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02 August 2016 02 Aug 2016

Volume 24 | Issue 8

ISSN (Print): 0969-4900

ISSN (Online): 2052-4307

Taking time for self-care

One thing that I have found particularly challenging over the past couple of months of working as a preceptee midwife is the number of postnatal women, or women in the early stages of labour, whom the midwives are allocated to care for at one time This was something that I experienced during my first week on the delivery suite

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