National Review of Nursing Education

Midwifery Education

Literature Review and Additional Material (Revised Edition)

APPENDIX A

Contributors Details

Sally Pairman BA RGON RM MA Current Doctoral Student

Sally is Head of School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Denedin in New Zealand. She coordinates the Bachelor of Midwifery and Postgraduate Midwifery programs including master of Midwifery degree.

Sally is the immediate past President of the New Zealand College of Midwives, a position she held for five years, and she continues to be actively involved in midwifery politics, currently holding the position of education consultant to the NZCOM. Sally has recently completed a three-year term as a member of the Nursing Council of New Zealand (midwifery's regulatory body), where she was the deputy chairperson and held the education portfolio.

Sally established the fist direct entry Bachelor of Midwifery program in New Zealand as well as the first Master of Midwifery designed specifically for midwives. She has represented New Zealand midwifery in a number of national and international forums.

Sally is co-author with Karen Guilliland, of " Midwifery Partnership: A Model for Practice", a monograph describing a theoretical model of midwifery as a partnership between the woman and the midwife. This model has been used extensively in New Zealand and Australia as a framework for midwifery education curricula and midwifery practice.

Anne Nixon RM

Anne is a former faculty member of the Midwifery Education Program, Ontario, Canada. She was centrally involved in the campaign to legalise and integrate midwifery in Canada and in developing the initial midwifery education program in Ontario.

She coordinated and taught the French language stream of the midwifery program at Laurentian University, Sudbury, as well as teaching in the English stream. Anne is currently living in Australia and is researching the introduction of ‘direct entry’ midwifery in Australia for her Ph.D. studies.

Tina Heptinstall RM MSc

Tina has been a midwife since 1985 and has practiced in both hospital and community settings in the UK, and has spent a short time working in Western Australia. She has been in midwifery education since 1992 and her current responsibilities involve managing the direct entry pre-registration BSc (Hons) and Dip HE midwifery programs. The curriculum introduced in September 2001 is based upon the UKCC midwifery competencies and is informed by 'Fitness to Practice' and 'Making a Difference'

Janice Butt RN RM ADM PGCEA MA Ed

Janice is a Lecturer, Curtin University, Western Australia. She was previously at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth.

Beatrijis Smulders

Beatrijis is Director of the Birth Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has been an international ambassador for the Dutch Maternity System and is an acclaimed leader of midwifery in the Netherlands. She has been actively involved in the education of midwives for over 20 years.

Holly Powell Kennedy CNM PhD FACM

Holly is the Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Nurse-Midwifery Program at the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the School of Nursing, University of San Francisco. One of 2 additional reviewers are assisting us complete this review.

Pru Davey RN CM

Pru is a Midwifery Educator with the Centre for Women at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital In Adelaide, South Australia.

Kathleen Fahy RN CM BN Med PhD

Dr Kathleen Fahy is an Associate Professor and Midwifery Coordinator at the University of Southern Queensland, Queensland.

Pam Shackleton RN CM

Pam is the Co-ordinator of the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery at the Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.

Alana Street RM FACM

Alana is an Executive Officer for the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated.

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