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Plenary 1: Midwives and Obstetrician: moving in virtuous circles
My NHS midwifery career spanned 35 years, from a frightened shy pupil midwife in the 1970's witnessing active management of labour, separation of mothers and babies and absence of ‘choice’ for women, ...
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Sheena Byrom
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S1
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Facilitating physiological birth positioning in three different birth settings: An exploration into facilitators and inhibitors
Background: Supporting women to assume physiological birth positions (PBP) during labour and birth has physical benefits, such as a reduction in instrumental deliveries and severe pain, as well as psy...
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Hannah Dahlen,
Virginia Schmied,
Soo Downe,
Sally Tracy,
Helen Dowling,
Julie Swain,
Melanie Jackson,
Ank de Jonge,
Holly Priddis
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S1
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A randomised controlled non-inferiority trial comparing a single and four Sterile Water Injection Technique for the relief of back pain during labour
Background: Almost one third of women suffer continuous lower back pain during labour. Evidence from systematic reviews has demonstrated SWI's provide statistically and clinically significant pain rel...
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Nigel Lee,
Sue Kildea,
Peter Coxeter,
Vanessa Wright,
Michael Beckmann,
Joan Webster,
Patricia Smith
et al.
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S2
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Moxibustion for cephalic version: A feasibility study
Background: Moxibustion (a type of Chinese medicine which involves burning a herb close to the skin) to acupuncture point Bladder 67 (BL67), is proposed as a way of correcting breech presentation. A C...
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Hannah Dahlen,
Caroline Smith,
Carole Do,
Virginia Schmied,
Andrew Bisits
et al.
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S2
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Towards Normal Birth in NSW
In response to concern about the rise in Caesarean section rates, the NSW Maternal and Perinatal Health Priority Taskforce (M&P HPT) and the Department of Health hosted a state wide forum on Caesa...
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Ann Kinnear
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S2-S3
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A culture for antenatal care
Contemporary midwifery practice advocates the development of “mother-midwife relationships” as a model for pregnancy care in which women may exercise greater personal control and involvement. Focus on...
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Diane Wright,
Jan Pincombe,
Robyn Nayda
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S3
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Mindfulness Based Childbirth Education
This study developed and tested the benefits of a mindfulness- and skills-based antenatal education program for pregnant women and their birth support partners. The program was targeted at non-clinica...
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Jean Byrne,
Yvonne Hauck,
Colleen Fisher
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S3
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Core of Life – midwives educating youth in schools/communities re birth realities and beyond
Introducing an innovative program called Core Of Life [COL]. COL is a comprehensive life-education program designed for adolescents, focusing on the realities of pregnancy, birth and early parenting…r...
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Lorraine Campbell,
Melissa Hoye
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S4
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Taking hold of a tenuous future: Couples experiences of continuing pregnancy following diagnosis of a serious or lethal fetal anomaly
As a student nurse I once said to a woman in labour ‘what a beautiful day to have a baby’ the woman looked at me, sad, unsmiling and said ‘my baby is dead’. This experience was mortifying. Like all mi...
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Sally de-Vitry Smith
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S4
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Innovative education: Student midwives becoming future teachers
Background: According to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Competency Standards (2008), midwives are required to undertake teaching as part of their professional responsibilities. With this in mind...
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Gayle McLelland,
Jill French
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S4-S5
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Innovation in midwifery education: The Virtual Maternity Clinic
Rationale: Students enrolled in midwifery courses have limited access to midwifery placements to support their professional learning. Simulations support students’ preparation for their placements by ...
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Diane Phillips,
Cate Nagle,
Denise Patterson,
Maxine Duke
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S5
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MeL: Maternity E-Learning for maternity care clinicians
Introduction: MeL is a collaborative e-Learning joint venture between the Maternity Services Education Program (MSEP), the Royal Women's Hospital, Barwon Health and Creative Force. This program has be...
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Bree Bulle,
Caprice Brown,
Tanya Farrell
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S5
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Simulated, stimulated and self-efficacy measures: Evaluation of a pilot project in midwifery education
Aim: To evaluate the impact of introducing exemplary practice stimulus clips and authentic practice podcasts has on midwifery students’ confidence in developing the interpersonal skills required in mi...
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Rachel Smith,
Joanne Gray
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S5-S6
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A straight line up – Experiences of midwives in the Darwin Midwifery Group Practice
The aim of the presentation is to discuss the Darwin Midwifery Group Practice. Whilst Midwifery Group Practices (MGP) are not new, the Darwin MGP is unique in so many ways. Some of the unique features...
