Original Research
Midwives’ experiences of managing women in labour in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
Submitted: 06 June 2010 | Published: 06 June 2010
About the author(s)
Sonto M. Maputle, University of Venda: Department of Advanced Nursing Sience, South AfricaD. H. Hiss, Department of Medical Biosciences, University Western Cape, South Africa
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Findings: Categories identified were lack of mutual participation and responsibility sharing, dependency and lack of decision-making, lack of information-sharing, empowering autonomy and informed choices opportunities, lack of open communication and listening, non-accommodative midwifery actions, and lack of human and material infrastructure. To ensure the validity of the results, criteria to measure trustworthiness were utilized.
Conclusions: This study has implications for woman-centered care by midwives managing women in labour and provides appropriate guidelines that should be integrated into the Batho-Pele Principles.
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