What is it about?
The paper describes challenges facing midwifery leaders in relation to how they maintain their core self-identification of 'I am a midwife'
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Why is it important?
Clinical leadership has been highlighted as important for patient care, staff wellbeing and organisational performance. However, clinicians moving to formal leadership and managerial roles may struggle to maintain a positive role and social identity.
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This paper is important because it is the first to add the voices of midwives to debates about how clinical leaders might maintain positive identity.
Bernie Divall
University of Nottingham
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This page is a summary of: Negotiating competing discourses in narratives of midwifery leadership in the English NHS, Midwifery, November 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2015.07.006.
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