PURPOSE Realizing aspirations for meeting the global reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health goals depends not only on increasing the numbers but also on improving the capability of midwifery workforce. We conducted a task analysis study to identify the needs for strengthening the midwifery workforce in Ethiopia. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of recently qualified mid...

This paper outlines curriculum considerations for the ordering, enactment and experiencing of practice-based experiences (e.g. practicums) in tertiary education programs developing occupational specific capacities. Increasingly, these programs are engaging students in practicum experiences (i.e. those in the circumstances of practice). These practice-based experiences require considerable inves...

background and purpose: special attention has been paid to instructor and preceptor in nursing and midwifery education. this study aims to explore the experiences and perceptions of midwifery students about implementing preceptorship program in delivery setting. methods: the current study is a qualitative research. the focus groups and in-depth interviews were used as data collection tools. tar...

INTRODUCTION The follow-through experience in Australian midwifery education is a strategy that requires midwifery students to 'follow' a number of women through pregnancy, labour and birth and into the parenting period. BACKGROUND The experience was introduced by the Australian College of Midwives as part of national standards for the three-year Bachelor of Midwifery programs. Anecdotally, t...

OBJECTIVE To compare midwifery and medical care practices and measure optimal perinatal outcomes using a new clinimetric instrument. DESIGN Prospective descriptive cohort design. SETTING A large, inner city obstetric service with medical and midwifery services. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred seventy-five of 400 consecutively enrolled patients were participated (25 excluded due to extreme risk...

Since its inception in 1986, the Comprehensive Nursing Diploma has received many criticisms from registered nurses, who graduated from the pre-existing programmes. This study attempts to examine the perceptions of graduates from this training programme, towards their midwifery education in terms of its adequacy in preparing them for midwifery practice. Twenty-nine graduates of the four year Com...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights have been identified as the core areas of practice, theory and research for the midwifery profession. The midwifery profession, as defined by the International Confederation of Midwives Global Standards, is new in Bangladesh. This paper aims to give an overview of the historical process that has taken place in the past decades to develop the midwifery p...