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    A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business: A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives
    A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business: A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives
    A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business: A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives
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    A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business: A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives

    By Nester T. Moyo

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    Yet, despite the fact that many people who desire to work as midwives already possess the required education and expertise, only a small fraction of those individuals actually go out and establish their own practices. If you work as a midwife and are interested in acquiring more autonomy, alternatives, and opportunity for experimenting in your company, then this book is ideal for you.
    This book serves as a guide for midwives who are interested in starting their own midwifery businesses, whether on their own or a partnership. It covers both available choices. This book is designed to aid those who are considering opening their own company in assessing whether or not going into business for oneself is the most suitable course of action for them at this point in their lives. In addition to this, it provides guidance on the legal, financial, and commercial challenges that are involved in the process of establishing a private practice that is solely dedicated to providing maternity care. There is a discussion on the professional and ethical problems that midwives encounter, such as the necessity to prevent conflicts of interest and to maintain their professional integrity intact. In addition, there is guidance provided on the many aspects of marketing and pricing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNester T. Moyo
    Release dateApr 10, 2023
    ISBN9798227320742
    A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business: A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives

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      A Simple Guide to Starting Your Midwifery Business - Nester T. Moyo

      A SIMPLE GUIDE TO STARTING YOUR MIDWIFERY BUSINESS

      A Handbook of a Self-Study Course for Midwives

      Nester T. Moyo

      Copyright © 2023 Nester Moyo All rights reserved.

      No part of this book can be transmitted or reproduced in any form including print, electronic, photocopying, scanning, mechanical or recording without prior written permission from the author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction to the course

      Course description

      Eligibility to the course

      Course content

      Course evaluation

      MODULE 1: The big picture of midwifery care

      About this module

      What you will learn

      The profession of midwifery: The big picture

      Midwifery as a separate profession

      The midwife as an autonomous professional

      Global perspective

      The philosophy and model of midwifery Care

      Philosophy

      The Midwifery model of care

      Woman-centred care

      Definition of Midwifery Business

      Care in a midwifery business

      The perinatal experience

      Impact of the perinatal experience

      On the community

      On the family – husband, siblings and in- laws

      On the woman

      Impact of quality, respectful, dignifying midwifery care on women’s perinatal experience

      MODULE 2

      About this module

      Unit 1: The thinking process and the questions you have to ask yourself

      Why do I want to do this?

      To whom will you be providing this care?

      What are your qualifications?

      What are the benefits of your business?

      How will you overcome challenges and barriers?

      What resources are required?

      What is the role of your professional association?

      What is the role of the community leaders?

      Who else is working in this community?

      Who will work with you and be on your side?

      Unit summary

      Determine the legal structure of your business

      Choose a business name and a logo

      Create a Board of Directors

      Creation of the Board.

      Staff Policies and protocols

      Staff related policies and protocols

      Institutional policies and protocols

      Partners and investors

      Conduct market research

      Choose and find a location

      Plan your business

      How long will it take you to break even

      Find ways of making your business profitable

      Develop a formal business description and a project proposal

      Form a legal entity

      Develop a marketing and communication plan

      Strategic marketing

      Customer retention

      Competitive advantage

      Profitability drivers

      Short explanation

      Unit summary

      MODULE 3

      About this module

      Itemise the services your business will provide

      The services

      Acquire the infrastructure in which to provide these services.

      Location and situation

      Safety considerations when choosing the location and site of your business.

      The building and its surroundings

      The space inside

      Space configuration

      Designated functional spaces and suggested basic furnishings

      Administrative office

      Private quiet room.

      Reception

      Consultation, examination and treatment rooms for pre and postnatal and well woman care

      Birth room (if possible, 2)

      Multi-purpose room

      Kitchen

      Dining room if possible unless there is eating space in the kitchen.

      Bathrooms.

      Laundry space

      Storage place for medicines, and supplies

      Sterilizing room

      Waiting room

      Private quiet room (in case of foetal and other losses)

      Interior decoration

      MODULE 4

      Physiological birth in a midwifery business.

      What is physiological birth?

      Continuous risk assessment

      Management of obstetric emergencies

      Emergencies

      Transporting women in an ambulance

      Transporting newborn babies in an ambulance

      Things to remember

      Decision to transport network –another algorithm

      Co-care

      Monitoring, evaluation and learning

      Monitoring

      Indicators

      Evaluation

      Monitoring and evaluation framework

      Data collection

      Learning

      Final word

      Module summary

      MODULE 5

      Module 5 Unit 1  Some helpful considerations

      Finding a business mentor

      Mobilise resources

      The multiple roles of the proprietor

      The proprietor as a leader, manager, a counsellor and supervisor

      The proprietor as a care provider

      The proprietor as a teacher, mentor and coach

      The proprietor as a person

      The proprietor as a professional

      Module 5 Unit 2: Continuing professional development (CPD)

      i. Conducting a learning needs assessment

      Types of learning needs

      Global needs

      Organisational needs

      Institutional needs

      Individual perceived learning needs

      Principles of needs assessment

      Decide how you are going to collect the data

      Develop the data collection tool

      Administer the tool

      Clean, analyse and interpret the data

      Cluster and prioritise the needs into short, medium and long term needs

      Develop a capacity development strategy with specific goals and expected outcomes

      Develop a training plan for the year

      Isolate what has to be covered now (before the business opens)

      Develop learning materials

      Implement the training

      Assess whether learning has taken place

      Evaluate the CPD activity.

