Empowerment and Burnout of Midwives at the End of Health Emergency From COVID-19

Evaluation of empowerment of midwives,Number of midwives affected by burnout

As the fifth wave of COVID-19 comes to an end and the pandemic's countermeasures expire,
 there is a need to assess the impact of the pandemic on health care providers, especially
 midwives, as the professionals deputed to promote and protect women's holistic health, in all
 phases, physiological and otherwise, of the life cycle. The midwife considers the person as a
 whole, in which the mind-body-culture components interact profoundly. Prevention and
 containment measures have impacted on midwifery clinical and nursing practices with the
 mandatory continuous use of personal protective equipments (PPE) and social distancing to
 protect the patient and the practitioner, effectively hindering the intimacy of the
 woman-midwife relationship. The impact assessment focuses on two dimensions: learning,
 investigated as perceived empowerment, and perceived malaise, investigated as burnout.
 Empowerment has a positive connotation, which can offset burnout, a syndrome that affects the
 physical, psychological and emotional health of midwives and can have significant negative
 implications on midwife turnover, patient safety and outcomes, and the efficiency of
 healthcare organisations.