Barb - I now reside in Victoria and deeply miss
midwifery 'over there'.
-------Original
Message-------
Date: 03/31/05
12:03:50
Subject: RE:
[ozmidwifery] Brisbane hospitals & alleged discriminatory
employment
I am interested in this alleged discrimination issue. As a QNU
(not QNC) Councillor I would invite persons affected in Queensland to
email me off list so I can take specifics, keeping people's
identity out, to the next Council meeting. people can also
contact QNU direct as well. I and others have heard of this
particularly in regional & rural areas so I would be disappointed
if this is occurring in a very larger tertiary institution that
has a large number of existing staff, including non DEM not
to have an issue with deployment. A major health organisation still
denies there is a shortage of nurses/midwives!!
Unfortunately all staff in health areas are being devalued to
the point to feeling they are only *tools* or a piece on a chess board
that get moved around to plug up the gaps!! Workloads and its
grievance format was introduced 2 years ago by the MX170 in Qld and
yet we still have a major employer arguing how ones goes about closing
beds- bunkum!! They do not want to know.
How many midwives would be interested in joining the
funded daily morning walk the DG has
organised for their corporate staff? Yes this walk is funded! Wouldn't
it be great to tell them how hard it is to deliver quality care at the
coal face, how case loading will assist the recruitment and retention
of midwives and how many Bl.... risk managers are frustrating the care
given because you spend so much time crossing the t's and dotting the
i each day!
I am becoming impatient. The Health Amendment Bill 2004 is
being held up at the moment for very good reasons which Qld President
ACMI Jenny Gamble has written about in the journal. I won't go into
that in any depth as its been done to death but at least it is being
held up. I hope the bureaucrat's listens and amend the offensive
parts!
Kiwi Kim - isn't it great being a midwife over there. I
have just come back from visiting family in Te Puke and it was
inspiring to see shops/houses with these signs 'Midwifery-by-the Sea',
'Bay Midwives' and the respect people have of midwives especially the
marginalised groups such as ethnics, Maori, islanders and rural
communities. it is indeed a truly exciting time!
Cheers Barb
I think this decision is a relatively new
one by this particular hospital and is yet to be tested by
any new Australian DEM's. The Rego Board (called the QNC
here) probably isn't even aware of it.
Another interesting point, the QNC also
has to change one of it's by-laws 1st before QLD starts training their
own DEM's as one of their by-laws still state that a midwife
must 1st be a nurse! They may have already reviewed this
by-law, but I have not heard about it yet, it's the only thing holding
up starting DEM"s here.
Your email is the only ozmid mail that
comes with an attachment to me, but as you said, probably just
part of your email.
Cheers, Joanne.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005
9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery]
Brisbane hospitals & alleged discriminatory employment
Thanks for the update Joanne and the
reminder re my anti virus update. Had been away for a few days
and was updated yesterday around the same time I was on line.
Apologies I did not realise it wasn't finnished when I sent the email
through.
Nearly all my ozmid mail appears to have
an 'attachment' when it comes in but actually doesn't. It is the
email itself that is the 'attachment' if you know what I mean.
So the answer to your query is no I did
not send an attachment .... my guess is it was the email
itself.
All the best for the campaign to have all
midwives employed who wish to work at the Brisbane hosi's you
mentioned will not employ DEM's. I think they would need to be
very careful they are not setting themselves up for a discrimination
claim/s as it is the registration board that determines whether the
training requirements of all midwives (here and o/s) have been met to
register as a midwife, and not the area health services. What
does the QLD rego board think about the hospitals taking the Rego
board's laws into their own hands ?
One would think they might view this as
the hospitals stepping over the line, as one would
imagine......!!
Kind Regards
Sally-Anne
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re:
testing my email again as I am receiving but unable to send - sorry
for the humbug
Not sure why, but an attachment came with
your email, did you send one? Also, note at the bottom of this
email the out-of-date internal virus datatbase.
Cheers, Joanne.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re:
testing my email again as I am receiving but unable to send - sorry
for the humbug
Helen,
The same thing has happenned to me over
the past 2-3 weeks. I find the odd one gets through and others
don't.
Kind Regards
Sally-Anne
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:13
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] Re:
testing my email again as I am receiving but unable to send - sorry
for the humbug
I seem to be able to receive from but not
send to the list. I have contacted the list administrator
but haven't heard anything back yet....
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG
Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.0 - Release
Date: 21/03/2005
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG
Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.0 - Release
Date: 21/03/2005
No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG
Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release
Date: 27/03/2005
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Date: 30/03/2005
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