Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
This podcast aims to discuss and muse a different birth topic every month, with our hosts, who collectively have over 80 years of midwifery experience. For some episodes we will be inviting special guests to contribute towards our conversation.
We do not intend any of our discussions to act as medical advice, and all of our considerations are merely our own thoughts and feelings on that particular subject, utilising our collective experience and knowledge. Our aim is to bring together the wider community of birth, combining clinical experience with the felt experience in a hope to demystify pregnancy and birth, and share information and evidence.
Please visit our Instagram TeaandToastTalkingBirth or Tweet us @birth_tea with your thoughts, comments or suggestions for future shows.
Title music by Rojj from Fugue
Supported by The University of Hull
Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
Episode 4: Professionalism and Midwifery
A special edition of Tea & Toast for the new academic year, this episode features two of our student midwives at the end of their first year of the programme as we reflect upon professionalism, what it means in midwifery and how it impacts on the experience of childbearing women and their families through pregnancy and birth.
Resources
Halldorsdottir, S. & Karlsdottir, S. (2011) The primacy of the good midwife in midwifery services: an evolving theory of professionalism in midwifery. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 25; 806–817.
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) The Code: professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. London: NMC. https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/nmc-code.pdf
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) Enabling professionalism in nursing and midwifery practice. London: NMC.
https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/other-publications/enabling-professionalism.pdf