RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-06-02 Thread Tania Smallwood
@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] students learning If the woman invites the student to be there and the MIPP is happy what prevents them from being there. Surely we are letting them know what the real world is like and the reality is that MIPP are working uninsured and having to cope

RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-06-01 Thread Kirsten Dobbs
9:57 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning For fyi, student midwives here in SA are *forbidden* to seek experience of any kind with any independently practicing midwife, on threat of a fail grade for the clinical topic /or expulsion from the course

Re: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-06-01 Thread Jennifairy
Kirsten Dobbs wrote: I can back up Kate, (as we attend the same uni!) I have only ever been encouraged and supported to attend births with independent midwives by our uni. Kirsten My apologies to all for casting aspersions on both uni's when it is one that is forbidding students to work

Re: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-06-01 Thread Stephen Felicity
all just part of the overall climate for midwifery and birthing women in our country. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning I can back up Kate

Re: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-06-01 Thread Andrea Quanchi
: Kirsten Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning I can back up Kate, (as we attend the same uni!) I have only ever been encouraged and supported to attend births with independent midwives

[ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-05-31 Thread Jennifairy
Justine Caines wrote: Dear Liz So nice to hear your honesty. But what are you learning? None of this is about what women can do or supporting them to achieve the best outcome, it is about protecting a system and it's regular inhabitants. It is production-line birth. Why not ask an

Re: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-05-31 Thread Belinda Maier
Jennifairy wrote: Justine Caines wrote: Dear Liz So nice to hear your honesty. But what are you learning? None of this is about what women can do or supporting them to achieve the best outcome, it is about protecting a system and it's regular inhabitants. It is production-line birth. Why

RE: [ozmidwifery] students learning

2006-05-31 Thread Kate and/or Nick
For fyi, student midwives here in SA are *forbidden* to seek experience of any kind with any independently practicing midwife, on threat of a fail grade for the clinical topic /or expulsion from the course. While this is the case at one uni, it does not appear to be at the other uni. We have

RE: [ozmidwifery] students

2006-04-09 Thread Jane Wines
Andrew Bisits was one of the speakers at the breech conference. He really seemed like someone who could keep normal in the arena. Just talking to him and hearing how he manages breeches all fours/kneeling active labour and that he is so involved with training. He seems to have very

Re: [ozmidwifery] students

2006-04-08 Thread Emily
Hi Justine well im only starting that rotation tomorrow so im not really sure what it entails fully. i did do a final year medicine obstetrics rotation through sydney university though and it was truly appaling to be honest. it was not even compulsory to attend a single birth, it was all learning

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-12 Thread Liz Newnham
, October 10, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Well said Liz. Although I can't and wouldn't speak on behalf of other 'nurse/midwives' (which incidentally is not how I see myself, but is a common term used both here

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-10 Thread Liz Newnham
How true, enjoy it, love, Liz. - Original Message - From: Jen Semple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Yes, Liz, I completely agree. Thrilled to hear

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-09 Thread Jen Semple
what you meant by I wonder if it is more difficult for them. Wonder if what is more difficult? Liz - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-09 Thread Liz Newnham
. Good luck with finishing your course, Liz. - Original Message - From: Jen Semple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Hi Liz, I was responding

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-09 Thread Tania Smallwood
, and political, because it forms part of an historical change for the autonomy of midwifery. Good luck with finishing your course, Liz. - Original Message - From: Jen Semple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-08 Thread Liz Newnham
Hi Jen, I was curious to ask what you meant by "I wonder if it is more difficult for them". Wonder if what is more difficult? Liz - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [o

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-06 Thread Cheryl LHK
Thanks for the common sense Fiona! Well said. Cheryl From: Fiona Craig Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:22:33 +1000 Dear Abby, I think

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-05 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
You have both said it all very well i think. marilyn - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Yes

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-05 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
Wonderfully saod trish. Please don't give up. marilyn - Original Message - From: Trish David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998 Abby, if I didn't

[ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
Hi Trish, Abby, could I ask where you are studying midwifery??? I'm not studying midwifery, nor did I say that I was. I do know quite a few students and midwives and have had numerous discussions with them about what they do and don't learn. I've read a fair bit about 'wise' women, don't

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Callum Kirsten
eir advice and support. It is them all who i learn the most off, not textbooks, not the uni. Cheers, Kirsten Darwin. ~~~start life with a midwife~~~ - Original Message - From: Abby and Toby To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Trish David
Abby, if I didn't think I was trying to impart a degree of wisdom, and assist students to find their own wisdom, together with the women (heard of the follow-through experience???) and the lovely midwives in hospitals who assist them with onsite learning, and the VERY occassional homebirth midwife

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Jen Semple
As a current Bachelor of Midwifery (aka direct entry)student, I can tell you a little bit about my course. I think everybody here agrees that there is no such thing as the perfect woman, the perfect midwife, or the perfect midwifery course. That said, I can promise you all that we have learnt

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Callum Kirsten
like yourself. Kirsten Darwin. ~~~start life with a midwife~~~ - Original Message - From: Trish David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998 Abby, if I

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Callum Kirsten
LOL Jen, there are sometimes i just can't be quiet! ~~~start life with a midwife~~~ - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Kirsten Wohlt
I agree with you Kirsten (in Darwin)!! Trish, go nowhere! You are an amazing midwife/teacher/mentor/spokeswoman, and as one of your students, I don't feel as though I could ask for a rounder or more balanced perspective from someone teaching me. I think I will make a good midwife one day, in

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
Hi Trish, Abby, if I didn't think I was trying to impart a degree of wisdom, and assist students to find their own wisdom, together with the women (heard of the follow-through experience???) and the lovely midwives in hospitals who assist them with onsite learning, and the VERY occassional

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
Many of the skills we learn don't come from the uni itself, it's when we are on clinical placements and with our follow thru woman that we learn the most. I am forever indebited to the woman who have allowed me to be with them and to the amazing midwives who offer their advice and support.

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
Anyway, I hope my current perspective as a student is helpful.Jen 3rd year BMid, Melbourne Thanks Jen for sharing. It is such a shame that there is not the opportunity for practice of the theory you are learning. I was just recently talking to a friend about that. She had brought it up

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Belinda Maier
Message - From: Abby and Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998 Hi Trish, Abby, if I didn't think I was trying to impart a degree of wisdom, and assist

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Kirsten Wohlt
Belinda, This comment of yours really struck a chord with me - I'm glad it has been put out there! I would also have to argue that many women out there who do not experience the type of birth we desire or see as wonderful and achievable do not see themselves as victims of an uncaring

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
Kirsten wroteAs for the debate on VE's etc, just because we learn something does not mean we will all go out and perform them every 5 minutes! There are many skills taught to us that could be seen as unnecessary interventions, why as Andrea Robertson in the Midwife Companion ( love this

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Callum Kirsten
2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterine rupture 1998 Kirsten wroteAs for the debate on VE's etc, just because we learn something does not mean we will all go out and perform them every 5 minutes! There are many skills taught to us

Re: [ozmidwifery] Students, training and other things was Re: uterinerupture 1998

2004-10-04 Thread Abby and Toby
I would also have to argue that many women out there who do not experience the type of birth we desire or see as wonderful and achievable do not see themselves as victims of an uncaring system. I would have to say that many of the women in my study would be pissed off if you categorised them as