Now a passionate campaigner, Goleniowska helps match learning-disability nurses with midwives to get the best information to parents at the point of diagnosis.
This highlights the importance of encouraging midwives to get tested, since this study also revealed that midwives screened were more likely to propose screening to their patients.
Why should we refuse a woman's request in this case?" Using the cloths also helped the midwives to get an idea of the perineum and its elasticity.
So, regardless of the level of satisfaction even if they are very satisfied with their current job primary care midwives between 30 and 45 years old are more inclined to consider seeking other employment than midwives in other age groups.> Seven midwives actually tried to get another job (outside primary care, but within the midwifery profession) as a clinical midwife, researcher or lecturer.
However, now that EU law is making professional indemnity insurance compulsory for healthcare professionals, independent midwives will have to get indemnity cover to continue practising.
As one manager put it: 'Cadres like nursing officers or midwives, even pharmacists, to get them is difficult and to retain them is also hard, if she goes for studies then often she does not come back'.
Some of the ward midwives expected caseload midwives to take complete responsibility for women in their caseload: If they [the pregnant women in caseload groups] are going to get to know that midwife, then they must see her, also for the trivial problems.
What about royalty makes the rest of us so eager to play the scuttling midwife, just grateful to get a look at the heir?
They learned details of her life including the fact that she was one of the first midwives in the country to get around on a motorcycle.
Doctors fail to discipline staff who are found to be at fault, they fail to get midwives posted to outlying areas or to carry out checks on the quality of care, and are even more remiss in monitoring the application of the innumerable micro-reforms.
In a study in Timor Leste, a facility manager remarked that midwives were more likely to get angry at women who were primiparous and didn't have 'experience' with childbirth, as the women might not be able to push when directed [ 54].
