Midwifery

laurakilleen

hey I'm a 6th year student thinking of doing midwifery. I was wondering if any students could tell me more about the course and how they find it?

And my major question is do you have to dissect dead bodies?

Thanks

Anita Blow

From what my friends in nursing have told me, you'd be better off going the General Nursing route and then specialising in Midwifery afterwards as Hospitals prefer to have someone with a Gen. Nursing degree + the relevant postgrad degree as opposed to someone who just has the Midwifery degree.
Also nope, nurses don't use the dissection room.

laurakilleen

Thanks for the advice but I have no desire to be a nurse whatsoever, I only wish to be a midwife. That's a relief, I'm not squeamish but I don't think I could cut open a dead body

Anita Blow

I'd recommend contacting the Nursing School and asking about job prospects with the Midwifery degree alone compared with the Gen. Nursing+Midwifery.
These days it's very competitive for jobs so it might be necessary to go the Gen. Nursing route first if you really want Midwifery!

laurakilleen

I talked to someone in the midwifery course and they told me that all graduates either got jobs here or in the UK. I want to move to London as soon as I graduate anyway so it doesn't bother me. I'd hate to be a nurse. My auntie is and I don't want to be giving old men sponge baths.

Extrasupervery

laurakilleen wrote: »

I talked to someone in the midwifery course and they told me that all graduates either got jobs here or in the UK. I want to move to London as soon as I graduate anyway so it doesn't bother me. I'd hate to be a nurse. My auntie is and I don't want to be giving old men sponge baths.

I would reconsider becoming a healthcare professional if this is your attitude towards nurses and the work they do, or indeed patients and the care they receive.

laurakilleen

I actually greatly admire nurses and the work that they do, they're saints. I didn't mean to offend. I'm just saying that that isn't what I want to be doing at all. I want to help women throughout their pregnancies and when they deliver. All I wanted to know about was how people found the course and if they liked it.

cat87

I'm in 1st year Midwifery at the moment, it's a very tough course believe me, we're on our third week of placement at the moment. If Midwifery is what you really want then is no point going through 4 years of nursing if you're not going to enjoy it and by then the hdip in midwifery could be gone as they want to get rid of that. Midwifery and Nursing is very different, Nursing is broad and diverse, Midwifery is all about the Woman.

If you have any questions pm me.