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> In a message dated 09/13/1999 8:33:53 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << My question to you and
> others is that, is it crucial that midwives break
> association with
> nursing and why? >>
>
> Dear Helen,
> Birthinghand asked some thought provoking questions.
> For my own personal philosophy, you have distilled
> the questions to their
> very essence.
>
> Midwifery is believed to have been an independent
> profession long before
> nurses/physicians came around. As an independent
> profession, the midwife
> answers to her client and the clients personal
> situation allowing the midwife
> to act in accordance with the midwifery model of
> care. The therapuetic
> alliance, cornerstone of the midwifery model of
> care, is a conscious and
> caring relationship designed to facilitate the
> highest level of self care
> possible. (To me the therapeutic alliance is the
> midwifery model of care in a
> single phrase!)
>
> The co-mingling of nursing and midwifery produces a
> risk of divided
> loyalties. The midwifery model and the medical
> model CAN coexist and provide
> for different client needs as appropriate.
>
> Can they do so in the same health care provider as
> the systems of health care
> currently exist? When nursing and midwifery combine,
> the nursing model of
> caring for the ill under the direction of physicians
> and midwives
> independently caring for well women who happen to be
> pregnant (or not).....to
> whom does the nurse midwife answer.........her
> physician or her client?
>
> with an open heart and hope,
> midge jolly
> home based midwife in the florida keys
> just marking time while we wait for the next
> hurricane floyd advisory.
>
Dear Midge,
Thank you for your insightful answer.
Helen
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--- Helena Lugina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a message dated 09/13/1999 8:33:53 AM Eastern
> > Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << My question to you and
> > others is that, is it crucial that midwives break
> > association with
> > nursing and why? >>
> >
> > Dear Helen,
> > Birthinghand asked some thought provoking
> questions.
> > For my own personal philosophy, you have distilled
> > the questions to their
> > very essence.
> >
> > Midwifery is believed to have been an independent
> > profession long before
> > nurses/physicians came around. As an independent
> > profession, the midwife
> > answers to her client and the clients personal
> > situation allowing the midwife
> > to act in accordance with the midwifery model of
> > care. The therapuetic
> > alliance, cornerstone of the midwifery model of
> > care, is a conscious and
> > caring relationship designed to facilitate the
> > highest level of self care
> > possible. (To me the therapeutic alliance is the
> > midwifery model of care in a
> > single phrase!)
> >
> > The co-mingling of nursing and midwifery produces
> a
> > risk of divided
> > loyalties. The midwifery model and the medical
> > model CAN coexist and provide
> > for different client needs as appropriate.
> >
> > Can they do so in the same health care provider as
> > the systems of health care
> > currently exist? When nursing and midwifery
> combine,
> > the nursing model of
> > caring for the ill under the direction of
> physicians
> > and midwives
> > independently caring for well women who happen to
> be
> > pregnant (or not).....to
> > whom does the nurse midwife answer.........her
> > physician or her client?
> >
> > with an open heart and hope,
> > midge jolly
> > home based midwife in the florida keys
> > just marking time while we wait for the next
> > hurricane floyd advisory.
> >
> Dear Midge,
>
> Thank you for your insightful answer.
>
> Helen
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