Hello Carolyn, I am very interested in looking at job satisfaction in relation to mentoring and midwives. I am currently looking at the Work and Life Attitudes Survey (Warr, P., J. Cook, and T. Wall, Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well-being. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1979. 52: p. 129-148).
I would be very interested in hearing about any tool you come across/develop that is relevant to midwifery practice.
thank you
Sarah
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Subject: Tool for researching midwives satisfaction etc
Dear Colleagues,
I have the great pleasure of managing a stand alone, midwifery led,
women centred maternity service which offers one to one care throughout
the woman's childbearing experience, up to three weeks post natal.
There was enormous negativity from some of our medical (and midwifery
and nursing) colleagues when the service was first set up a year ago.
That means the pressure and need to prove the worth of this service has
been high for the midwives and the health service.
The midwives who work here have transformed from 'med-wives', working
shifts in a fragmented model to midwives, working one to one, with all
the dimensions of that way of working, with the women over the last
year.
The midwives are happy and tell me they love their job! The woman are
happy and say so in many ways. It seems that now, after a year, it is
a wonderful time to do a questionnaire with the midwives about their
changing role and their percpeptions/satisfactions/problems etc.
Does anyone have a tool that they have used and found effective for
measuring the kinds of factors I have mentioned, plus family time, time
to self, exercise, nutrition etc aspects and others I may not have
mentioned?
I look forward to any ideas you may have.
warmly, Carolyn
Carolyn Hastie
Midwifery Manager
Belmont Birthing Services
Hunter New England Health
Conjoint Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing & Midwifery
University of Newcastle
FACMI IBCLC
Mobile 0418 428 430
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"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given
me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and
truth." Albert Einstein
Sarah Stewart
PhD Candidate
Senior Lecturer
School of Midwifery
Otago Polytechnic
Forth St
Private Bag 1910
Dunedin
New Zealand
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