Influence Of Life Saving Skills (Lss) By Trained Nurses And Midwives On Maternal Mortality In Bauchi State

📄 Project Abstract

Skilled care during pregnancy, child delivery, and immediately after the delivery is important because it saves lives of millions of women and newborns and prevent serious and hard to predict complications during pregnancy, delivery or immediately after delivery. Life Saving Skills (LSS) has been in practice by nurses, since 1992, to address maternal mortality and morbidity. However, it is not clear as to what extent the training of nurses and midwives in LSS has contributed to the reduction of maternal mortality in Bauchi state. This study was conducted to find out the influence of nurses and midwives trained in LSS on Maternal Mortality in Bauchi state. To achieve the purpose of the study a questionnaire on a contribution of midwives and nurses trained in LSS was prepared and standardized. The questionnaire contained five sectionssection one on demography's of the respondents and two to four on contribution of LSS trained midwives and nurses to reduction of maternal mortality and mor...