MIDIRS have launched a new initiative on their
website. 'MIDIRS forum' is a
knowledge sharing facility which aims to
encourage and develop the dissemination
of midwifery information. The forum
has two main areas.
First, the forum can be used as a 'bulletin board.' For
example, if you are
investigating or researching a particular area and wish
to hear from anyone with
a similar interest, you can post a query or request
at the forum, along with
your contact details, so that other interested
parties may get in touch.
Alternatively, you may simply wish to contact past
colleagues, in which case,
you can post your contact details along with your
query.
The second way the forum may be used is as an evidence-based
guidelines
facility, which enables you to share any guidelines
developed within your own
place of work with your international colleagues.
So often when developing
guidelines, we could benefit from reviewing work
already done on a particular
subject at a different maternity unit. We could
avoid some of the unnecessary
duplication of 'basic groundwork' when we are
faced with the task of developing
evidence-based guidelines and concentrate
instead on adapting and assimilating
shared evidence. Why re-invent the wheel
when time is so scarce?
If you have evidence -based guidelines that you are
willing to share, then visit
the MIDIRS website at www.midirs.org and consider posting them at the
MIDIRS
forum. Alternatively, you may prefer not to publish your guidelines in
full, but
you can instead post an overview of the subjects covered, along
with contact
details for one-to-one discussion with any interested
parties.
Please make use of this facility. The more it is used, the better a
resource it
will be.
Best wishes,
Julie Frohlich,
MIDIRS
Midwifery Digest
