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Boundaries: work and home

Abstract:

It is time for midwives to debate how they make choices concerning competing demands between home and work. As the resources, both personal and institutional, available for maternity care have become constrained, some midwives have been slow at adapting their professional outlook to cope with these changes. As a result, a number have become burnt out and not been in the work force for some time. Others have become disillusioned and left midwifery altogether. In this context of health service reform and change, debate will open fundamental questions about how midwives set boundaries between their home and work lives.

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burnout, public/private boundaries, self-employed midwives, work life home balance