Fighting a losing battle: Midwives experiences of workplace stress.

CONCLUSION: This study reveals that as the number and extent of stressors increase, the negative implications and effects for midwives rise as the opportunities to 'do' midwifery in the way they value decrease, and that commitment to and engagement with the work diminishes. Although the midwives said that midwifery itself could be stressful, their responses clearly identify that it is not the actual job but other related, contextual and other environmental factors that make it so. PMID: 30082214 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Women Birth - Category: Midwifery Authors: Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research