      Record the process and its outputs

      One year later!

      Module 5 Unit 3: Stress, burnout and resilience

      Stress

      Ideological discordance between the ideal care and care that is possible.

      Restrictive institutional and administrative polices and business politics to individual’s clinical decision making and practice.

      A feeling of being thrown to the deep end and expected to function with minimal or

      Heavy workload leading to physical, emotional and mental exhaustion leaving the

      Minimising stress and its impact

      Burn-out

      Prevention and management of stress and burnout

      Resilience

      How does resilience develop?

      Some characteristics that make individuals resilient

      Self-care

      The message from stress and burnout

      Module summary

      Reflection

      Introduction to the course

      Health care is a human right. Every woman everywhere has a right to midwife’s care, a midwife who meets the International Definition of a Midwife. In many communities birthing is a special process, which brings joy to the family. The journey through pregnancy into motherhood carries so much potential for beauty and empowerment in a woman’s life. Even so, for many women in the world, birth also carries numerous challenges and risks, loss and suffering due to lack of access to skilled maternity care.

      Each woman is unique. She has her own expectations and preferences of what the outcome and experience of her pregnancy should be. At most, her thoughts are generally filled with joy and positive anticipation, occasionally interrupted by fear and trepidation. Prospective fathers have similar wishes and several fears of their own that, in most cases, go unexpressed and/or unexplored. This leaves them frustrated and confused.

      In some settings, quality of care that saves lives is only available from private practitioners because of under- resourced and under-staffed government facilities.

      Many midwives have a strong desire to provide care in a manner that allows individualised care so that women and their partners have opportunities to express their wishes, deal with the fears and share their joys. These midwives, aim to increase the number of women who have access to high quality, respectful and dignified care, assisting women and their families in welcoming their little bundle of joy into the world on their terms, and, at the same time, contributing to the reduction of maternal, newborn and child deaths and disability as well as reduction of prematurity and stillbirths rates; but they do not have adequate skills and enough know-how to establish a private practice.

      This course provides you with an opportunity to view midwifery from a much broader and possible different perspective than you have ever experienced before. It is expected that you will experience professional transformation and motivation as you acquire new knowledge and skills specifically required for opening your own midwifery business. I hope you will join the tens of midwives who have made success in opening and managing their own midwifery business practices, for the benefit of women, newborn, families and communities.

      Take pride in playing an important role in making pregnancy and childbirth safer for women; welcome to and enjoy the course on Starting your own midwifery business!

      Although the handbook is written by midwives with midwives in mind, the material can be used by anyone who wishes to establish their own business.

      Course description

      This course is designed to equip you with knowledge and skills in:

      Scanning the big picture horizon of midwifery care as a business

      Utilising the philosophy and midwifery model of care to underpin your midwifery business

      Approaching step by step to creating your own business including the processes of developing collaborative partnerships and community engagement

      Selecting from suggested approaches on how to make your business flourish and be successful

      Making use of existing networks of midwives in business

      Eligibility to the course

      To get the greatest benefit out of this course, you must be a qualified midwife who has gone through a midwifery education programme recognised in your country. You must be registered as a midwife with an up-to date license for practice and you are aspiring to start your own private midwifery business. If you are about to retire and would like to prepare yourself for a business in your area of expertise, or you are a young, mid-profession midwife who would like to try something new, or you are desirous of moving from being an employee to an entrepreneur, and possibly an employer, then this course is for you as it will provide you with what you need.

      Course content

      The course content is presented in five modules. Module 1 covers content on the big picture of midwifery, the philosophy and model of midwifery care, the birthing experience and the impact of care on the birthing experience. Module 2 addresses most of the administrative and legal aspects to be considered and adhered to during the process of starting a midwifery practice. Module 3 is focused on the site of the practice and priorities to be considered for this. Module 4 discusses the place of your business within an integrated health care system. Module 5 is centred on the midwife practitioner as the proprietor of the business, the multiple roles and responsibilities of the proprietor, continuing professional development, and the issues related to stress, burnout and resilience.

      These modules are interrelated and build on each other; however, they are self- contained units which are complete in their own right. It is possible to take only one module depending on your needs and preferences. However, if you have never engaged in creating a practice before, it is advisable to approach the modules sequentially and /or link a period of practice to each. It is also possible to take a module, go out and put it into practice before engaging in the next module. This can be discussed at the start of the course for supportive guidance.

      Course evaluation

      There are personal and professional benefits gained from completing this course as you move through the process of starting your business. You will gain prerequisite competencies and new information as you work through this course. You will learn about many legal aspects of midwifery you might not have thought of before as well as laws and regulations controlling the practice and education of midwives. Hence whether you end up opening a midwifery business or not, you will have grown to appreciate the value of what midwifery has to offer on a broader scale. You will also be able to use some course materials as reference.

      MODULE 1: The big picture of midwifery care

      About this module

      This module presents the big picture of the midwifery profession and midwifery care, demonstrating the broader context within which your midwifery business has to

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