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Hilary Hunter
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S6
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Launching specific learning and support for Midwives and their colleagues working with Aboriginal families across NSW; a unique multidisciplinary education model
Aim: The aim of the Training Support Unit for Aboriginal Mothers, Babies and Children (TSU) is to provide Midwives, and their health colleagues, with the specific knowledge and skills to provide cultu...
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Jennifer Wannan
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S6
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Reversing the trend: Reopening a previously closed rural birthing
Beaudesert Hospital was Queensland's biggest rural birthing unit with an average of 370 births/year however, in line with a national trend, birthing services at Beaudesert Hospital Queensland closed i...
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Mary Sidebotham,
Hazel Brittain
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S7
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Strategies to provide midwifery care for women living in rural areas: Reaching for the stars or a matter of human rights
Background: The closure of Australian maternity units in rural areas is increasing.
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Elaine Dietsch,
Pamela Shackleton,
Carmel Davies,
Margaret Alston,
Margaret McLeod
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S7
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Interpersonal relationships in caseload midwifery: Creating a fulfilling, inclusive and sustainable future [workshop]
The growth of caseload midwifery services enables childbearing women to develop more fulfilling relationships with their midwives and to be included in their maternity care. It also enables midwives t...
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Christine Brook
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S7-S8
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Perceived influences on low risk women's decision making regarding induction of labour
Perceived influences on low risk women's decision making regarding induction of labour. The aim of this study was to investigate low risk women's, and midwife's, perceptions of the influences that imp...
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Jennifer Wrightson,
Anne McMurray,
Catherine Fetherston
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S8
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Reaching for the stars by re-conceptualizing time in childbirth
The aim of this paper is to explore how the concept of time is imposed on pregnancy, labour and birth and how this concept can be re-thought to provide a more positive experience for childbirth. Progr...
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Hilary Gatward,
Maralyn Foureur,
Deborah Davis
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S8
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Outcomes of the Next Birth After Caesarean (NBAC) Clinic
Australia has a high caesarean section rate (CS). In Western Australia the elective repeat CS rate is at an all time high, and is inversely related to the low rate of vaginal birth after a previous ca...
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Tracy Martin
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S9
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What do midwives fear?
Background: There is evidence that a significant number of women have fears around labour and birth and this seems to be increasing. Less is known about the fears of Health providers in maternity care...
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Hannah Dahlen,
Shea Caplice
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S9
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Choosing publicly-funded homebirth
There are at least 10 publicly-funded homebirth programs around Australia. Some have been evaluated, but most are relatively un-studied. Many studies have identified why women choose a homebirth, thou...
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Christine Catling-Paull
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S9-S10
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Choosing freebirth in NSW: An exploration of expectations and experience
Background: Planned homebirth without professional assistance, otherwise known as unassisted birth or freebirth, is increasing in Australia. While there are no official statistics gathered in Australi...
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Shari Bonnette,
Alex Broom,
Caroline S.E. Homer
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S10
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Birthing outside the system
Scientific evidence demonstrates that homebirth for low-risk women attended by registered midwives, is just as safe as a hospital birth. Scientific evidence and health policy however, considers homebi...
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Melanie Jackson
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S10
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With woman: A genealogy of Australian midwifery practice
This paper uses some key ideas of French theorist Michel Foucault to examine how midwifery knowledge and women's experiential/embodied knowledge have been subjugated by a dominant medical discourse. T...
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Elizabeth Newnham
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S10-S11
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Women's views and experiences of domiciliary postnatal care
Background: Postnatal domiciliary services have expanded dramatically in the last decade and the majority of women receiving public maternity care in Victoria and South Australia now receive at least ...
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Mary Anne Biro,
Georgina Sutherland,
Jane Yelland,
Stephanie Brown
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S11
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Exploring women's views of home-based postnatal care
Background: The care new mothers and babies receive is likely to have a significant impact on their ongoing health and well-being. In Victoria in the public sector, women are being discharged earlier ...
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Jennifer Hocking,
Helen McLachlan,
Della Forster,
Harriet Morton
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S11
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Women's experiences of the PRIME midwifery counselling intervention: Promoting Resilience in Mothers Emotions
Aim: This paper presents findings of a qualitative study conducted as part of a larger trial that evaluated the effectiveness a midwife-led counselling intervention, referred to as ‘Promoting Resilien...
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Jennifer Fenwick,
Jenny Gamble,
Debra Creedy,
Lesley Barclay
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S11-S12
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Six weeks of postnatal care: Midwives moving into the future
Traditionally in Australia, postnatal care for midwives has stops at 3–5 days after birth and is provided in the hospital environment. As caseload midwifery continues to expand across maternity servic...
