Global Midwifery: Principles, Policy and Practice

Kemp, Joy; Maclean, Gaynor D.; Moyo, Nester

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46765-4

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“…These well-being challenges stem from issues relating to gender, historical tensions with the medicalization of childbirth, and western cultural hegemony in midwifery practice. First, midwifery is a highly feminized profession across the globe (Kemp et al 2021). In the UK, 89% of midwifery professionals identify as women (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2021).…”

Section: Well-being In the Midwifery Profession: Toward A Contextuali...mentioning

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“…The professionalization of midwifery has ushered in standardized approaches to education, regulation, and models of practice. Regulation is meant to ensure that practice standards are maintained and both birthing families and midwives are protected (Kemp et al 2021). However, westernized forms of regulation and standardization are not inclusive and disregard accumulated knowledge from Indigenous midwifery practices.…”

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“…Recently, there has been a rapid increase in educational support for midwives, which can be attributed to a commensurate increase in the political will to advance health outcomes for mothers and children (World Health Organization 2021). However, even in regions that have made strong investments in the midwifery profession through universal health care, workforce sustainability is precarious (Garcia de Frutos 2020), professional recognition is low (Mharapara et al 2022), and organizational structures are fragmented and lacking in cohesion (Kemp et al 2021).…”

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Toward a contextualized understanding of well-being in the midwifery profession: An integrative review

Mharapara

Clemons

Greenslade-Yeats

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Journal of Professions and Organization

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Our integrative review synthesizes and evaluates two decades of empirical research on well-being in the midwifery profession to reveal (1) how researchers have studied midwives’ well-being; (2) key findings of research on midwives’ well-being; (3) underlying assumptions of this research; and (4) limitations of this research. We find that research on midwives’ well-being is disproportionately focused on individual midwives, who are assumed to be largely responsible for their own well-being, and that well-being in the midwifery profession is generally equated with the absence of mental health problems such as burnout, anxiety, and stress. Researchers have largely taken a narrow and instrumental approach to study midwives’ well-being, focusing on work-related antecedents and consequences, and overlooking the influence of nonwork factors embedded in the broader socioeconomic and cultural environment. Drawing on more comprehensive and contextualized well-being frameworks, we propose a research model that (1) expands the well-being construct as it applies to midwives and (2) situates midwives’ well-being in broader social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. Although developed in the midwifery context, our proposed research model can be applied to a host of professions.

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Section: Well-being In the Midwifery Profession: Toward A Contextuali...mentioning

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Toward a contextualized understanding of well-being in the midwifery profession: An integrative review

Mharapara

Clemons

Greenslade-Yeats

et al. 2022

Journal of Professions and Organization

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“…Jing, (2020), indicates that the quali cation categories, years of experience as a midwife, and access to in-service education were the in uencers of midwives' con dence. The integration of knowledge with skills and behaviour and building con dence are a continuous learning process of the midwife in the profession and should be developed over time through professional development programmes, clinical teaching and supervision by clinical midwifery experts (38,41,42).…”

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Exploring midwifery competence and confidence based on midwives' experiences and stakeholders' insights in Kenya: A descriptive phenomenological approach

Tallam

Kaura

Mash

2022

Preprint

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Background Midwives who are educated and regulated to international standards can provide ninety percent of the needed essential care for women and newborns and reduce preventable maternal and child mortalities. However, inadequacies in midwifery care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, leads to lack of competence and confidence among midwives to achieve their potential. The study objective was to explore midwives’ experiences and stakeholder insights into midwives’ competence and confidence in the four International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) domains; general competence, pre-pregnancy and antenatal care, labour and childbirth, and ongoing care of the woman and the baby. Methods A descriptive phenomenological study was utilised to explore these experiences. Ten midwives were purposively selected from subcounty, county and tertiary referral hospitals. Further, stakeholders (nine County Chief Nursing Officers and one Chief Executive Officer from the tertiary hospital in Kenya) were included. Interview guide questions were developed following the findings of the midwives’ self-perceived competence and confidence. All interviews were recorded, translated, and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was done using the Colaizzi framework. Atlas. ti 9 software was utilised to assist with the coding categorisation and creating the themes. Findings Four themes emerged from the analysis. They included qualification categories, clinical practice experience, clinical practice environment and the need to optimise midwifery. In addition, multidisciplinary support and standardisation of midwifery practice were identified as key to promote the confidence and competence of midwives. Conclusions Midwives had disparities in competence and confidence during clinical practice, based on their different qualifications. A supportive environment emerged as necessary in enabling appropriate clinical experience, confidence, and competence. Standardisation of midwifery qualification promotes competence, which promotes the confidence of midwives in the clinical environment.

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“…Building foundations with Florence Nightingale in the 1800s and evolving from within the medical community in the 1970s, research and evidence have been used to inform and enhance clinical practice throughout history. The integration of both research and evidence is now considered critical in both undergraduate and graduate midwifery (Kemp et al 2021), and nursing education (Mackey and Bassendowski. 2017).…”

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Defining ‘research inspired teaching’ and introducing a research inspired online/offline teaching (riot) framework for fostering it using a co-creation approach

Pezaro

Jenkins

Bollard

2022

Nurse Education Today

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Global Midwifery: Principles, Policy and Practice

Cited by 8 publications

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Toward a contextualized understanding of well-being in the midwifery profession: An integrative review

Toward a contextualized understanding of well-being in the midwifery profession: An integrative review

Exploring midwifery competence and confidence based on midwives' experiences and stakeholders' insights in Kenya: A descriptive phenomenological approach

Defining ‘research inspired teaching’ and introducing a research inspired online/offline teaching (riot) framework for fostering it using a co-creation approach

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