Findings: The study achieved a wide sample representative of midwifery experts across all ICM regions and countries, language groups, and income categories. Only a small number of competencies relating to the wider role of the midwife were endorsed as essential competencies. Competencies and components...
Intrapartum care has undergone profound changes over the past fifty years. Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care takes a broad sweep to examine these changes and their intersection with midwifery, in particular their impact on the midwife's role during labour and birth. It is an invaluable...