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Dear Elaine,
Midwives working in country hospitals currently
work as nurses as well as you state. They are usually oncall for labouring women
and when a midwife isn't on duty nurses look after antenatal/postnatal women
(well that has been my experience when i was a nurse working in a country
hospital). The employer could change the way they provide services with the few
midwives working in a caseload practice and employed to only look after the
childbearing women and the nurses to care for the sick. The midwives where I
have worked before were on call a lot and trying to work some shifts as well.
There is the potential for great models of care in the country as often the
midwives know the women anyway. Just some thoughts
Jackie Kitschke
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