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Being with women with risk: The referral and consultation practices and attitudes of New Zealand midwives

Abstract:

Managing risk is an important part of a midwife’s work and the decision to refer for an obstetric consultation is one way that this is expressed in practice. The research that this paper presents took a mixed method approach and describes the referral for obstetric consultation practices and attitudes of New Zealand midwives. It found that the consultation referral rate was 35%, that there were a large number of reasons for referral, and that midwives usually continued to provide some midwifery care even when risk had been identified. Midwives spoke of the centrality of the woman despite her level of risk.

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consultation, Midwifery, referral, risk, with women