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Sue Kruske
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S12
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The future: planning for client safety and quality outcomes [Workshop]
The Future: Planning for a mature safety culture. Aims: To introduce the participants to the Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF), MaPSaF focuses on critical elements of patient safety and pro...
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Pauline Lyon
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S12-S13
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A randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery for women at low risk of medical complications (COSMOS)—Primary and secondary outcomes
Background: Continuity of carer has been strongly encouraged in Victoria and throughout Australia, and caseload (one-to-one) midwifery models have been implemented in various settings. However, there ...
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Helen McLachlan,
Della Forster,
Mary-Ann Davey,
Tanya Farrell,
Lisa Gold,
Jeremy Oats,
Ulla Waldenstrom,
Mary-Anne Biro,
Maggie Flood,
Leah Albers
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S13
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Exploring satisfaction and burnout among caseload and non-caseload midwives
Background: Caseload midwifery (a one to one model of midwifery care) has been introduced in various settings across Australia. Midwives’ experiences of providing caseload have been conflicting; some ...
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Michelle Newton,
Della Forster,
Helen McLachlan
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S13
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Caseload midwifery – were we dreaming…or are we living our dream?
We have all heard about the benefits of continuity of caregiver for women and their families, and how working in continuity models of care increases work satisfaction for midwives. We’ve all heard abo...
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Lisa Frahm,
Heather Holmes,
Carol Jackson,
Roxanne Clisby,
Julie Mills
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S14
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Exploring implementation and sustainability of models of care: Can theory help?
Research on new models of care in health service provision is complex, as is the introduction and embedding of such models, and positive research findings are only one factor in whether a new model of...
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Della Forster,
Michelle Newton,
Helen McLachlan,
Karen Willis
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S14
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What theories should be guiding the midwives in preparing women for breastfeeding?
Problem: Health professionals including midwives encourage women to breastfeed; however, many women stop breastfeeding with a diminished sense of self.
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Shahla Meedya
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S14-S15
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Mother Friendly. Are we reaching for the Stars?
Could the Ten Steps of the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative be reaching for the stars? In October 2010 at the BFHI Co-Ordinators meeting Mayse Arendt a midwife from Luxembourg gave a presentation...
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Susanna Scurry
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S15
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“Am I ready?” Examining how social context impacts on a first-time mother's preparation for breastfeeding and early parenting
Background: The universally endorsed goal of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has not yet been achieved in Australia and it is clear the reasons are more complex than previously recognised. There ...
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Judith Reid,
Athena Sheehan,
Jennifer Fenwick,
Virginia Schmied
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S15
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In pursuit of ‘liquid gold’
Aim: International published accounts of women's breastfeeding experiences have reported high levels of dissatisfaction with health professional assistance and communication. This presentation will hi...
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Elaine Burns,
Virginia Schmied,
Jennifer Fenwick,
Athena Sheehan
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S16
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Closing the gap through innovative maternity care (The Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service)
Prior to the Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service (AMIHS), Aboriginal women in NSW had few options for antenatal care. Many women chose not to participate in mainstream services, most of whic...
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Elizabeth Best
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S16
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That same face is always with me
Background: Many Northern Territory reports document Aboriginal women's dissatisfaction with maternity services. In Darwin attempts to improve service delivery to remote dwelling women coming to Darwi...
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Cath Farrington,
Sue Kildea,
Lesley Barclay,
Sue Kruske
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S17
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Equitable access to fetal anomaly screening: Views of Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory and their health care providers
Background: Current antenatal care guidelines recommend that all women are offered screening tests for Down syndrome and other abnormalities in early pregnancy. However, there are large regional diffe...
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Alice Rumbold,
Kayli Wild,
Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama,
Sue Kildea,
Jacqueline Boyle,
Lesley Barclay
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S17
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Winging it: Case studies of midwifery partnership ‘with woman’ in aeromedical care
Purpose: To demonstrate, through two case studies the innovative ways that NSW Air Ambulance flight nurses provide midwifery support in high risk obstetrics in often challenging and adventurous condit...
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Mark Holmes
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S18
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Creating a new environment for networking: Maternity Support Network (MSN)
The aim of MSN is to provide leadership and support to achieve high quality maternity care across NSW, enabling maternity services to facilitate women birthing as close as possible to their community,...
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Sandra Forde,
Vanessa Clements,
Helen Cooke,
Ali Teate,
Tania Andrews,
Jenny Elliott,
Ann Kinnear,
Michael Nicholl
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S18
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Continuity, collaboration and change: Defining roles and boundaries for future practice
Aim: This paper will explore the perspectives of midwives and other health professionals, particularly child and family health nurses, on the transition of care between maternity services and communit...
