Mapping factors that may influence attrition and retention of midwives: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An appropriately staffed midwifery workforce is essential for the provision of safe and high-quality maternity care. However, there is a global and national shortage of midwives. Understaffed maternity services are frequently identified as contributing to unsafe care provision and adverse outcomes for mothers and babies. While there is a need to recruit midwives through pre-registration midwifery programmes, this has significant resource implications, and is counteracted to a large extent by the high number of midwives leaving the workforce. It is increasingly recognised that there is a critical need to attend to retention in midwifery in order to develop and maintain safe staffing levels. The objective of this review is to collate and map factors that have been found

SUBMITTER: Moncrieff G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10603492 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature