Thanks for all your suggestions there are some good ones here i might look into.
I have started to research the topic of Elective caesarean (too posh to push). But i'm struggling on where to begin with how to plan my essay and quote books and references etc.
Is just quoting from the web and using other peoples book quotes etc OK?
There is a good section on it on the RCM website wich quotes numerous studies etc can i use this?

Thanks again
Jayne.

I would have thought that RCM was a very good place to start.
Also, try google scholars. It's a google search that brings up lots of articles and research papers. You can't always access the whole article but sometimes the abstract it brings up is enough.

Do you have access to athens at college/uni? If you do then you should be able to access lots of articles etc through this.


As for where to start, you could look at why some women choose electives. Have they had one before, are they scared of labour (past sexual abuse etc) did there best friend have one etc etc.

I think it's a fab topic to do it on, good luck

I have just had a look for you and I found these two. I've not read them (I should be doing me essays ) but they may be of some use to you.

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	elective 2.pdf (70.1 KB, 3 views)

Hi Sassy, thanks for these, the one on Elective CS related to affluance is just what i was looking for. I've nearly finished the essay so this will just help complete it.

Here's hoping it's OK!!!

Jayne X

Glad it's of some help

It wasn't until after I had posted that I relised this wasn't a recent thread and that it may be too late, but I thought that they could always come in for others too

omg i had an Episiotomy and wasnt even asked for consent omg omg x

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Hi, for one of my essays on ethics, we were given a scenario where a midwife came in to a delivery room to catch a baby, and as is 'common pratice' she saw tray with a drawn up syring of syntometrine, which she administered to the woman with the delivery of the anterior shoulder. Afterwards, she took the woman's blood pressure and it was 160/98. She checked the woman's antenatal records and noted that the woman had a history of raised blood pressure. After half an hour she rechecks the blood pressure which has settled to 136/85. The woman is transferred to the postnatal ward and there are no further complications. The midwife does not report the drug error. Discuss.
I used utilitarian and deontological theories to discuss and also the core medical ethics theories. The main thing I talked about here was whether it would have been ethical for the midwife to confess her error to the woman, as potentially she could have caused her blood pressure to increase and cause serious problems. And as nothing happened, would she be causing undue worry and distress to the woman who might have had a lovely birth experience up until that point? Mind you, probably not enough to talk about for 1500 words because I also had to discuss cultural and legal issues.

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I did this essay with the dlc and did mine on abortion

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