ArticleInternational journal of women's health2018
Abortion-related care and the role of the midwife: a global perspective.
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- Women's perceptions of person-centered comprehensive abortion care and associated factors in Northern Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study in a humanitarian setting.Conflict and health · 2026Article
- Abortion learning mechanisms for nurses and midwives: a scoping review of evidence.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Failed by the System: A Content Analysis of Midwives' Experiences and Challenges When Providing Termination of Pregnancy Care.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- Exploring Emotional Well-Being and Support of Midwives Who Provide Termination of Pregnancy Care: An International Survey.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Abortion care process based on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Japan: A qualitative study.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS · 2025Article
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- Views and practice of abortion among Queensland midwives and sexual health nurses.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2022Article
- Midwives' integration of post abortion manual vacuum aspiration in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a mixed methods case study & positive deviance assessment.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- A critical interpretive synthesis of the roles of midwives in health systems.Health research policy and systems · 2020Article
- Conscience and conscientious objection: The midwife's role in abortion services.Nursing ethics · 2020Article
- Educating Midwives as Abortion Providers: Implementing Innovative Models for Standardized Training in Abortion Care.Journal of midwifery & women's healthArticle
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Abstract
introductionThe International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) represents 132 midwifery associations in 113 countries. The ICM disseminates the Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice (EC) that describes the global scope of midwifery practice. The basic (core) and expanded (additional or optional) role of midwives in providing abortion-related care services was first described in 2010. A literature review about three items that are particularly critical to access to abortion services was conducted. Findings that emerged in the recent 2016-2017 update study about these three items are presented.
methodsA modified Delphi study was administered via the Internet in a series of three rounds. Thirty-seven statements of abortion-related knowledge and skill were presented.
resultsA total of 895 individuals participated. The total of respondents across all three rounds represented 90 of the 105 member countries at the time of the study. The role of midwives in providing comprehensive abortion care, including referral for abortion and provision of postabortion family planning, achieved the necessary 85% agreement to be designated as essential (basic) knowledge or skill for the global scope of midwifery practice. The provision of medication abortion and performance of manual vacuum aspiration abortion were designated as optional for midwives who wished to provide these services. Endorsement of these latter practices was highest in both Francophone and Anglophone regions of Africa, Asian Pacific countries, and countries at a lower state of economic development.
conclusionThe role of midwives in provision of abortion-related care services was reaffirmed in the recent Delphi study to inform the update to the EC. The role of midwives as direct providers of medical and vacuum aspiration abortions was reaffirmed for those individual midwives who wish to obtain the requisite competency to provide those services, in jurisdictions where these services are legally authorized.
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