Woman-centred or women-centred care: Does it matter?

British Journal of Midwifery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-16

  Leap, Nicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350166971     PISSN: 09694900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/bjom.2009.17.1.37646     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. ACM (2004) Australian College of Midwives Philosophy Statement for Midwifery. Canberra: Australian College of Midwives. http://www.midwives.org.au/ AboutUs/ACMPositionStatements/ACMPhilosophyStatementforMidwifery/tabid/259/ Default.aspx [Accessed 16 December 2008]
2. ANMC (2006) Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council National Competency Standards for the Midwife. Canberra: ANMC
3. Bastian H (1992) Confined, managed and delivered: the language of obstetrics. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 99: 92-3
4. Brodie P, Davis G, Homer C (2008) Effective Collaboration with Medical Colleagues - Making it Happen. Chapter 6. In: Homer C, Brodie P, Leap N eds. Midwifery Continuity of Care: A Practical Guide. Elsevier, Sydney
5. Brodie P, Leap N (2008) From Ideal to Real: The interface between birth territory and the maternity service organisation. Chapter 10. In: Fahy K, Foureur M, Hastie C eds. Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship. Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier, Edinburgh
6. Byrom S, Downe S (2007) Narratives from the Blackburn West caseholding team: setting up. British Journal of Midwifery 15: 225-7
7. CAM (2002) Mission Statement of the Canadian Association of Midwives.
8. Carolan M, Hodnett E (2007) 'With woman' philosophy: examining the evidence, answering the questions. Nursing Inquiry 14: 140-52
9. Cornwell C, Donnellan-Fernandez R, Nixon A (2008) Planning and Implementing Mainstream Midwifery Group Practices in a Tertiary Setting. In: Homer C, Brodie P, Leap N ed Midwifery Continuity of Care: A Practical Guide Elsevier, Sydney
10. Denzin N (1996) Interpretive Ethnography: ethnographic practices for the 21st century. Sage. Newbury Park CA
11. Department of Health (1993) Changing Childbirth. Department of Health HMSO, London
12. Fraser D, Murphy R, Worth-Butler M (1997) An Outcome Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Pre-registration Midwifery Programmes of Education.
13. English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, London
14. Guilliland K, Pairman S (1995) The midwifery partnership: A model for practice. Department of Nursing and Midwifery Monograph Series, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
15. Hewison A (1993) The language of labour: An examination of the discourses of childbirth. Midwifery 9: 225-34
16. Homer C, Brodie P, Leap N (2008a) Midwifery Continuity of Care: A Practical Guide. Elsevier, Sydney
17. Homer C, Brodie P, Leap N (2008b) Chapter 11. Midwifery continuity of care for specific communities. In: Midwifery Continuity of Care: A Practical Guide. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, Sydney
18. Homer C, Passant L, Brodie P, Kildea S, Leap N, Pincombe J, Thorogood C (2008) The role of the midwife in Australia: views of women and midwives. Midwifery Article in press: doi:10.10l6/j.midw.2007.11.003
19. Homer C, Passant L, Kildea S, Picombe J, Thorogood C, Leap N, Brodie P (2007) The development of national competency standards for the midwife in Australia. Midwifery 23: 350-60
20. Homer C, Davis G, Brodie P et al (2001) Collaboration in maternity care: a randomised controlled trial comparing community-based continuity of care with standard hospital care. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 108: 16-22
21. Kenny P, Brodie P, Eckermann S, Hall J (1994) Westmead Hospital Team Midwifery Project Evaluation: Final Report. Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW
22. Leap N (1992) The Power of Words and the Confinement of Women: how language affects midwives' practice. Nursing Times 88: 60-1
23. Leap N (2000) 'The Less We Do, the More We Give'. In: Kirkham M ed. The midwife/mother relationship. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke
24. Leap N (2005) Rhetoric and Reality: Narrowing the Gap in Australian Midwifery: DMid thesis. University of Technology, Sydney http://hdl.handle.net/ 2100/265 [Accessed 8 December 2008]
25. Leap N, Edwards N (2006) The politics of involving women in decision making. Chapter 5. In: Page LA, Campbell R eds. The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice 2nd edn. Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, London
26. Leap N, Edwards N (2007) Involving Women in Decisions about their Care. Chapter 5. In: Page L, McCandlish R eds. The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice. 2nd edn. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, London
27. Lobo A (2002) Direct entry midwifery: Traditional midwives' perceptions. RCM Midwives Journal 5: 60-2
28. May N, Veitch J, McIntosh J, Alexander J (1997) Preparation for practice: Evaluation of nurse and midwifery education in Scodand - 1993 programmes. Final Report, pp. Caledonian University, Glasgow
29. NZCOM (2008) New Zealand College of Midwives Philosophy and Code of Ethics. New Zealand College of Midwives, Christchurch
30. Pope R et al (1996) Identification of the changing educational needs of midwives in developing new dimensions of care in a variety of settings and the development of an educational package to meet those needs. English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, London
31. Pope R, Graham L, Patel S (2001) Woman Centred Care. Int J Nurs Stud 38: 227-38
32. RCM (2001) Woman Centred Care (Position Paper No. 4a). London:
33. Royal College of Midwives www.rcm.org.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx? alld=12775 [Accessed 16 December 2008]
34. Robertson A (1999) Watch your language. The Practising Midwife 2: 36-7
35. Rowley MJ (1998) Evaluation of Team Midwifery Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Randomised Controlled Trial, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
36. Rowley MJ, Hensley MJ, Brinsmead MW, Wlodarczyk JH (1995) Continuity of care by a midwife team versus routine care during pregnancy and birth: a randomised trial. Medical Journal of Australia 163: 289-193
37. Stewart M (2004) Pregnancy, Birth and Maternity Care: Feminist Perspectives. Books for Midwives, Edinburgh