Taking Hold of an Opportunity to Move into Education Rebecca Baker – Midwife, and Associate Lecturer in Midwifery at University of Suffolk Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 22 Issue 3 March 2019 Following qualifying as a midwife in 2015, I worked within my local trust for three years as a rotational midwife. I enjoyed working in […]
‘I’m very stressed…’
‘I’m very stressed…’ Sheena Byrom OBE – Consultant Midwife and Director All4Maternity I am contacted regularly by student midwives and midwives who tell me they are desperate, ‘burnt -out’ and sad that they can’t give the midwifery care they want to. It’s a story frequently told; as a clinical midwife, I said the same words […]
Creating Coherence: Midwifery education philosophies, theories and practice
Creating Coherence: Midwifery education philosophies, theories and practice Dr Anna Byrom – Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at University of Central Lancashire; Director of All4Maternity @ACBmidwife Kerry Pollard – Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at University of Central Lancashire @midwifekerry Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 23 Issue 1 January 2020 In this article, the fifth of our Advancing practice midwifery education […]
Taking Hold of an Opportunity to Move into Education
Taking Hold of an Opportunity to Move into Education Rebecca Baker – Midwife, and Associate Lecturer in Midwifery at University of Suffolk Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 22 Issue 3 March 2019 Following qualifying as a midwife in 2015, I worked within my local trust for three years as a rotational midwife. I enjoyed working in […]
The Professional Midwifery Advocate and Restorative Clinical Supervision
The Professional Midwifery Advocate and Restorative Clinical Supervision Lys-Marie Williams – Professional Midwifery Advocate and Midwife at Scarborough General Hospital Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 21 Issue 11 December 2018 Summary As a band 6 integrated midwife, anecdotally I often encountered and witnessed work-based stress. Increasing pressure on midwives and little time for support could […]
Mentorship; The Struggling Student Midwife and the Importance of Continuity of Mentor
Mentorship; The Struggling Student Midwife and the Importance of Continuity of Mentor Michelle Tant – Midwife at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust and Breastfeeding Counsellor Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 21 Issue 8 September 2018 Summary The concerns experienced by midwives supporting struggling student midwives are varied and can range from a lack of […]
When all You Want to do is Run out of the Room…
When all You Want to do is Run out of the Room… Rebecca Weston – Third year Student Midwife at Bournemouth University Published in The Practising Midwife Volume 21 Issue 5 May 2018 https://doi.org/10.55975/TBYQ2985 Summary This is a reflective article which I wrote shortly after I was involved in a traumatic, sudden and heart-breaking event in […]
Supporting student midwives on the neonatal unit
by Karen Devine, midwife As a midwife on a busy neonatal unit (NNU), I am constantly aware that not only are parents and families who use the facility out of their comfort zones, but also the student midwives who come for experience can feel this way, too. I have been there! I remember the daunting […]
Student Survival Guide No 3 – Resilience
Lynsey Grice – third year student midwife at Coventry University Lynsey is a third year student midwife at Coventry University, and is reflecting here on her personal experience of emotional resilience. Reflection In order to reflect on my own experiences as a student midwife, I have used Gibbs’ Model of Reflection (1988): What happened? […]
Editorial: #inittogether – Passing It On
EDITORIAL #Inittogether – passing it on This summer I was contacted by a midwife from Birmingham and asked if I could send some well-wishes for one of my past clinical mentors as she retired from midwifery. I had worked with this mentor in my final community placement of midwifery education. Reflecting on that time, I […]