Merovingianne

I'm just looking for books that have vocab and phrases in English and then in another language. Not books teaching a language, or books teaching nursing in a different language, but vocab primers that translate terms from English to another language.

I'm a student nurse, who will actually be doing OB for the first time this semester. But I'm older (2nd degree), and will be having kids in the next few years... I would like my first to be at a birth center. I don't think I'm ready to go all the way homebirth for the first. After that, I'd like to do a home birth for subsequent children. In the DC-MD-VA metro area, there is a CNM group that specializes in homebirths--direct entries MW are illegal in MD and DC. I also personally like the idea of having a CNM attend my birth over a CM (although I would take Ina May Gaskins over CM, CNM, and OB-GYN any day!) I would only plan to labor in a hospital after researching the hospital thoroughly vis a vis IV, routing fetal monitoring, C-section rate, episiotomies, etc. I know that by saying this, I sound like I would be a pain in the a** in the hospital, which is why I've chosen the way I have.

In the US, there are countless langugage resources for health practitioners who want to learn 'medical Spanish'--not textbooks, just language primers that give the vocab in Spanish, and outline how questions should be asked in Spanish. I wanted to know if anyone has seen similar types of language-learning material for other languages besides Spanish. I don't think a textbook in the target language would be as helpful (initially) just because without first learning the terms in the target language, you'll be faced with vocab you never learned in a general language class and that will most likely not be in any standard dictionary in the target language.

Thanks for your reply...now, a follow-up question: Assuming that getting a visa isn't a problem, the only issue is passing the boards then? I wouldn't have to go to midwife school in France as well?

Does anyone have any experience outside of NGOs working as midwives in Europe (with US CNM training)? If so, how difficult a path was it to be able to practice?

This is a great thread!!! So it seems that the easiest way for a US trained nurse to work in France is to first work in the UK. Can anyone say about how long one would have to work in the UK before having the documentation that France wants before letting one work there? Also--if any EU county will do, has anyone tried working first in Switzerland? Does Switzerland accept the US nursing degree?

How have y'all that have moved from an English-speaking environment to a non-English one learn all of the medical jargon in a new language? Did you use books, internet tutorials, tapes, etc? Any information on foreign language resources would be helpful, especially for learning medical French, Japanese, or German. Merci!

Hello, I'm a US student nurse who is interested in nurse-midwifery; I'm also interested in working in France if I ever finish going to school! My question: Has anyone ever worked in France or any other part of Europe as a US-trained midwife? What sort of hoops need to be jumped through for this to happen? Thanks!

STANDING WHENEVER A DOCTOR WALKED INTO THE UNIT??? Are you kidding me???

Quote: Your period serves a purpose; it washes pathogens from the body. You don't get that with a tampon. My thougths exactly...if it was needed to wash pathogens, why would the FDA have approved Seasonale, the drug that reduces the number of cycles to only 4 per year?

:Melody:

Apparently some people balk at the prospect of getting "only another bachelors" and would rather get a MSN after already having been through undergrad.

Congrats on your acceptance! :balloons: :balloons:

Unfortunately, this is true. But remember, DC is a fiefdom, so that is part of the reason that there is such confusion in the 'government' here. If DC were a state (as it should be, since all DC residents pay federal taxes without being represented in Congress, and are in essence governed by people they have no power to vote for), then there would be more money and more accountability like there is now. Probably.

Didn't know they had a 2nd degree program.