{"title":"Dealing with diversity: Incorporating cultural sensitivity into professional midwifery practice","authors":"Moira Williamson RM, FACM (Lecturer) , RN, PhD Lindsey Harrison (Senior Lecturer)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80009-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80009-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the Australian College of Midwives, Code of Ethics, Section 11. Practice of Midwifery, the following is stated “A. Midwives provide care for women and childbearing families with respect for cultural diversity while also working to eliminate harmful practices within those same cultures.”</p><p>However, it is difficult to know what is meant by “respect for cultural diversity”. This paper presents the results of a critical review of the health literature. There is surprisingly little consensus about the meaning of terms such as cultural sensitivity and cultural appropriate care. Nor are there reflections on incorporating these concepts into practice. It could be argued that until there is greater clarity about these concepts and more discussion of how they may be used in practice, midwives would have to continue to rely on their individual knowledge and experience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 22-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80009-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74023246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Patricia Hannigan RM","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80008-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80008-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Page 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80008-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109340357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sally K Tracy RGON (NZ), CM, Adv Dip N (NZ), BN (NZ), MA (UK) (Senior Research Midwife, Doctoral Candidate) , Pat Brodie RN, RM, BaHSc, MN (Senior Research Midwife, Doctoral Candidate) , Nicky Leap RM, MSc (UK) (Associate Investigator, Doctoral Candidate)
{"title":"AMAP—the end of a beginning","authors":"Sally K Tracy RGON (NZ), CM, Adv Dip N (NZ), BN (NZ), MA (UK) (Senior Research Midwife, Doctoral Candidate) , Pat Brodie RN, RM, BaHSc, MN (Senior Research Midwife, Doctoral Candidate) , Nicky Leap RM, MSc (UK) (Associate Investigator, Doctoral Candidate)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80001-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80001-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80001-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86429104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heather L James RN, RM, MN, FACM (Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery) , Eileen Willis BEd, MEd (Senior Lecturer in Nursing)
{"title":"The professionalisation of midwifery through education or politics?","authors":"Heather L James RN, RM, MN, FACM (Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery) , Eileen Willis BEd, MEd (Senior Lecturer in Nursing)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80010-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80010-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The midwifery profession is redefining itself, with a national initiative to separate from nursing using several strategies at political, legal, educational and porofessional levels. These include lobbying for a Midwives' Act, a national approach to co-ordinate the education of student midwives, the introduction by the ACMI of competency based practice, the initiation of various models of practice and a three-year Bachelo9r of Midwifery.</p><p>This paper argues that the educational strategy employed by midwifery is similar to that used by nursing. This strategy was overtaken by political and economic reforms within the health care sector. We argue that achieving professional dominance is not achieved simply through education but is fundamentally a political process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80010-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83363149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jane Svensson (Health Education Coordinator/Doctoral Candidate)
{"title":"Antenatal education classes in victoria: What the women said","authors":"Jane Svensson (Health Education Coordinator/Doctoral Candidate)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80006-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80006-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Page 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80006-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82820617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Videos skills for childbirth educators","authors":"Dr Kathleen Fahy","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80011-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80011-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Page 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80011-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99622469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What mothers want: A postnatal survey","authors":"Elizabeth Emmanuel RN, RM, MN (Clinical Midwifery Educator) , Debra Creedy RN, PhD. (Professor) , Jennifer Fraser RN, RM., PhD. (Research Fellow)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80007-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80007-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mothers in the public health care system undergo mandatory early discharge after childbirth. The challenges associated with the decreasing length of hospital stay have rarely been investigated from a service consumer perspective. The aim of this study was to identify mothers' needs in the immediate postpartum period. An inpatient survey of 500 postnatal mothers undertaking the Early Discharge Program. Survey questions aimed to elicit the needs of mothers in the immediate postnatal period; perceived barriers to optimal care; and suggestions as to how these barriers could be addressed. Forms were distributed to all women on admission to a postnatal ward over a two month period and completed prior to discharge. Of 500 eligible mothers, 151 (30.2%) responded to the anonymous open ended survey. A thematic analysis of comments revealed that women wanted specific information about mothering, the creation of a restful environment, adequate pain relief, practical assistance, education, and set visiting times. For new mothers, early discharge made the need for rest and information a high priority. Constraints within the public health care system and midwifery practice need to be examined to better serve mother's needs. Midwifery practice within the context of early postpartum discharge should seek to better serve new mothers by giving high priority for rest and information requirements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 16-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80007-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89559009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's comments","authors":"Pauline Glover","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80002-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80002-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Page 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80002-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137160738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The midwife's role: Challenges and changes in the post-medical movement towards woman-centred midwifery care","authors":"Liz Newnham BN. (Midwifery Student)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80005-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80005-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current movement towards woman-centred midwifery care is creating many changes for practicing midwives. In order to address these changes, midwives, particularly those working in the hospital system, need to be clear about their role in the care of childbearing women, and how they can be part of the solution in changing the fractured maternity care currently operating under the medical system. This article examines some of the issues arising for midwives, such as autonomous practice, use of obstetric language, and education for the new generation of midwives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 12-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80005-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89583595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RN CM BHSc MNH Virginia Skinner (Childbirth Educator)
{"title":"","authors":"RN CM BHSc MNH Virginia Skinner (Childbirth Educator)","doi":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80018-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80018-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83630,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated","volume":"14 3","pages":"Page 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1445-4386(01)80018-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56572552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}