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Specializes in Perinatal, Education.

Does anyone know much about travel nursing in OB internationally?? I have seen ads for positions in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Does anyone know anyone that has done this? Do any of you UK nurses have American travelers?

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Does anyone know much about travel nursing in OB internationally?? I have seen ads for positions in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Does anyone know anyone that has done this? Do any of you UK nurses have American travelers?

I have had the pleasure of working with plenty of travelers - unfortunately I have never spent much time with them on how they went abourt getting their quals recognised ie allowed to work - but a good start is the nurses registration board in the state you are looking to travel in. All states in Australia have mutual recognition so once your are registered moving from state to state is a matter of paying the fee and getting a liscence for the next state. I am in New South Wales (Sydney). The registration boards website is http://www.nursereg.nsw.gov.au that should at least give you insight into the paperwork side of things....

I have worked in New Zealand (about 8 years ago) and the New Zealand Nurses Board at that time loved to drag their feet in terms of red tape. They had one meeting a month to consider new international applicants and it went for a set number of hours, if your application didn't get to the top of the pile it was held over till the next meeting. If you are considering New Zealand I would suggest very early prep and be prepared to wait (Of three of us who applied at the same time 1 got liscence in 2 months, I took six months and the 3rd was still waiting after 12 months)

Cheers,

Peter

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Does anyone know much about travel nursing in OB internationally?? I have seen ads for positions in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Does anyone know anyone that has done this? Do any of you UK nurses have American travelers?

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think only midwives staff l&d in the UK.

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You are correct ayndim, only Midwives staff labour and delivery also antenatal and postnatal wards in UK with some support from health care assistants, a mixture of midwives and registered nurses, staff neonatal units

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

The midwife I spoke to in England, a while back, had the same role I did as an RN in the USA. Can someone here from UK please clarify your education and role in L and D? Thanks! I am curious.

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The midwife I spoke to in England, a while back, had the same role I did as an RN in the USA. Can someone here from UK please clarify your education and role in L and D? Thanks! I am curious.

In the UK Midwives are the practioners of normal childbirth, some are also registered nurses but not all. Midwives are responsible for all aspects of of care of the woman and her baby from preconception through labour and delivery to the postnatal period. Women in the UK can be booked for midwife only care, which means they are not referred to an obstetrician at all. Midwives work in hospital and in the community, they provide care and deliver women and their babies in hospital and at home. I think your role is probably very similar in the care that you give to the labouring woman but a midwife in the UK would also deliver that woman if there were no deviations from normal, we wouldn't call a doctor.

That isn't to say UK midwives don't care for women with complicated pregnancies or deliveries, they do, but the lead professional in these cases is always an obsterician and they organise the plan of care.

That's very much a brief overview of the things we do, hope it makes sense.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

what educational preparation is required for nurse midwifery in the UK?

And thank you for the info you gave me. It's enlightening. The midwife I spoke of said she did NOT deliver babies at all. Yet she called herself a midwife. I guess that is where my confusion comes from. Sorry....

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what educational preparation is required for nurse midwifery in the UK?

And thank you for the info you gave me. It's enlightening. The midwife I spoke of said she did NOT deliver babies at all. Yet she called herself a midwife. I guess that is where my confusion comes from. Sorry....

All education is university based they have links with hospitals to allow for the practical experience also needed to obtain the qualification.

There are two routes either 3 year direct entry midwifery course for those without a nursing qualification. The 18 month post registration course is for Registered nurses who wish to train as midwives. Both courses run at 2 academic levels, degree and diploma but the practical achievements are the same for both levels. Evidence of, observation of 10 normal deliveries, actually undertaking 40 normal deliveries under the supervision of a registered midwife and care of at least 40 women in labour.

At least 100 prenatal examinations and care of at least 100 women and their babies in postnatal period including post natal examination. Again these are just snapshots of the requirements. I've added a link to the standards set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council

http://http://www.nmc-uk.org/nmc/main/publications/Standardofproficiency_v2.pdf

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Sounds an awful lot like our CNM route here in the States. They require a four year BSN degree, PLUS a 2 year master's and certification (post masters) for midwifery. RN's here do NOT deliver babies, except in precipitous cases where a doctor or midwife cannot be in attendance (due to things happening too fast). RN's here attend deliveries, but doctors, NPs or midwives actually deliver the babies and do the post partal visits/assessments.

Sounds as if the roles of midwife are the same, but perhaps education a bit differently tiered. Sounds as if your midwives do more of an intense diploma-based education? Interesting. Do RN's there have baccalaureate degrees, diplomas, or both?

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I'm confused too but this has been very interesting...Wonder what we labor and delivery folk would be working as if we were in England if we could even work there at all...

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just a precision a few MW schools in the US offer a mw certificate at a BSN level.(Baystate in MA for ex)

Other schools do offer a MW MS for non nurses at a bachelor level (downstate in Brooklynn).

ACNM took a position in favor of Midwifery education at a Doctorate level for the next few years..(see last issue of JMWH).

And of course you have the direct entry midwives licensed in a few states and accredited by MANA.

Hopes this helped

Ginny

Sounds an awful lot like our CNM route here in the States. They require a four year BSN degree, PLUS a 2 year master's and certification (post masters) for midwifery. RN's here do NOT deliver babies, except in precipitous cases where a doctor or midwife cannot be in attendance (due to things happening too fast). RN's here attend deliveries, but doctors, NPs or midwives actually deliver the babies and do the post partal visits/assessments.

Sounds as if the roles of midwife are the same, but perhaps education a bit differently tiered. Sounds as if your midwives do more of an intense diploma-based education? Interesting. Do RN's there have baccalaureate degrees, diplomas, or both?

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Has anyone gone into the peace corps after becoming a nurse? If so, how was your experience?

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