Effective Midwifery Leadership: Knowing Your Roots and Finding Your Passion Caroline Homer (she/her) – Co-Program Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health and Professor of Midwifery, Burnet Institute Twitter @CarolineHomer Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 01 Issue 06 July 2023, Pages 08-12 https://doi.org/10.55975/WESN3331 Summary In this feature article, a third article in our leadership […]
Leadership is Innate to Midwives and Rowers!
Leadership Is Innate To Midwives And Rowers! Franka Cadee – President, International Confederation of Midwives Twitter @FrankaCadee www.internationalmidwives.org Introduction My home is in the East of the Netherlands, in a small university town called Wageningen, on The Rhine. I love that river because it is so changeable. The water level can rise and fall by […]
Flowers in our Profession
Flowers in our Profession Alice Tuson – Registered midwife, The Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia Instagram @midwife_alicet Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 01 Issue 02 November 2022, Pages 32-35 https://doi.org/10.55975/CDBS6049 Summary The protection and growth of the passion of woman-centred care is fundamental to gold-standard care. My personal clinical practice journey has […]
Leadership Collective 2. Equipping Midwifery Leaders
Leadership Collective 2. Equipping Midwifery Leaders Joy Adcock – Endorsed Midwife, Master of Primary Maternity Care, La Trobe University, Werribee Mercy Hospital Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 01 Issue 02 November 2022, Pages 20-25 https://doi.org/10.55975/WQMN9405 Summary This article explores how midwives in leadership positions can be equipped to contribute to maternity care reform […]
Finding a New Foundation for Nurturing Others at Work
Finding a New Foundation for Nurturing Others at Work Aaron Turner – Senior Partner, One Thought Twitter @DrAaronTurner Colette Grant – Founder, Optimise Your Potential Twitter @ColetteGrant12 Introduction In this short interview, Aaron Turner (AT) from One Thought interviews business leader Colette Grant (CG) on the evolution of how she nurtures others that work with […]
Leadership Collective 1. Creating a Midwifery Collaborative Through Learning, Sharing and Caring Connections
Leadership Collective 1. Creating a Midwifery Collaborative Through Learning, Sharing and Caring Connections Dr Anna Coonan-Byrom – Midwife, Educator, Researcher, CEO and Founding Director All4Maternity Twitter @ACBMidwife Published in The Practising Midwife Australia Volume 01 Issue 01 September 2022, Pages 20-25 https://doi.org/10.55975/DWGO4776 Summary Welcome to the first Advancing Practice article for The Practising Midwife Australia […]
Advocacy: Let’s Get Political
Advocacy: Let’s Get Political Krystyna Nowobilska-Dean – Registered midwife, Private Midwives Instagram @kryssiki Nicole Rajan-Brown – Student midwife, University of Salford Instagram @nicrajan_brown Published in The Student Midwife Volume 5 Issue 3 July 2022, Page 22 https://doi.org/10.55975/BNWW8549 Etymologically speaking A definition of the role of the midwife would be lost without advocacy, a core action […]
Sparking Change
Sparking Change Olivia Nicell – Labour Ward Coordinator, Midwife, Greater Manchester Published in The Student Midwife Volume 5 Issue 02 April 2022, Pages 22 Summary Olivia Nicell reflects on her learning journey towards becoming an inclusive and sensitive team leader. My experience During midwifery training, I became acutely aware of the prejudice and injustice sometimes […]
Finding Your Community
Finding Your Community Zelle Baggaley [she/her] – Doula, Community Lead, Birth Trauma Association Instagram: @zellethedoula Published in The Student Midwife Volume 5 Issue 1 Jan 2022 Summary Leadership is not synonymous with isolation; the support of peers, colleagues and clients can help raise voices higher. In this second instalment of the leadership in action series, […]
Addressing Personal Bias In Relation To Weight Bias: Part 2
Addressing Personal Bias In Relation To Weight Bias: Part 2 Nicola Salmon [she/her] – Fat-positive fertility coach Instagram: @fatpositivefertility Published in The Student Midwife Volume 5 Issue 1 Jan 2022 Summary In part two of this series, Nicola Salmon explores how to recognise bias and the practical steps healthcare practitioners can take to eradicate it […]