Lost Midwife

Trauma Columnist · Feb 24, 2008

I am sorry that you are so unhappy. What is stopping you from taking the courses needed to get qualified in the US? Maybe when you have been here several years, the opportunity will present itself? Good luck.

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 24, 2008

Agree with traumaRUs.

Hope you decide to take the courses. There is nothing like being content in your job.

Good luck!!

Belinda-wales, RN · Feb 25, 2008

What is stopping you from taking the courses needed to get qualified in the US? Maybe when you have been here several years, the opportunity will present itself? Good luck.

Thanks - but if only it was that easy

Selke · Feb 25, 2008

Belinda, I feel you are giving up before exploring all your options. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing is experienced in tailoring an MSN towards UK trained midwives. It is a distance program so you can live anywhere in the world and complete the program. You have to find a preceptor, however. You may get credit for your past experience. The only way you'll know is to CALL THEM and ask to speak to someone in admissions. You live in Gilbert AZ? Do you work for the IHS? You can have clinicals at any IHS site that does births. There are several hospitals in AZ and Four Corners. Many of them have Frontier educated CNMs who give preference to FNS students. If you work for the IHS after graduation they have a loan repayment program. The best midwives I've worked with were originally educated under the UK model. DON'T GIVE UP!!!

http://www.midwives.org

beckinben, CNM · Feb 25, 2008

Philadelphia University also has an advanced-placement program developed for foreign-trained midwives.

http://www.philau.edu/midwifery/mscertapo.htm

Please don't give up. I wish ACNM was a little more accepting of internationally trained midwives. You have a lot you could teach us.

Belinda-wales, RN · Feb 25, 2008

Thanks for all the support - I am not giving up I have the two colleges mentioned looking over my credentials so fingers crossed there will be hope - Its just I am so experienced and well trained you know in UK 75% of all births are attened by a midwife - I have attended hundreds of birth and supported hundreds of families through pregnancy- I am a far more compentant and educated as a midwife - than I am a nurse yet my nursing qualification is excepted without question- madness.

epiphany · Feb 28, 2008

I know midwife who was like you but took the necessary course/exams to transfer her credentials. Don't let the frustration eat you up and prevent you from doing what it takes. It is annoying, but bureaucracy is like death and taxes - we all have to deal with it. Hope you'll try.

Belinda-wales, RN · Feb 29, 2008

Thanks- I know I am just frustrated but I am hopeful things will workout in the end fingers crossed I will have to make the best of where I am although it is so difficult.

Belinda-wales, RN · Mar 9, 2008

Up date - Ihave stopped feeling sorry formy self and started making progress - I have contacted Frontier and looking over my transcripts and are trying to see if they can help me - Also one of the obs I work with wants beto join her practise and is looking in to how fesible it would be to get privlliages at the hospital-although this is all in the future as I guess it will take at the very least over two years to get my midwifery sorted at the very least.

Selke · Mar 10, 2008

Yay! Lost Midwife, you will soon be Found ... hang in there and keep up posted. Maybe we'll meet up one day soon in AZ!

Belinda-wales, RN · Jun 29, 2008

so I have an up date I have been accepted at frontier it was not easy my application had to go in front of the Dean and she has accepted me I have to do the whole midwifwery program - but I am very pleased at least I will be able to work as a midwife again, So ten years from qualifying I am going to be a student midwife again- who said you can not be younge again.