Changing the culture on labour ward to increase midwives promotion of birthing pools: an action research study

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Changing the culture on labour ward to increase midwives promotion of birthing pools: an action research study

Waterbirth practice has the potential to support a midwifery model of care and yet little is known about how the organisation of care can be changed to improve the use of birthing pools. This action research study focused on a group of midwives working on a labour ward in an English obstetric led ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Russell, Kim
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Hospital midwives Birthing pools Organisational change Action research Foucault Discourse analysis
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35457/

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