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Shelley Bennett

Midwife and Supervisor of Midwives Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Drug administration in midwifery: Confusion, illegal practice and the supervisor of midwives

A published audit (Birch and Culshaw, 2003) and personal experience provides evidence that midwives sometimes administer prescription-only medicines (POM) in the absence of an emergency without a...

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