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Titre : | Reflections of a student midwife: has our role become misunderstood and how can we fix it? (2024) |
Auteurs : | Isla Love |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Midwifery Digest (Midirs) (Vol. 34, n° 1, March 2024) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 9-12 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Descripteurs : |
HE Vinci Étudiants ; Métier ; Profession de sage-femme ; Sage-femme |
Résumé : |
As is the case for many who choose midwifery as a career, I started with the desire to be with women to provide support and care.
When I share my chosen profession with loved ones and strangers, the automatic response is 'so you deliver babies?' , encouraging the belief that our role is working in a labour ward. I have quickly become aware of the perception the public and other health care professionals have of what constitutes a midwife. These perceptions are limiting in relation to the many roles we have, including public health, specialities, research and education. I believe one of the contributing factors to this perception is how the other arms of our profession are often overlooked, even within our own field of midwifery, with some individuals unaware of the alternative career routes. From my experience, I have observed that many students are not informed of career options available in midwifery and those who are qualified don't always have a clear career framework to support their development and progression. It is important to consider how, as a profession, we may be limiting the advancement of midwifery, as some midwives may not be pursuing alternative career options such as research, higher clinical practice (specialisms, advanced practice and consultant level practice) or working in academic settings (lecturers, researchers and professors, and clinical academics), since we may not fully understand what the challenges and barriers may be. I will be using the Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle to explore my experience as a student midwife in relation to career development, and the potential barriers to and methods of facilitating improvement. [Introduction] |
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Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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Midwifery Digest Vol. 34, n° 1 (March 2024) | Périodique papier | Woluwe | Espace revues | Consultation sur place uniquement Exclu du prêt |