“A powerful midwifery vision”: Dutch student midwives’ educational needs as advocates of physiological childbirth

Thompson, Suzanne; Nieuwenhuijze, Marianne; Low, Lisa Kane; Vries, Raymond De

doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2018.12.010

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“…One such study explored midwives’ attitudes toward promoting physiologic birth and identified factors that facilitate or inhibit midwives in this role . Another looked at what student midwives need from midwifery education to advocate for physiologic birth . Using the findings from these studies (Table ), ideas were generated for inclusion in an initial prototype.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The data from all group and individual interviews (the field notes and recordings) were analyzed using deductive content analysis . The choice for a deductive approach was made, as it seemed an appropriate choice to incorporate earlier published findings and to further develop those findings into an initial prototype. Input from each session was organized into a content framework, offering an overview of suggested educational content and didactic form.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It was not an aim of this process to seek data saturation, as in traditional qualitative methodologies. The group and individual interviews were aimed at confirming the findings of earlier studies that were used to inform the prototype development. Ensuring relevant stakeholder involvement in the generation of ideas for an educational initiative, its content, and its pedagogy was considered essential.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Correspondingly, in health care settings, midwives are challenged by gender inequality and unequal power relations with other professionals, diminishing their power and influence . Dutch midwives and student midwives view guardianship of physiologic birth as central to their role . However, like midwives elsewhere, they also describe being influenced by health care hierarchy and experiencing feelings of powerlessness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dutch midwifery curricula provide a sound theoretical basis in the physiologic approach to birth and give student midwives opportunities to participate in physiologic births. However, some studies from the Netherlands suggest that a perceived lack of agency may be the root cause of some of the challenges that Dutch midwives and student midwives face, inhibiting their ability to advocate for physiologic birth.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Creating Guardians of Physiologic Birth: The Development of an Educational Initiative for Student Midwives in the Netherlands

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Women want positive birth experiences with high quality maternity care that is neither too much, too soon, nor too little, too late. Research confirms the effectiveness of midwifery care, and the midwifery approach to birth as physiologic may counter the upward trend of the unnecessary medicalization of birth. The role of guardian of physiologic birth is seen as central to midwifery practice; however, medical hegemony has led to the subordination of midwives, which inhibits them in fulfilling the role as guardian of physiologic birth. Learning to become powerful advocates of physiologic birth creates midwives able to speak up for effective, evidence-based maternity care and challenge the unnecessary use of obstetric intervention. Midwifery education has a role to fulfil in molding midwives who are able to assume this role. This brief report describes the development of an educational prototype aimed at increasing student midwife agency as an advocate of physiologic birth. This was done using rapid prototyping (RP) methodology, in which important stakeholders gave input and feedback during the educational design and development process. Input from stakeholders led to the inclusion of persuasive communication strategies and discussion and debate as teaching methodologies in order to increase student midwife agency to argue for physiologic birth. Reflective evidence-based practice, using the Optimality Index-Netherlands, allowed students to reflect on their practice while providing a framework for discussion. Working with the RP methodology allowed for the development of a prototype that reflected the needs of midwifery stakeholders and was mindful of material and human resources.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Reflections On This Process: Lessons Learnedmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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Midwifery students’: Developing an understanding of being ‘with woman’––A qualitative study

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Objectives: To explore and describe what student midwives, enrolled in one Western Australian (WA) university, had witnessed, learned and experienced regarding the concept of being 'with woman'. Design: A qualitative descriptive design was chosen.Setting: A university in Perth, Western Australia.Participants: Nineteen student midwives from an undergraduate and a post graduate midwifery course. Methods: Data were collected from audio-recorded interviews. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts was used to identify commonalities of perceptions and experiences of being 'with woman' for students. Data saturation guided when recruitment ceased and final sample size was achieved.Findings: Student interviews revealed that when considering the concept of being 'with woman' students were able to give descriptors of what they interpreted the meaning of being

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“They hold your fate in their hands”: Exploring the power dynamic in the midwifery student-preceptor relationship

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“A powerful midwifery vision”: Dutch student midwives’ educational needs as advocates of physiological childbirth

Cited by 18 publications

References 52 publications

Creating Guardians of Physiologic Birth: The Development of an Educational Initiative for Student Midwives in the Netherlands

Creating Guardians of Physiologic Birth: The Development of an Educational Initiative for Student Midwives in the Netherlands

Midwifery students’: Developing an understanding of being ‘with woman’––A qualitative study

“They hold your fate in their hands”: Exploring the power dynamic in the midwifery student-preceptor relationship

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