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Collective action for the development of national standards for midwifery education in Australia |
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| Authors: | Nicky Leap Pat Brodie Sally K. Tracy |
| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Health, Level 7, Building 10, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;2. Midwifery and Women’s Health Research Unit, Royal Hospital for Women, Barker Street, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia;3. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia |
| Abstract: | This article describes a sequence of events that led to the development of national standards for the accreditation of Australian midwifery education programmes for initial registration. This process occurred within a climate of polarised opinions about the value of the introduction of three-year degree programmes for midwives who are not nurses (known as the BMid in Australia) and concerns about the invisibility of midwifery within nursing regulation, education, policy and nomenclature.Concerted efforts to develop standards to inform the introduction of BMid programmes through a process of collective action are described. This involved arguing successfully for the positioning of midwifery as a separate profession from nursing, with a need for its own discreet regulation. |
| Keywords: | National education standards Midwifery education Midwifery regulation 3-year Bachelor of Midwifery Australian Midwifery Action Project |
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