Carolyn, sorry don't have a tool but sounds like you & your team have done a
great job.
Clare Kedves,
Infant Feeding Co-ordinator, London
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From: "Carolyn Hastie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Clare Kedves" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:38 AM
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
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