Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 31 Jul 1999 09:56:09 +0100602_us-ascii I completely agree with the comments below from AIMS about shortages of midwives. When I did research into Burnout in a national sample of Midwives in the UK, the most important predictors of burnout were long working hours and low job control. Midwives who worked in hospital teams had the highest levels of burnout, partly because this was the group that the lowest levels of job control. This is related to retention because 50% of midwives who had high levels of burnout said that they did not intend to be working in midwifery in 5 years time compared to 29% [...]45_31Jul199909:56:[log in to unmask] |