Midwifery and research. Comparable skills in listening and the use of language.
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Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Biomedical subjects
R Deery
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Moving from hierarchy to collaboration. The birth of an action research project.
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Cooperative Behavior↗
Integration into higher education: personal perceptions and reflections.
Integration of midwifery and nurse education into higher education was completed in 1996. This article highlights issues which emerged prior to, during and post-integration. It focuses on the process itself, student support, status, titles and employment contracts of lecturers and examines these issues in relation to one model of change. The personal perceptions and reflections of the authors are based on their own experiences of integration in two institutions. The authors conclude that although lecturers are still "juggling" with their roles as lecturers in higher education, change should be embraced and viewed positively, and all opportunities for research, collaboration and professional development should be grasped.
Education, Nursing↗
Too much like school: social class, age, marital status and attendance/non-attendance at antenatal classes.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate patterns of attendance and non-attendance at National Health Service antenatal classes of first-time mothers in the indigenous white population of a large northern city of the UK. DESIGN: Survey using questionnaires, and selected participants were then given an in-depth interview. SETTING: Five maternity wards in two large northern hospitals in the UK. In-depth interviews took place in the respondents' homes. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty newly delivered women were surveyed of whom 18 took part in the follow-up interviews. FINDINGS: There was a clear hierarchy in attendance and non-attendance based on social class, with middle class women being the most regular attenders, closely followed by older, married, working class women. However, overall social class differences were found to be accounted for by the overwhelming non attendance of young, unmarried, working class women. Older, married, working class women were found to have attendance patterns which were close to their middle class counterparts, and what differences there were seemed to be based on material factors. KEY CONCLUSIONS: The majority of women felt that antenatal classes were too technical and did not address emotional and psychological issues. However, young, single unmarried women perceived the classes most negatively. If midwives are to attract such young women, their fears and their need for peer support will have to be recognised.
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