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The role of the registered midwife
Curationis | Vol 5, No 2 | a396 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v5i2.396
| © 1982 C.F. van Niekerk
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 September 1982 | Published: 27 September 1982
Submitted: 27 September 1982 | Published: 27 September 1982
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C.F. van Niekerk, Department of Nursing, MEDUNSA, South AfricaFull Text:
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What is specific about the role of the registered midwife, is that it is not specific.
How could it be specific when:
• every mother is unique
• every labour is unparalleled
• every baby is different
• every situation is singular?
Role descriptions differ because:
• practitioner views do not coincide
• authors disagree
• time moves on
• needs, statistics and values change.
Roles are dynamic because:
• technology demands increased intellectual and psychomotor development
• humaneness demands affective and effective co-ordination of care
• mortality and morbidity rates demand reduction
• money, status and power demand quality.
How could it be specific when:
• every mother is unique
• every labour is unparalleled
• every baby is different
• every situation is singular?
Role descriptions differ because:
• practitioner views do not coincide
• authors disagree
• time moves on
• needs, statistics and values change.
Roles are dynamic because:
• technology demands increased intellectual and psychomotor development
• humaneness demands affective and effective co-ordination of care
• mortality and morbidity rates demand reduction
• money, status and power demand quality.
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