Hi,Gill
Thank you for your reply. Your point is very valuable.
I would just want to explain that the hospital management wants to establish
such an assessment questionnaire, so that the midwives-clinical educators
(and nobody else) could foresee what are the learning potentials and
possible difficulties of the newly employed midwife and to fasilitate with
more ease her adaptation to the specific clinical enviroment and
protocols.My role is to help the already allocated clinical educator to
find, critically appraise and choose the most appropriate tool. What I want
to clarify is that the aim of these tools won't be to 'test midwives', but
to help the new colleague. I realize, however, that you have a point about
the possibility of a misuse of the information that someone (especially the
administration or the managers) could use something like that for their one
perposes. So, I think that it is essential that the safety and
confidentiality of each person will be ensured. There have been already
discussions about that issues.
However, I know that relevant tools exist for the education in general, but
I don't know if there are similar for midwives or nurses (or medical
personel).
Thanks again for your valuable comments.
With regards
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: re psychological assessment of midwives
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:16:13 EDT
>
>Hello Zenia - what an interesting query. I'm afraid I don't know of
>relevant
>sources - (I am a midwife, teacher and anthopologist rather than
>psychology
>specialist). However an issue you perhaps need to consider is the ethical
>situation. Testing midwives seems fraught with danger, and possibilities
>for
>misuse. Any testing tool would certainly need to have been thoroughly
>tried and
>trusted through reliable and valid research.
>
>I have sent this reply to you personally - but I'm very happy if you want
>to
>throw it open for others to respond to.
>
>My very best wishes anyway!
>
>Gillian Barber
>
>
>
>Gillian Barber
>RGN RM PGCEA MA PhD
>Midwife, nurse, teacher and anthropologist
>Specialist in maternal and reproductive health in developing countries
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