RE: [ozmidwifery] The Advertiser today...

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 03:03:37 -0700

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So inaccurate about what NP are going to be doing in Qld! Trials are in various areas- ED, Palliative Care, Rural and in Cairns Midwife. There are clear defined protocol and endorsed processes 'within' hospital frameworks. Scope of practice is clearly defined. Another example of AMA scaremongering and throwing a tantrum because they cannot get their own way. Check out the Queensland Nursing Council web site for info on NP.
Cheers Barb
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] The Advertiser today...

 

Could this be the thin edge of the wedge…do they see this as a way of banning independent midwifery too, or am I just being paranoid?

 

 

Tania

(who is aware that thankfully, we don’t have to train as nurses any more to become a midwife, but the reality is that many of us are…)

 

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17070060%255E2682,00.html

 

Nursing back-up under attack
KARA PHILLIPS, Health Reporter
29oct05

INDEPENDENT nurse practitioners, who are not made to report to doctors, should not be able to work in South Australia, the Australian Medical Association says.

AMA state president Chris Cain said yesterday there was "growing concern" about nurse practitioners who did not have the full back-up support of a medical team.

The comments come just days after The Advertiser reported the chronic GP shortage has reached crisis point in the city's outer suburbs, with doctors claiming GP patient ratios at 1:5521 in the Woodcroft area in the south and 1:7596 around Williamstown in the north.

Interstate, particularly in Queensland where doctor shortages are severe, there has been extensive debate about whether to introduce independent nurse practitioners allowed to treat some patients without answering to a doctor or hospital medical team to ease the strain on the system.

"We would strongly oppose that move here in SA," Dr Cain said.

 

 

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