By Shirley R. Jones, Rosemary Jenkins(auth.)
The second one version of this profitable textual content is an important and available consultant to criminal elements of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery scholars. Midwives will locate this ebook offers them with the data and figuring out they require to make experience of the felony ideas that impact their day by day paintings and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to increase and strengthen their perform adequately and with self assurance.
This re-creation comprises new and revised case stories all through. It additionally includes new sections on NHS responsibility, the Human Rights Act, the knowledge security Act, reproductive applied sciences and disciplinary pathways.
· Relates criminal matters to daily midwifery practice
· Written via an skilled midwife for midwives
· available, suitable and up-to-dateContent:
Chapter 1 The criminal Framework (pages 1–24):
Chapter 2 The Statutory occupation of Midwifery (pages 25–47):
Chapter three The Statutory law of Midwifery (pages 48–63):
Chapter four responsibility in the NHS (pages 64–84):
Chapter five Negligence in Midwifery perform (pages 85–112):
Chapter 6 Consent and Refusal (pages 113–130):
Chapter 7 Use and Abuse of data (pages 131–143):
Chapter eight features of legislation regarding copy and baby safety (pages 144–160):
Chapter nine features of Employment legislations (pages 161–171):
Chapter 10 program to Midwifery perform (pages 172–196):
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253) Protection from Harassment Act 1997 Scotland Act 1998 Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 Treaty of Amsterdam 1997 Cases Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER 118 Donoghue v. Stevenson [1932] AC 562 (HL) Chapter 2 The Statutory Profession of Midwifery In July 2002, midwifery in England and Wales celebrated its centenary as a profession regulated by statute. However, midwifery training started before 1902. According to Ridgway (2002: 756), there was a period from 1567 to 1662 when midwives were trained and licensed by bishops.
This decision opens the way for a new health profession by `direct entry'. Current practitioners who are already trained in that field, such as some health visitors, will have to provide evidence of the required competences before being admitted to the new part of the register. During the preparation of this Order, there was a three-month informal consultation period that led to the production of the Draft Order in April 2001, then further formal consultation before presentation of the final SI.
Doctors took control of the technological developments and the midwife rapidly lost her autonomy. Midwifery was not organised at the time and many felt that it would disappear as a separate profession. As an indicator of the generally weak position of the midwife, it was the women, through organisations such as the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) and AIMS, who began to challenge the situation from their perspective. At the beginning of the 1980s, the Select Committee for Health and Social Services produced a number of influential reports.