nursing and midwifery projects
midwifery projects
Midwifery
Midwifery has long held a special significance as a professional group in the health and disability sector. The way midwives practice, in partnership with women and their families, coupled with legislative change and the development of the lead carer as the model for service delivery has placed midwifery in a strong position to respond to the challenges that face the sector. Most important is the need for midwifery to maintain and strengthen the service relationship with the vast majority of women who have “normal” births. The challenges also include delivering care to childbearing women with a changing population demand, growth in ethnic diversity and complexity that will increase until our current responses to these trends start to have an effect.
Midwives are a varied workforce group, which is ageing and currently experiencing a shortage. The Midwifery workforce has a skill set that allows them to make a significant contribution to childbearing women across a variety of settings and with a scope of practice that intersects with many other professional and non-professional groups. The potential for advancing women’s health outcomes is therefore enormous through the understanding and developing of this resource.