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Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care
\"This is the first ethnography of American midwives and their clients and advocates. The culmination of more than a decade of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research, this project specifically interrogates the potential and pitfalls of legal and political campaigns for reproductive autonomy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Trials of Labour
Burtch examines the transformation of the role of the midwife, particularly the international resurgence of the midwifery movement over the past twenty years. He also looks at contemporary midwifery practice in Canada and the role of the state in shaping and defining that practice. Burtch deals specifically with the qualifications of midwives and the care given by them both in and out of hospital and discusses their legal status, the legacy of competition between nurses and midwives, and the impact of legal actions concerning midwifery practice. He emphasizes the pivotal role of the state in supporting midwifery and discusses the difficulties created by increasing interest in midwifery among expectant women and the social forces that inhibit the establishment of a self-governing midwifery profession.
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Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation
Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation analyses the contribution made by the UKCC to the development of the nursing profession in this country over the last 30 years.It details the key issues the council grappled with during this time and provides in-depth analyses of the complexity of these issues.There is a general consensus that the current view of nursing's regulatory body will culminate in a major shake up of the way the nursing profession is governed and in which the UKCC will be radically transformed. This publication of the history of the UKCC will mark the close of a very significant period in nursing's history and the opening of wider debates about ensuring the safety of the public through regulation of health professionals.This is an important text for all those who teach on professional and policy issues in nursing, giving them a factual background that has never been brought together before, enabling them to bring discussion of post-registration education, discipline and other professional matters more firmly into the curriculum.
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Industrial: ANMF win against employer attacks on award
In January 2020, the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), representing several private hospital associations, made an application to reduce the rate of pay for casual nurses, midwives and nursing assistants employed under the Nurses Award.
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Professional: Reducing midwives risk of work-related injury
Search for an image of a \"midwife,\" and you will see the internationally identified photo of our profession - a smiling midwife with their head turned, bent over a pregnant belly listening to a foetal heart through a pinard stethoscope.
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Securing a working future for new graduate nurses and midwives
The biggest priority for graduating nursing and midwifery students remains getting a quality job. Since 2014, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) and key industry stakeholders have been investigating the concerning underemployment of nurse and midwife graduates, the causes of which are complex and varied, to ensure all grads have a future.
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More than Mothers: Juries of Matrons and Pleas of the Belly in Medieval England
Common law was an all-male system, with one glaring exception: juries of matrons. If a convicted felon requested a reprieve from execution on the grounds of pregnancy, it was the responsibility of a group of twelve matrons to perform an inspection in order to determine if she was in fact pregnant. Matrons were in a position of great authority. Their verdicts were definitive: if they decided a woman was pregnant, then she was sent back to prison. Despite the significance of their role, little is known about medieval matrons and what qualified them to sit on a jury. Were they mothers? Honorable wives? Midwives? The goal of this paper is to argue that matrons had training in obstetrics. This was particularly important for medieval matrons because the quickening (that is ensoulment, signaled by the first fetal movements) did not become the focal point of the matrons' assessment until at least 1348. Before this, the diagnosis was much more medically challenging as matrons had to determine whether a felon had conceived. Overall, the medieval records demonstrate great confidence in medieval matrons and their obstetrical expertise.
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Tested to the limits
For nurses and midwives, every new round of collective bargaining for the next enterprise agreement involves another series of tough negotiations and, more often than not, members take some form of industrial action in support of their claims to achieve a fair and reasonable outcome.
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Undertaking research: On the role of assessing health complaints about practitioners
In 2010 Australia moved to a National Registration scheme for registered health professionals including nurses and midwives. This resulted in the establishment of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) that sets National policy and professional standards and state and territory Boards that manage notifications/ complaints about nurses, midwives and students. The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law sets out how the Boards and in NSW Councils are to be constituted and operate. The Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) supports the Boards in their regulatory operation and maintains the National Register of nurses, midwives and students of the professions. However, in NSW the NSW Nurses and Midwives Council (NSW NMC) performs the role of managing complaints/ notifications about nurses, midwives and students and the Health Practitioner Council Authority (HPCA) supports them in their regulatory function.
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