"In teaching nurses and midwives in the developing world to care for their patients, a core tenet is that respectful care is quality care," Catherine Carr, senior maternal health advisor for the Jhpiego/MCHIP-Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, writes in this post in Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog. "Around the globe, health-care workers are being trained in respectful, humanized care, because all patients, regardless of economic status or geographic location, deserve to be treated with reverence and consideration," she continues, adding, "Unfortunately, there is still a huge gap between the maternal care a pregnant woman should receive and what she actually experiences."