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Kim Psaila,
Virginia Schmied
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S18-S19
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Competition or Collegiality and Collaboration – The way forward
The Victorian midwifery academics (MIDAC) group was established in 2007 in an effort to take a more global approach to addressing common issues experienced by each of the 7 universities providing midw...
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Carole Gilmour,
Meredith McIntyre,
Linda Jones,
Della Forster,
Michelle Newton,
Helen McLachlan,
Sara Stelfox
et al.
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S19
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Meta-WHAT! Cochrane reviews and other research stuff for dummies [workshop]
If your eyes glaze over when the words “statistic” and “research” are mentioned… If you were dreaming of cup cakes, beaches, boyfriends, girlfriends anything else but numbers during math classes… If y...
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Deborah Davis,
Caroline S.E. Homer
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S19
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Supporting midwives in delivering evidence-based public health recommendations: Effectiveness of a Safe Infant Sleeping E-learning program
Background: Sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) remain one of the leading causes of infant mortality in Australia. Midwives have a key role in supporting parents to use safe sleeping recommenda...
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Jeanine Young,
Niall Higgins,
Leanne Raven,
Alison Williams,
Robert Ferguson,
Melissa Bergin
et al.
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S19-S20
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Keeping baby SAFE in pregnancy project
SIDS and Kids South Australia in collaboration with the University of South Australia are currently (2010) conducting a health promotion project titled “Keeping baby SAFE in pregnancy” Using the acron...
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Jane Warland
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S20
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Does the way maternity care is provided affect maternal and neonatal outcomes for young women and their babies?
Background: Teenage pregnancy is associated with poorer maternal and neonatal outcomes including preterm birth, low birth weight babies, admission to neonatal nursery and perinatal mortality. Non-stan...
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Jyai Allen
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S20-S21
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Neurological breastfeeding
Background: Human breast milk is scientifically authenticated as the world's best natural food for human babies. Australian breastfeeding initiation occurs in 88% of women but only 18% continue to bre...
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Robyn Thompson
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S21
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The good midwife: Commencing students’ views
Aim: This study was undertaken to explore commencing students’ views of the good midwife.
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Mary Carolan
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S21
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Developing, implementing and evaluating a standardised clinical assessment tool for midwifery students across Victoria, using a before and after design
Background: In Victoria, there is an urgent need to increase the number of clinical places for midwifery students given the workforce shortages and large numbers of applicants to midwifery courses who...
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Harriet Morton,
Helen McLachlan,
Mary Anne Biro,
Meredith McIntyre,
Alison Patrick
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S21-S22
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Implementing flexible learning with a focus on midwifery student characteristics
Rationale: Universities are continually challenged to develop creative flexible teaching approaches to promote student engagement and make education more accessible. In midwifery education tensions ex...
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Sara Stelfox,
Cate Nagle,
Margaret Pszczolkowski,
Susie Macfarlane,
Lorraine Mielnik,
Diane Phillips
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S22
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Interprofessional education in maternity clinical practice: Is it the way of the future?
In 2007, the NSW Department of Health started work on an Interprofessional education (IPE) program that aimed to improve safety and outcomes in the assessment of fetal welfare. The Fetal welfare, Obst...
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Helen Cooke,
Maralyn Foureur,
Warwick Giles
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S22
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Story telling an innovation to improve healthcare incident disclosure
Background: Unexpected healthcare incidents resulting in harm are common in all settings including maternity care. Midwives are often required to communicate healthcare incidents to women and their fa...
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Suellen Allen
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S23
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When informed choice becomes informed coercion
Informed choice in maternity care is a primary aim of the Australian government consistent with the Millennium Development Goal #3, empowering women with knowledge. It is surprising to note that this ...
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Meredith McIntyre
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S23
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Rethinking ‘rites of protection’ during birth: A foundation for the future of midwifery practice
This presentation will discuss the findings of research undertaken during a PhD candidature. The aim of the research was to explore women's experience of birth, and midwifery practice during birth. A ...
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Rachel Reed,
Margaret Barnes,
Jan Allan
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S23-S24
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The self-prescribed use of aromatherapy oils by pregnant women: Cause for concern?
Background: Aromatherapy is a complementary therapy. It uses highly concentrated substances, called essential oils, which are extracted from plants. Essential oils are commonly used to relieve a range...
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David Sibbritt,
Caroline S.E. Homer,
Jon Adams
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S24
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