Maria Openshaw, RN, MS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

I am a Certified Nurse-Midwife who has practiced midwifery in the U.S. and Malawi in a variety of birth settings. I am the Midwifery Advisor for the UCSF Global Action in Nursing, a global nursing workforce project with sites in Malawi, Liberia and Sierra Leone. I am the former Director of Midwifery for this project, which is now led by expert in-country midwives. I am also an Assistant Clinical Professor (without salary) at UCSF School of Nursing.

Awards

Show all (1) Hide

• The Jeanne Rous Award, UCSF, 2014

Education & Training

Show all (2) Hide

• M.S. Midwifery and Women's Health University of California, San Francisco 09/2014
• A.B. Latin American Studies; Spanish Bowdoin College 05/2008

Interests

Show all (5) Hide

• Health & Birth Equity
• Global Nursing Workforce Development
• Midwifery Education
• Quality of Care
• Reproductive Health

Websites

Show all (1) Hide

• Global Action in Nursing (gainproject.ucsf.edu)

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Depressive DisorderHealth FacilitiesMalawiMentorsSocioeconomic FactorsDisastersDepressionAge of OnsetMexicoUrban PopulationMidwiferyBereavementTrauma and Stressor Related DisordersBankruptcyViolence

• Assessing Combined Longitudinal Mentorship and Skills Training on Select Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Rural and Urban Health Facilities in Malawi.
  Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society 2022 Blair AH, Openshaw M, Mphande I, Jana O, Malirakwenda R, Muller A, Rankin S, Baltzell K
• Medicalização do parto: Saberes e práticas. Eds: A. Pereira Rodrigues, F. Loureiro Silva, L.A. Teixeira, M. Fisher Nucci
  Capítulo 8: Onde “longe demais para andar” encontra com “muito, cedo de- mais”: vida de mães à beira da transição obstétrica 2021 Maria Openshaw
• Underreporting of maternal and neonatal complications: A comparison of information in maternity registers and client charts at a rural community hospital in Malawi
  International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences 2021 Kapito E, Chirwa E, Maluwa A, Kachimanga C, Openshaw M, Rankin S, Rose S, Muller A, Baltzell K
• International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  The impact of longitudinal nurse-midwife mentorship on reducing maternal and neonatal complications in rural Malawi: the Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) Project 2020 Openshaw M, Kapito E, McMahon C, Kachimanga C, Rose S, Wroe E, Blair A, Baltzell K, Mhango M
• A Pilot Study of Palliative Care Provider Self-competence and Priorities for Education in Kenya.
  Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association 2015 Sedillo R, Openshaw MM, Cataldo J, Donesky D, Boit JM, Tarus A, Thompson LM
• Childhood trauma is associated with depressive symptoms in Mexico City women.
  Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health 2015 Openshaw M, Thompson LM, de Pheils PB, Mendoza-Flores ME, Humphreys J