Show Notes
For our third episode, we are incredibly lucky to have with us Patricia Hughes.
Patricia is an associate professor of Nursing & Midwifery in Trinity College, Dublin and has over 30 years’ of clinical and managerial experience from her work in Ireland, the UK and New Zealand where she has lead on a range of innovative service developments including the provision of a DOMINO community midwife service and a waterbirth facility at the Coombe.
She has recently founded Midwifery & Nursing Excellence which provides midwifery & Nursing expertise in quality improvement, risk management and service innovation.
Today we’ll be talking about informed consent and what choices women have in relation to how and where and when they give birth.
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The mission of this podcast is to empower pregnant women with the most up-to-date information on all things pregnancy & birth by interviewing maternity health care professionals on a different topic every episode.