Dear all,
Just back from the Homebirth Conference so stand back and watch me
roar!!!!!!!!
Why are midwives affiliated with any nursing groups at all, We have to
add a conference note shed that snake skin and emerged as a pheonix
from the ashes of our birthing flame.
Midwives let us unite and dispell the ties to nursing.. If nurse you be
as well as a midwife because of your community role then let you join
or affiliate to two seperate groups.
DOWN WITH THE anf (I think that must be Austalian Nurse Federation
??????), down with the QNC, and all nursing councils. Unite let
midwives who are MIDWIVES govern our own actions and not hang on to the
preverbial cancer that constricts our very existance.
Suggestion a collection of names from all midwives who want a MIDWIFERY
COUNCIL and for us to force them to respect our difference and demand
indivdual identity.
nigel
Ps there is more!!!!!!
--- Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Jen
> Thanks for this.
> I have forwarded your message on to Anne Marie
> Scully at ANF, who is a
> member of the Bachelor of Midwifery Taskforce which
> prepared the 'Reforming
> Midwifery' discussion paper.
> Also to Diane Cutts who chaired the taskforce.
>
> Let's all remember that it is the responsibility of
> the midwifery profession
> to define midwifery.
> Joy Johnston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> Behalf Of Jen Byrne
> Sent: Friday, 10 September 1999 15:48
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: anf and direct entry
>
> Dear list.
> As most of you may be aware the University of SA and
> Flinders University
> are collaboratively developing a three year
> undergraduate midwifery degree
> (Direct Entry) to be offered in 2001. We have
> appointed a project
> officer. One of our aims is to coordinate a
> national collaboration. We
> would be pleased to hear from any interested
> universities.
>
> This letter has been sent to the University of SA
> and Flinders University
> from the ANF SA Branch following a number of letters
> sent to them asking
> them to review their policy on direct entry when
> they had their annual
> state delegates conference in August.
>
> I QUOTE(I had great difficulty in writing this even
> though it is a quote -
> referring to midwifery as nursing!! )
> "...delegates voted overwhelmingly to maintain ANF's
> curent policy position
> regarding midwifery including opposition to direct
> entry programs.
>
> The ANF has a national policy which oppose direct
> entry education programs
> for specialist areas of practice such as midwifery
> and mental health
> nursing. The basis for this is that we believe that
> it is necessary for
> nurses to undertake a broard-based undergraduate
> program and to specialise
> at postgraduate level. This is particularly
> relevent in the contemporary
> environment where clients' needs are so diverse and
> nurses must be able,
> more than ever before, to respond to the full range
> of needs. Further
> more, there continue to be chronic shortages of
> specialist nurses in rural
> and remote areas particularly of midwives and mental
> health nurses.
> Employers in these areas continue to assert that
> direct entry courses will
> not address these shortages.
>
> Consequently we wish to reiterate our concerns about
> the university's plans
> to introduce a direct entry midwifery program, as we
> do not believe it is
> in the best interests of the community or the
> nursing profession."
> END OF QUOTE
> There was some debate at the ACMI conference in
> Tassie around the issue of
> should we just ignore ANF. As ACMI does not have an
> industrial arm we have
> nowhere to go for industrial issues execpt ANF. In
> SA the professional
> officer is supportive of Direct Entry and
> understands midwifery is a
> separate profession, however we are up against a
> national policy.
>
> What does the list think about this issue?
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