RE: [ozmidwifery] Question on Notice to Tony Abbott re antenatal item issue and rural doctors

2006-09-12 Thread B G
Title: Message I have seen in a small country private hospital nurses doing sheep herding trick- one nurse puts a woman in one room while the Dr goes into the other room with a woman who has had her BP and urine checked by the nurse and is lying down 'ready' for Dr. After he has finished he

Re: [ozmidwifery] Question on Notice to Tony Abbott re antenatal item issue and rural doctors

2006-09-12 Thread Justine Caines
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Question on Notice to Tony Abbott re antenatal item issue and rural doctors Dear Barb, Melissa and all I too live in rural Aust and understand the issues esp that there are many good ENs out there. We have a local one who is doing the Bmid at UTS (hooray!). I guess

[ozmidwifery] Interesting article

2006-09-12 Thread Helen and Graham
Encouraging parents too rare September 12, 2006 09:00am Article from: SMACKING should be outlawed, crying can't be photographed and children are getting fatter, but are parents really getting it so wrong, asks Sue Dunlevy You can't trust parents these days. They put junk food in the

Re: [ozmidwifery] Question on Notice to Tony Abbott re antenatal item issue and rural doctors

2006-09-12 Thread cath nolan
Sadly I have in the last year seen ante natal care provided by RNs. I was troubled by the practise of an RN who had let her mid rego lapse and had not worked as a midwife for 14 years, and then given the job of providing antenatal care to the women of a remote town. Management saw no

Re: [ozmidwifery] Question on Notice to Tony Abbott re antenatal item issue and rural doctors

2006-09-12 Thread diane
I too have seen a EN on the ward where my daughter was, telling her to wake her baby because she hadnt been fed for seven hours, A) this was incorrect, B) there was no reason to wake the babe even if it was C) when asked , she said she was just told to make sure babe fed (? from the one