andrea altomaro

Heartbreak and Hope

by Andrea Altomaro | May 14, 2025

In healthcare today, we talk a lot about checking our implicit biases and realizing our own microaggressions, but how do we react when it’s the patient treating the nurse or midwife poorly?

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Navigating Hostility: A New Normal in Healthcare

by Andrea Altomaro | May 06, 2025

In healthcare today, we talk a lot about checking our implicit biases and realizing our own microaggressions, but how do we react when it’s the patient treating the nurse or midwife poorly?

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Keep Reaching Out Your Hand

by Andrea Altomaro | April 29, 2025

This episode highlights the vulnerability of pregnant women, and that healthcare providers need to be diligent about screening for abuse and intimate partner violence.

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Killing Them with Kindness

by Andrea Altomaro | April 15, 2025

Anyone who works in healthcare will understand the complex dynamics that come with caring for a patient who is crabby, frustrated, and possibly quite unkind. Viewers get a glimpse in this episode.

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Providing Compassionate Care Through Crisis

by Andrea Altomaro | April 08, 2025

Medical dramas on television have always been popular, but rarely do medical professionals think they get it right. Call the Midwife always seems to find a way to master this....

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All You Need Is Love?

by Andrea Altomaro | April 01, 2025

Season 14 of Call the Midwife brings us to 1970! I was thrilled to see the nurses and midwives convene and celebrate the joy and pride in achieving much-deserved pay raises.

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Secrets, New Beginnings, and Motherhood: Reflecting on Season 13

by Andrea Altomaro | May 07, 2024

The season finale wonderfully tied up many storylines while shining light on the joy and the hardships of midwifery and the importance of having friends and colleagues for support.

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Advocacy and Mandatory Reporting

by Andrea Altomaro | April 30, 2024

Midwives, like all medical professionals, are “mandated reporters," meaning if we suspect child abuse or neglect present, we are required to report it to the appropriate authorities.

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Nurturing Compassion and Boundaries

by Andrea Altomaro | April 23, 2024

Mothers will often try and do everything to best protect their children, even if it means making decisions that are difficult to understand. As midwives, we face similar dilemmas.

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