Developing and validating scenarios to compare midwives' knowledge and skills with the International Confederation of Midwives' essential competencies in four European countries

Midwifery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 854-860

  Fleming, Valerie ^a   Pehlke Milde Hebamme, Jessica ^b   Davies, Sheila ^c   Zaksek, Teja ^d  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Competence; Europe; Midwives; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING ORGANIZATION; NURSING PRACTICE; SLOVENIA; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JOB DESCRIPTION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; SCOTLAND; SLOVENIA; SOCIETIES, NURSING; YOUNG ADULT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 81255134229     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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