- Title
- Managing projected midwifery workforce deficits through collaborative partnerships
- Creator
- McIntyre, Meredith; Patrick, Alison; Jones, Linda; Newton, Michelle; McLachlan, Helen; Morrow, Jane; Morton, Harriet
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/159641
- Identifier
- vital:12019
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1071/AH11020
- Identifier
- ISSN:0156-5788
- Abstract
- To address workforce shortages, the Australian Government funded additional nursing and midwifery places in 2009 pre-registration courses. An existing deficit in midwifery clinical placements, combined with the need to secure additional clinical placements, contributed to a serious shortfall. In response, a unique collaboration between Midwifery Academics of Victoria (MIDAC), rural and metropolitan maternity managers (RMM andMMM)groups and Department of Health (DOH) Victoria was generated, in order to overcome difficulties experienced by maternity services in meeting the increased need. This group identified the large number of different clinical assessment tools required to be being completed by midwives supervising students as problematic. It was agreed that the development of a Common Assessment Tool (CAT) for use in clinical assessment across all pre-registration midwifery courses in Victoria had the potential to reduce workload associated with student assessments and, in doing so, release additional placements within each service. The CAT was developed in 2009 and implemented in 2010. The unique collaboration involved in the development of theCATis a blueprint for future projects. The collaboration on this project provided a range of benefits and challenges, as well as unique opportunities for further collaborations involving industry, government, regulators and the tertiary sector. © 2012 AHHA.
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Relation
- Australian Health Review Vol. 36, no. 1 (2012), p. 75-78
- Rights
- Copyright © 2012 AHHA.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1605 Policy and Administration; Clinical placements; Collaboration; Maternity services; Workforce
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