Workforce to profession : an exploration of New Zealand Midwifery's professionalising strategies from 1986 to 2005

Pairman, S

Workforce to profession : an exploration of New Zealand Midwifery's professionalising strategies from 1986 to 2005

Pairman, S

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dc.contributor.author	Pairman, S
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-21T00:43:24Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-21T00:43:24Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37529
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Over the last twenty years New Zealand midwives have worked to reclaim their professional autonomy and scope of practice in order to promote a women-centred and midwife-led maternity service. In order to achieve these aims New Zealand midwifery engaged in several key professionalising strategies that have proved successful in developing midwifery as a recognised profession with a social mandate to provide autonomous midwifery care to women throughout pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period. These strategies were integrated but can be defined separately as: partnership relationships with women; leadership through the professional organisation; education for midwifery autonomy, and self-regulation within midwifery professional frameworks. Through an exploration of key midwifery professionalising strategies this doctorate identifies the unique characteristics and development of midwifery in New Zealand and critically reflects on the success and ongoing challenges of its integrated professionalising strategies.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (D Mid)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/37529/9/02Whole.pdf
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	New Zealand midwifery.	en
dc.subject	Key professionalising strategies.	en
dc.subject	Autonomous midwifery care.	en
dc.subject	Success and ongoing challenges.	en
dc.title	Workforce to profession : an exploration of New Zealand Midwifery's professionalising strategies from 1986 to 2005	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Over the last twenty years New Zealand midwives have worked to reclaim their professional autonomy and scope of practice in order to promote a women-centred and midwife-led maternity service. In order to achieve these aims New Zealand midwifery engaged in several key professionalising strategies that have proved successful in developing midwifery as a recognised profession with a social mandate to provide autonomous midwifery care to women throughout pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period. These strategies were integrated but can be defined separately as: partnership relationships with women; leadership through the professional organisation; education for midwifery autonomy, and self-regulation within midwifery professional frameworks. Through an exploration of key midwifery professionalising strategies this doctorate identifies the unique characteristics and development of midwifery in New Zealand and critically reflects on the success and ongoing challenges of its integrated professionalising strategies.

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