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  1. I live a daytime life when not at work. If possible... your first couple of weeks working nights, do not work several nights in a row. You'll just be screwed up for a few weeks, no matter what, and accepting that makes it easier. :) When I first beg...
  2. Kissing with contractions

    It's much easier for this to come naturally when there are no strangers around and people are in their own homes. I'd suspect it's far more likely and comfortable when people are having UC (Unassisted Childbirth).
  3. How to become a midwife?

    I was also a young single mom who wanted to be a midwife. I would suggest you go to a community college for a two-year ADN RN program and then a BSN completion program; this way you can work as a nurse after only two years of school, and if your plan...
  4. Frontier Bridge vs RN-BSN?

    Thanks for the quick reply (and the good news)! :)
  5. Frontier Bridge vs RN-BSN?

    Does the Bridge application also require the portfolio/paper?
  6. Frontier Bridge vs RN-BSN?

    Thank you! I feel the same way. And just talking to one of the counselors about this concern was delightful. Now my concern is getting in with so little nursing experience, even though I have the doula experience; they made very clear that the ADN-MS...
  7. Frontier Bridge vs RN-BSN?

    I am a new grad RN with an ADN. I work in a Surgical ICU at a level I trauma center. (I've wanted to be a midwife my whole life, but wanted critical care experience right out of school.) I am enrolled in a BSN completion program, but am feeling disco...
  8. Anyone enter CNM with little to no nursing experience?

    I agree with your feelings on this, but on the other hand, just as nursing schools have to prepare entry-level nurses to practice in any environment, so do nurse-midwifery schools have to prepare CNMs. Most babies in the US are born in hospitals, so ...
  9. Anyone enter CNM with little to no nursing experience?

    Well said. I have many years of OB self-education and work as a doula/childbirth educator in all settings, and my nursing experience will be in critical care. I am not sure I could work L/D nursing for long. :\ However, I would also value the experie...
  10. Am I too old to become a CNM

    I really appreciate this thread. I just graduated from my ADN program at 37; I've transferred to my BSN program, and want to fulfill the dream I've had since I was 16 and found Spiritual Midwifery in the dusty basement of a used bookstore where I wor...
  11. Critical care experience, especially a very busy SICU or MICU, should be carte blanche for just about any program, but you may not like that kind of intensity. If you work L/D you can at least improve the experience for people, but you do need to be ...
  12. I suggest you drive by the place *before* you're actually due to be there- like a day or two before, so you're sure you know how to get there. Good luck!
  13. Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    They don't even need to drink it; absorption through the skin of alcohol (aftershave, sanitizer, etc unwittingly used) can also be dangerous.
  14. Breaking into NICU-Advice please

    Even the online applications usually have the opportunity to upload a cover letter and resume. If not, then get the address of the brick and mortar HR department and drop it off, or find out the name of the manager of the unit and send it directly (t...
  15. Rising Above It All.....

    I am lucky to have seen this post today. I am a student in my last semester, and I'm completing an extra internship on a unit where I'd love to work- except yesterday I saw a lot of gossipy, depressing, manipulative, political behaviour among quite a...