WORKING AS A COORDINATOR MIDWIFE IN A TERTIARY ...

Overview of the Thesis
Chapter Two will provide the contextual basis for this study with the literature review.
This comprises research accessed from journals, textbooks, national project management
reports, conference presentations and intranet data base research.
Chapter Three deals with my choice of methodology. My study was informed by the
hermeneutic philosophical approach of Heidegger (1927/1962). I utilised van Manen’s
(1990) work to guide me in my method of interpretation. This chapter describes the
ethical approval, protection of participants, analysis, trustworthiness and the general
background to this study.
Chapters Four, Five and Six are the data analysis chapters:
Chapter Four is entitled “The ‘Performing Art’ of Leadership” and is divided into four
sub-sections. Coordinators each described similar feelings about their working
environment and the roles they play within their workspace. The titles of these four sub-
sections are: Being the ‘Hub’, In the Eye of the Storm, The Role Plays of Leadership,
Leaving Work Behind and Moving Forward.
Chapter Five is entitled “Lived Time”. Chronologically, time ticks by at a steady rate but
within the context of the tertiary deivery suite setting it becomes different things at
different times for coordinators. There are five sub-sections in this chapter which are
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