The politics of midwifery education and training in New South Wales during the last decades of the 19th Century

Purcal, Nita K.

doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2007.11.002

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“…Childbearing women in Australia have been attended by midwives since the convict era, when midwives were experienced women without formal training and midwifery was an unregulated profession (Fahy, 2007;Barclay, 2008;Purcal, 2008). More trained midwives became available during colonisation, when women either gave birth at home or at lying-in hospitals which were run by midwives.…”

Section: Section One: the Context Of Contemporary Australian Midwifermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The history of Australian midwifery practice and regulation highlights that midwifery practice has become progressively subsumed by nursing, increasingly supervised by obstetrics, and has been the target of professional rivalry from the medical profession (Rhodes, 1995;Callaghan, 1996;Lecky-Thompson, 1996;Reiger, 1999a;Harris, 2000;Robinson, 2002;Fahy, 2007;Barclay, 2008;Purcal, 2008;McColl, 2008;Benoit, Zadoroznyj, Hallgrimsdottir, Treloar & Taylor, 2010).…”

Section: Section One: the Context Of Contemporary Australian Midwifermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evidence suggests that the obstetric viewpoint values technology, surveillance and intervention and is informed by a belief that pregnancy and childbirth is inherently risky (Callaghan, 1996;Wilson, 2002;Jordan & Aitkins Murphy, 2009). This standpoint has dominated maternity care provision in Australia during the last four decades, and has been fuelled by both historical and political-economic factors (Fahy, 2007;Barclay, 2008;Purcal, 2008;Newnham, 2010).…”

Section: The Influence Of Medical Dominance Upon Midwifery Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Midwifery students' experiences of achieving competency for beginning practice

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Seibold

McInerney

2013

British Journal of Midwifery

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Three-year undergraduate Bachelor of Midwifery programmes were introduced into Australian universities in 2002 in response to the midwifery profession's changing political, economic and workforce needs and expectations of the midwife's role ( Glover, 1999 ; Cutts et al, 2002; Leap, 2002 ). There was an identified need to broaden the entry pathways and structure of midwifery courses to make them accessible to those who did not hold a nursing qualification or experience. Expectations of the midwife's role and scope of midwifery practice in Australia were shifting ‘from the biomedical, hospital-centric focus of pregnancy to one emphasising a “new midwifery” based on a midwife-woman partnership and evidence-based practice’ ( Seibold, 2005: 10 ) and this was reflected in the new midwifery curriculum. This paper presents findings from a grounded theory study exploring the experiences of early Australian Bachelor of Midwifery students, graduating in 2005–2008, from a university in Victoria, Australia. The study was timely, as the first graduates from these courses had entered the profession in 2004 and these students' experiences had not been explored. The findings demonstrate how these students underwent a process of ‘assimilation’ to achieve competency for beginning practice. Assimilation involved three sub-processes: ‘realisation’, ‘adaptation’ and ‘consolidation’.

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Section: Section One: the Context Of Contemporary Australian Midwifermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Section One: the Context Of Contemporary Australian Midwifermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Influence Of Medical Dominance Upon Midwifery Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Midwifery students' experiences of achieving competency for beginning practice

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Seibold

McInerney

2013

British Journal of Midwifery

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“…El cambio en el papel que cumplen las parteras a lo largo de la historia ha sufrido altibajos relacionados con la percepción que se tiene de ellas en diferentes partes del mundo y en diferentes períodos políticos o económicos. [1][2][3] La actuación de las parteras en la salud pública es tema de discusión, se cuestiona el grado en que deben incorporarse en su oficio, algunas de las nuevas intervenciones en salud pública disponibles y hasta dónde debe llegar su papel en la provisión de servicios de maternidad. 4 Para reducir la mortalidad materna se han planteado dos estrategias: la primera, respalda la atención adecuada de la emergencia obstétrica que se apoya en el papel de la comunidad y de parteras adecuadamente entrenadas, sobre todo, en sitios con escasos recursos y problemas de infraestructura.…”

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Las parteras, patrimonio de la humanidad

Alarcón-Nivia¹,

Sepúlveda-Agudelo²,

Alarcón-Amaya³

2011

Rev. Colomb. Obstet. Ginecol.

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Objetivo: presentar el origen etimológico del término partera. Describir las parteras que han hecho aportes a la obstetricia a través de la historia. Hacer una reflexión . sobre el desempeño actual de las parteras en la saludMateriales y métodos: se presentan las parteras más famosas o que hicieron aportes a la tocología o la salud pública a través de los siglos. Se describe el papel de las parteras hoy día en las diferentes regiones del mundo.Conclusión: las parteras continúan jugando un importante papel en la salud materna en varios países del mundo, dado que tienen amplia aceptación en las comunidades, reciben capacitación en buenas prácticas y pueden detectar las alteraciones tempranas del embarazo y el parto; sin embargo, en otros países este oficio se halla prácticamente en el ocaso, está reducido a zonas marginales y no cuentan con apoyo de los organismos de salud

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