midwifery
midwifery
Definition
mid·wifery (mid′wif′rē, -wīf′-; -ər ē)
noun
the work of a midwife; esp., the body of knowledge, skills, and practices of a modern midwife
midwifery
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- practice: If not then is she really ' practicing midwifery ' at all?
- lead: Midwifery Led Unit This area can be found on the first floor of the hospital in the Jeffcoate wing.
- visit: The role of the link tutor is highly valued by practice staff and students on health visiting, midwifery and nursing programs.
- base: Promote women centered, evidence based midwifery practice. 18.
- do: It became clear that I was being trained to " do midwifery " rather than " to be a midwife " .
- practice: Having five sisters, who are all midwives, and a mother who has been practicing midwifery for some 30 years.
Adjective modifier
- independent: Eric the Heretic bears down on the market niche of ' independent midwifery ' Sack the manager!
- medical: The unit is actively involved in the training of medical, midwifery, nursing and sonography students who attend clinics throughout the week.
Modifies a noun
- pre-registration: All funding for nursing and midwifery pre-registration students will now be routed through SFC.
- profession: The midwifery profession was not asked whether it wanted two levels of practitioner.
- diploma: All students on the pre-registration midwifery diploma programs receive this type of bursary.
- lecturer: Midwifery lecturers continue to be informed by Trust maternity service users groups.
- staffing: Midwifery staffing levels should be in line with those recommended by the Audit Commission, namely 1.15 midwives per woman in labor.
- curriculum: Open and distance learning are possible for parts of the midwifery curriculum.
Noun used with modifier
- pre-registration: Students who are studying for the pre-registration midwifery course at degree level are subject to a means tested bursary.
- post-registration: Final year pre-registration students or any post-registration midwifery student may request references obtained from any source, including the BNI.
- caseload: She has published widely in many journals and disseminated caseload midwifery practice as a workable national model in the NHS.
- community: The threat that has been hanging over local community midwifery services is becoming a fact.
- NHS: They then find that the NHS midwifery service is unwilling to provide a midwife to attend them anywhere other than hospital.
- team: The study was preceded by a pilot comparison of caseload care and team midwifery involving 160 women and 8 midwives.
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