Promoting normal birthing: Aspiring to develop a midwife-led scope of practice

ConclusionsThe theoretical framework generates conceptual knowledge of how midwives aspire to promote healthy, safe and responsive birthing care for women in their scope of practice in a hospital setting. Findings provide greater insights into the competing perspectives of birthing care challenging midwives’ capacity to provide woman-centred care, influencing the degree to which midwives are able to exercise their scope of practice in promoting normal birth.
Source: Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare - Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: research