Historical & Contemporary Impact
What is the safest childbirth intervention?
what is spontaneous vaginal birth?
In the 19th century, nurses and midwives were primarily from what social class?
What is the working class?
Before childbirth was medicalized, who was the central figure in the lives of women giving birth?
Who is the community midwife?
The process by which childbirth was shifted from a natural, community-based event to a hospital-centered medical procedure.
What is medicalization?
How do we counteract the negative impact of medicalized childbirth?
What is reintegrating midwifery into mainstream healthcare?
What group of women was historically excluded from formal nursing programs, reinforcing a lack of diversity in the profession?
What is BIPOC?
Who is in competition with midwives as 19th century progressed
What is physician?
What was childbirth redefined as opposed to a natural process?
What is medical emergency?
Why was sterilization implemented?
What is the erasure of the Indigenous population?
Women-centered approaches were transitioned to what?
What is hospital-based care?
How do hospitals limit the scope of midwifery practice?
What is limiting midwives' autonomy?
In the 1830s and 1840s, why did some Toronto hospital nurses receive a beer allowance as part of their compensation.
What is to help them cope?
How did colonial policies impact Indigenous midwifery in Canada?
What is erasing their traditional knowledge?
What is the name of the story that forced babies to be taken away from mothers?
What is Magdalene Laundries and Maternity Homes?
What systemic changes are needed to tackle disparities in midwifery?
What are change healthcare policies and practices/advocacy?
Why is understanding the legacy of exclusion important for contemporary nursing practice?
What is ongoing need for diversity?
How did midwives adapt when physicians gained more influence in obstetric care during the 19th century?
What is by switching to monthly nursing?
How did language contribute to the loss of authority for midwives in the medical field?
What is redefining midwife as a nurse/domestic caregiver?
What Canadian government policy in the 1980s disproportionately affected Indigenous women’s birthing experiences?
What are evacuation policies?
This term refers to systemic changes needed in healthcare policies to ensure that midwifery care is accessible to all, regardless of race, class, or ethnicity.
What is equity in healthcare?
How does fostering a more inclusive nursing workforce benefit healthcare systems?
What is by better serving diverse populations?
What systemic issue has made it difficult for BIPOC midwives to find jobs and advance in their careers?
What is exclusionary hiring and favouritism?
What is animalistic or uncivil?
Nearly half of coerced sterilizations in Canada were performed at these federally operated healthcare institutions.
What are Indian hospitals?
What type of imbalance prioritize medical authority over patient autonomy?
What are power imbalances?