{"id":194,"date":"2014-08-31T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/?p=194"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:37:55","slug":"hannah-smith-14-works-as-midwifery-intern-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/2014\/08\/31\/hannah-smith-14-works-as-midwifery-intern-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Smith &#8217;14 Works as Midwifery Intern in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the healthcare internship community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worktheworld.com\/\">Work the World<\/a>, nursing alumna Hannah Smith\u00a0spent three weeks this summer as a midwifery intern at Mount Meru Regional Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. She witnessed\u00a0over 40 births over the course of her internship, performed eight deliveries independently, and worked as the nurse in three cesarean sections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_195\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2014\/08-smith-interns-as-midwife-in-Africa.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-image-195 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/smith-hannah-250-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Smith '14 cradling a newborn\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/smith-hannah-250-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/smith-hannah-250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Smith &#8217;14 cradling a newborn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat I liked most about my internship placement were the experiences that I would not likely see in the United States,\u201d said Smith.\u00a0\u201cBeing immersed in a culture where fetal heart tones are taken only every four to six hours on a woman in labor and documentation is done on a scrap of paper helped me grow to appreciate the charting and standards that we have in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2014\/08-smith-interns-as-midwife-in-Africa.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the healthcare internship community Work the World, nursing alumna Hannah Smith\u00a0spent three weeks this summer as a midwifery intern at Mount Meru Regional Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. She witnessed\u00a0over 40 births over the course of her internship, performed eight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/2014\/08\/31\/hannah-smith-14-works-as-midwifery-intern-in-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplishments","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2014classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}