thanks for this feedback on the NMAP. I've passed it on to the editorial committee that spent many late nights and weekends putting NMAP together over the past year. It's good to hear that the document can be useful in ways we'd not thought of.
Barb
Dr Barbara Vernon
National President
The Maternity Coalition Inc
PO Box 269
LYNEHAM ACT 2602
02 6230 2107
From: Dr Penelope A Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:30:48 +1000
To: Ozmidwifery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] NMAP
I agree about the power behind NMAP.
I have passed its reference and relevance on to a couple of hundred 3rd year general nursing students (doing a family health unit of study), a class of Grad. Dip. Mid. Students, and six Master of Mid. Students (the latter who, with me, attended the launch in NSW at Parliament House a living classroom). I have had wonderful, informed, well-argued, and (in many cases, thanks to NMAP, well-referenced) essays come in and presentations from the general nursing students about continuity of carer, choice in childbirth, etc . I am truly indebted to the people who put in the hard yakka¹ to get this document together and into the public sphere. From my students and myself, thank you.
Penny B.
