Abstract

SANTOS, Ana Maria Poço dos; GOMEZ CANTARINO, Sagrario; SILVA, Teresa Maria Campos  and  VELASCO ABELLAN, Minerva. Training of midwives in Spain from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2014, vol.serIV, n.3, pp.131-137. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV14054.

Context: The training of midwives in Spain has been conditioned by the social culture of the country and the female figure. Objective: To present an analysis of the current legislation in Spain from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. Methodology: Literature review of legislative compilation, Dictionary of the Royal Academy, Nursing education books and international databases and government agencies. Results: In the second half of the 20th century, three different medical professions were unified into one, leading to the first signs of experience, first through the studies of Technical Health Assistant, then through the Diploma in Nursing and currently through the Degree in Nursing. Conclusion: The formative development and the lack of training programs, among others, leads us to consider the need to discover how they achieved training in order to understand the current position of this specialisation.

Keywords : history; midwife; training; skills.

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