Empathy and spiritual care in midwifery practice: Contributing to women's enhanced birth experiences.

CONCLUSION: Midwives' empathy and spiritual care can play a key role in creating positive birth and mothering experiences. More research into the role of empathy and spiritual care in enhancing midwifery practice in all birth settings is recommended, as is the increased embeddedness of empathic regard and the notion of 'birth as sacred' into midwifery curricula. PMID: 25997730 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25997730?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - May 18, 2015 Category: Midwifery Authors: Moloney S, Gair S Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research

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