Skilled Heartfelt Midwifery Practice Episode 4

In this podcast, Dr Claire Feeley explores the concept of skilled heartfelt midwifery practice, the subject of her latest book- defined as the integration of a midwife’s attitudes, beliefs and philosophy in support of women’s autonomy, aligned with values of relational care and expert clinical skills. This podcast series follows her recent book with five key episodes attending to each chapter.

Today’s episode explores the third and final component, expert clinical skill- while the personal qualities, attributes and behaviours (such as emotional intelligence, respect and dignity etc.) of midwives are essential to providing good quality care, it is also paramount their clinical skills are robust. Therefore, this episode highlights the five attributes that characterised expert midwifery practice; knowledge, proactivity, technical, responsiveness/adaptability and intuition.