Professional autonomy for midwives in the contemporary UK maternity system: part 1

Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses

Self-certification in lay midwives' organizations: a vehicle for professional autonomy.

The recent resurgence of lay midwifery in the United States has been intimately connected with the establishment of grassroots organizations which address women's health issues and make the reappearance of the lay midwife a different kind of phenomenon than was the case earlier in this century. This paper describes the organizational structure of 32 lay midwives' organizations and compares them...

Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses

This handbook has the merit of having been written from the nurse's point of view. The style is simple and direct and the difficult task of making the more scientific aspects of the subject intelligible to pupil midwives has been met by the use of illustrations from nursing experience. In this respect the book possesses a distinct advantage over several of the midwifery handbooks in current iis...

Midwives for Midwives in Guatemala: Weaving Traditional and Professional Midwifery

Continuous Professional Development for Midwives

The South African government implemented a compulsory one year community service strategy to address the shortage of human resources in the health sector since 1998. Medical practitioners (1999), dentists (2000) and pharmacists (2001) and other seven professional groups followed in 2003 and in July 2004. The nursing profession followed after the Health Minister’s announcement, the processing of...