Introduction: The Management Board of Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia is the institution responsible for writing national protocols for optimal nursing and midwifery practice. In Slovenia there is not enough guidelines that would lead midwives at their interventions and ensure equal midwifery care. Consequently, there is a great gap between theory taught at the faculty and clinical practice, which makes preparation of the students for their internship in a delivery ward much more difficult. Purpose: The main purpose of this thesis is to develop national protocols for management of the second and third stage of normal labour based on the recommendations of health organisations. This will help to ensure equal, quality, and safe midwifery care and help us to prepare an educational video, which will be used in midwifery education in the future. Methods: We used descriptive research methods and closely analysed recommendations of health organisations, such as: International Confederation of Midwives, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynacologists, The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Royal College of Midwives and World Health Organization. The protocols were developed by filling out the forms posted on Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia’s website. The recommendations written in a document: »Pravilnik o nacionalnih protokolih s področja zdravstvene in babiške nege ter oskrbe« have been followed. In this thesis we included one volunteer who signed the statement of informed and voluntary consent. We recorded the second and third stage of labour and the baby care in a labour room with a smartphone. The educational video was edited with VSDC Free Video Editor developed by Multilab LLC. Pictures were created by the author of this thesis. The music used in the educational video is a free, no copyright music downloaded from a YouTube channel Audio Library. Comments written in the educational video are linked to the results of this thesis. Diploma thesis was approved by the National Medical Ethics Committee. Regarding safety and personal data processing Patients' Rights Act, Personal Data Protection Act and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC« have been followed. Results: National protocol for the management of the second stage of labour describes monitoring mother’s and baby’s wellbeing, preparation of the woman and support during pushing, use of techniques for reducing perineal trauma and delivery of a newborn. National protocol for active management of the third stage of labour describes application of uterotonic, Apgar score assessment, encouraging skin-to-skin contact, mother and newborn labelling, cord clamping and cutting, delivery of the placenta, checking for the soft tissue injuries, placenta examination, controlling involution of the uterus and the amount of blood-loss. Discussion and conclusion: In this thesis we wrote the analysis of multiple recommendations for management of the second and third stage of labour. We developed two national protocols based on the findings of the analysis. Therefore, we set an important foundation for quality and safe midwifery care during the second and third stage of labour among all the midwives in the Republic of Slovenia. Furthermore, we created a good starting point for further research and national protocols' development. In addition, we used developed national protocols in the form of the educational video, which will help to close the gap between theory and practice and help to prepare students on their internship in maternity hospitals.
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