This article, Natural Childbirth doesn’t have to be a painful delivery written by Janelle green emphasizes that woman’s body is designed to birth babies and so, natural childbirth must be considered as a natural event. Natural childbirth (NCB) means laboring and delivering using no medication at all, rather depending on non-drug pain relief, such as hydrotherapy (using water in a shower or tub), massaging, breathing, visualization, meditation, position changes, and hypnosis. Moreover, non-drug pain relief methods are efficient due to these techniques interfere the sensory pathways to the brain that communicate pain, and also, this reducing catecholamines; so, can help the labor more calm and manageable. Experiencing labor pain doesn’t mean

North America’s childbirth conditions and practice have been revolutionized throughout time. Today, many aspects of childbirth are carefully inspected to create, in their opinion, the healthiest environment for the women and child. The vast majority of Americans birthing environment takes place at a “hospital, birthing-centers, and homes,” while “planned home births” are fewer then 1% of birth (347). When having a planned at home birth, a birthing center will bring all the required equipment to your

An obstetrician is a physician who has successfully completed specialized education and training in the specialties of pregnancy, delivery, and the care directly following childbirth. GYN is short for gynecology or for a gynecologist; a physician who specializes in treating diseases of the female reproductive organs. OB/GYNS can act as a woman’s primary doctor but they also specialize in care related to pregnancies and the reproductive system. Today, gynecology is focused largely on disorders of the female reproductive organs. The purpose of this research paper is to inform the reader of the requirements that are needed to become an OB/GYN. These requirements will include the form of schooling necessary and how long it will take to obtain

There has been a long debate over which birthing method women should use today: natural versus medicalized. The World Health Organization defines natural birth as a vaginal birth without the use of any.. and medicalized birth as being .. However, medicalized births are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. The use of technology and medical interventions in the birthing process has increased despite the unchanged basic physiology of childbirth. One of the most common medical interventions in the birthing process is having a cesarean delivery. Despite the known risks of having a cesarean section performed, the rates of this procedure have increased much higher than the acceptable rate of 10-15% as recommended by the World Health Organization. This is due to the reason that cesarean sections are now being performed as a matter of convenience of the physician or at the request of the patient more often than being performed as a life-saving intervention. Thus making surgical and medicalized interventions a part of a common routine in the childbirth experience.

In addition, I plan on obtaining a Master’s degree in Public Health and become an Obstetrician/Gynecologist in my own women’s clinic located in an at-risk community. My clinic will not only provide health services to women of all age groups, backgrounds, and religion but also provided counseling programs to help women in career development and personal growth. My goal is to shift the perception of communities like my community from being perceived as solely at-risk to being perceived as a growing

Though men still dominate the medical field collectively (only sixty-four perfect of the doctors are male), the gender shift is intensifying. Most residents training obstetrics and gynecology are now women, in fact, eighty-two percent were women in 2010, where as fifteen years ago the majority of those residents were male. There are many reasons why a field of male OB-GYN’s transitioned into a field of female OB-GYN’s. Major change are occurring in the field itself that are making obstetrics and gynecology more attractive among females. A specialty once associated with busy days, long hours, and erratic schedules are now becoming a practice with less workload, limited work hours, and more control of one’s schedule, making

Marmor, T. R., & Krol, D. M. (2002). Labor pain management in the United States: Understanding patterns and the issue of choice. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 186(5, Supplement), S173 – S180.

Childbirth can be described as one of the most rewarding and also painful experiences in a woman’s life. Most women choose some type of method to ease pain, however, there has been a lot of controversy over with pain management method is the most effective. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), In 2013, there were 3,932,181 births recorded in the United States, 32.7% of those births were surgical procedures. In 2012, 1.36% of recorded births occurred out-of-hospital, meaning these births took place mostly in homes or birthing centers. Without the option of medicine that a hospital provides, how were these women able to manage their pain during labor and delivery. There are many different methods for easing pain during childbirth, some methods involve the use of medicine and surgery, and others include natural techniques, such as hypnosis, Lamaze, and many others. It is a personal preference of the parents over which method is right for the needs of the mother and child. This can be an overwhelming decision for new parents to make because they have to take into consideration the safety of the mother and child, pain management for the mother and desire for medical involvement.

I have always been interested in the healthcare field but it was not until my senior year in high school that I found obstetrics and women’s health. Now for the past four years I have committed myself to the field, searching and seizing all the possible opportunities to experience the field. My love of the field has grown deeper and deeper and I hope to continue to pursuit a medical doctorate specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. In the future, I hope to open my own obstetrics and gynecological practice in my hometown of Ithaca, NY. Currently there is only one OB-GYN practice in all of Ithaca and thus women have limited choice in who their doctors are. The OB-GYN practice in Ithaca currently has a monopoly. Having only one practice in