'You can drop dead': Midwives bullying women

Women and Birth

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 53-59

  Dietsch, Elaine ^a   Shackleton, Pamela ^a   Davies, Carmel ^a   McLeod, Margaret ^b   Alston, Margaret ^c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Royal College of Nursing Australia   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal women; Abuse; Bullying; Midwifery; Power

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BULLYING; CULTURAL SAFETY; EMOTION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SUPPORT GROUP; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NEW SOUTH WALES; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POSTNATAL CARE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; TRAVEL;

EID: 77951295972     PISSN: 18715192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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