A new study indicates 40% of midwives in the United States are burned out or stressed and exhausted, putting them at risk for making medical errors and missing necessary patient care. Burnout also ...

When the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, no one expected that 2020 would also be the year we would find ourselves in the midst of the ...

When Katie O’Brien decided to become a midwife, she said it felt like a divine calling. She believed she was meant to be empowering and helping other women during one of the most pivotal and ...

Five factors are cited as crucial for midwives’ job satisfaction. They include possibilities for development, role conflict resolution, and burnout avoidance, as a University of Gothenburg study shows ...

AURORA, Colo. (December 20, 2021) – A new study indicates 40% of midwives in the United States are burned out or stressed and exhausted, putting them at risk for making medical errors and missing ...

Leah came back to work from maternity leave last year, right in the middle of the pandemic. She worked in community midwifery at the time and found the stress of the work completely unmanageable.

Mental health absences among nurses and midwives have led to almost 150,000 staff days being lost in a year, figures from freedom of information requests have shown. Requests from the Scottish Liberal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The U.S. has four midwives for every 1,000 live births vs. 30 to 70 midwives in other high-income countries.