FW: placements
This is an inquiry from two Scottish midwifery students (direct entry). I hope someone can offer placements to them. Joy -Original Message- From: Graeme McCabe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:placements Dear Ms Johnston, We are two student midwives from Glasgow,studying at Napier University in Edinburgh.We are currently in our second year and in June 2003,as part of our course, we have to carry out a 5 week elective placement.We are therefore writing to you to enquire if you know of any hospitals,birthing centres or any contacts etc which would be happy to take student midwives for this period of time. We do not have any particular preferences in which areas we wish to work in,we would be happy to see how midwives in Australia work in general.We would be very grateful if you would be able to help us out in any way. I hope you do not mind us contacting you,we found your e-mail address from reading about students from our University who had visited Australia. Many thanks and we look forward to hearing from you. Karen Steele and Lisa Hay. e-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Ms Johnston, We are two student midwives from Glasgow,studying at Napier University in Edinburgh.We are currently in our second year and in June 2003,as part of our course, we have to carry out a 5 week elective placement.We are therefore writing to you to enquire if you know of any hospitals,birthing centres or any contacts etc which would be happy to take student midwives for this period of time. We do not have any particular preferences in which areas we wish to work in,we would be happy to see how midwivesin Australia work in general.We would be very grateful if you would be able to help us out in any way. I hope you do not mind us contacting you,we found your e-mail address from reading about students from our University who had visited Australia. Many thanks and we look forward to hearing from you. Karen Steele and Lisa Hay. e-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I just want to introduce myself. My name is Johanna Gast and I am yet another direct entry Bachelor of Midwifery student from Flinders Uni in SA. I am a trained teacher and teacher librarian who has 'defected' to midwifery. I would be very interested to hear from anyone who would be interested in mentoring me during my course or from anyone who would just like to give advice. I m looking forward to reading or your words of wisdom on the Oz mid list. You'll be hearing from quite a few of us I am sure. Johanna Gast SA
mentorship
Hi Kellie. I am a multi skilled rural midwife on the far north coast of NSW and I am very active in our sub branch of the ACMI. I haverecently completed my Masters in Ad. Midwifery and havegood skills with research, analysis and political activism to achieve change. I am off to Vienna in two weeks to present a paper at the ICM Conference. I would be happy to provide some mentorship to you if I'm not too far away as I believe that mentorship is sadly lacking in midwifery! Let me know if I can be of any assistance. Cheers Liz McCall
Flinders Uni PI Insurance !!!!!!!!
Hello wise women of the list I have had snippets come through to me today from B Mid students from SA Re the withdrawal of Flinders Uni PI insurance for the B Mid students !!! Is there anyone out there in cyber space who can share any further light on this !! Jennifairy, Allison, Kackie K Thanks folks.. Yours in birth, Tina Pettigrew Birthworks Bachelor of Midwifery Student and Independent CBE Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student Collective. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMidStudentCollective [EMAIL PROTECTED] " As we trust the flowers to open to new life - So we can trust birth" Harriette Hartigan. ---
Re: Flinders Uni PI Insurance !!!!!!!!
yeah its been talked about here since we started, 2day it was on the front page of the paper so I guess the Uni must be getting quite desperate. I'm hoping that it will provide the impetus needed for the DHS or other Govt body to get involved properly in this big mess (the cynical part of me says otherwise) sort out the whole PII issue. There have been letters in the local paper from Mr Mrs Average calling for insurance reform one this a.m. pointing out that NZ has a perfectly good system that we could copy (yeah well we've known that for a while) so maybe theres a change on the way. Was kinda nice that for once there was a front page story about midwifery that didnt involve some poor git copping the bad end of the health care system. (okok, bad choice of words, well then lots of poor gits in the form of students instead, not some mid being sued or some mothers' bad outcome bcoz of mw 'incompetence' or etc) All I can say is 'get used to it' try find out when your Uni's insurance is due for renewal, this is just the first domino as far as I'm concerned. The other thing Ive thort of is that it puts the Unis in a very bad situation, from both sides - if they do not find an insurer decide not to send students on placement without it, then it seems to me that the students have a case for litigation themselves (yes stupid as it sounds) for all sorts of reasons - loss of income (some students have chucked in jobs so they cld do the course), just the fact that we will perhaps not be able to graduate or fulfill the criteria for registration etcetcetc. Something must be done, I just cannot envisage they will allow it to get to that point. What I know is that Flinders is pinning its hopes on a broker in London who is trying to find an off-shore insurer. In one way I hope that its not that easy, I want the Govt to not be let off the hook on this so easily. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello wise women of the list I have had snippets come through to me today from B Mid students from SA Re the withdrawal of Flinders Uni PI insurance for the B Mid students !!! Is there anyone out there in cyber space who can share any further light on this !! Jennifairy, Allison, Kackie K Thanks folks.. Yours in birth, Tina Pettigrew Birthworks Bachelor of Midwifery Student and Independent CBE Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student Collective. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMidStudentCollective [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ As we trust the flowers to open to new life - So we can trust birth/*/ Harriette Hartigan. --- / _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
