RE: re BMid

2002-03-09 Thread Sadie Geraghty
Dear Macha, I am a BMid midwife, trained in the UK, coming out to work in Perth in July. No-one has said anything negative to me about my qualification when I was applying for jobs in Oz. On the contray, I've been welcomed with open arms. On my course I was taught midwifey, but I also

Re: RE: re BMid

2002-03-09 Thread Kleimar
Dear Macha: Firstly I want to say I totally agree with everything Pete said, and if the course had been available just a little earlier I would be there too. But there may be some grains of truth in what is being said to you. Please correct me others as I may well be wrong. I have completed

Anti-D

2002-03-09 Thread jireland
Melbourne MWS RedCross refused to release Anti D yesterday saying they are not releasing to MWS anymore.Has anyone else had this experience recently ie 2 weeks ago it was fine. Jan

Re: BMid

2002-03-09 Thread TinaPettigrew
In a message dated 9/03/02 5:32:40 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am currently studying biomedical science, and may be allowed to transfer over to b mid next year. I am excited about this, but I keep running into all these women who are so negative about this!!! They

Re: Anti-D

2002-03-09 Thread Lois Wattis
Sorry Jan - what do you mean by MWS? I have accessed Anti-D through local hospitals in WA fairly recently without any problems. One hospital required verbal authority from the GP/ob who was "linked" with my client, but once phoned through the anti D was given to me to give to the woman

B-Mid Student

2002-03-09 Thread Dean Howell
Dear All, I am a brand new 3-year b-mid student at Flinders Uni and I attended the Monday launchwith the other students too. It gives me such great hope and encouragement hearing you all talk about this wonderful new opportunity for potential midwives! We all couldn't keep the silly grins

Re: re BMid

2002-03-09 Thread Kirsten Blacker
If it's any help, here in the USA I get but how can you be a midwife, you don't have a master's degree I've explained what the courses were that I took, and the slightly different role that midwives have in Oz compared to Australia. And then I just let my skills and capabilities speak for

Fw: re BMid

2002-03-09 Thread Lois Wattis
- Original Message - From: Lois Wattis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Macha McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 8:59 AM Subject: Re: re BMid Dear Macha - I endorse the comments of the other listers - especially Sadie, who said: I can't be poached for