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What's the difference between a Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Nurse Midwife in terms of what they do? Is a WHCNP an RN with a certificate and a CNM a more advanced nurse or APRN with a Master's degree? I would assume that t...

I call to order a meeting of birth junkies (insert AA joke here). First of all, brief required reading. I wanted to start a list of resources both online and off for people who love all things birth. This list can include books, journals, organizatio...

'Mistrusted' male nurse wins sex bias case The original decision upheld the NHS stereotype that men are sexual predators.

Apologies, I wasn't trying to be inaccurate but quick. However, Karen is right but my last post was pretty inaccurate. I should have posted a news link. I did read some articles about his case. However, what you wrote is accurate. Thanks for the ...

Just an update but Andrew Moyhing has won his case on appeal. It's been a ruckus in the UK news. He won 550 pounds (about $900) in compensation which he declined because he just wanted the judgement.

Obviously this is done in the same vein as Nursing and Tattoos. After reading through that and the discussion at Disturb you to see a tongue pierced?, I was wondering how many "allnurses" had piercings. BTW, I don't have any and wouldn't consider d...

Hi, welcome janna; I'm a nursing student and currently certifying to be a doula. Here's two threads (not long) that convinced me to be a doula: https://allnurses.com/forums/f35/glorified-birth-junkies-139427.html https://allnurses.com/forums/f35/dou...

i wanted to post this to get feedback from nurses. i'm interested in what the "rebuttal" will be. i myself am a nursing student. i post this with expressed permission from the author. ____________________ [color=#202020]deep doula thoughts [color=#...

I haven't abandoned you :) I've been keeping up with the posts and there is some very good discussion and points. I feel I can't comment without schooling or experience.

Of course, I agree with you. Obviously there are several things to consider, but this makes for a robust healthy person, hopefully.

Yes, the media (news, especially) loves to portray us as a broken gender mostly by promoting us as sexual predators. The incidence of female sexual predators (which is rising) is handled very differently even in the courts.

:yelclap: Definitely an AMEN to that! The problem is we have different ideas on how to get to that solution. The author isn't being territorial, just questioning why things are done in the hospital as they are when her experience and research says t...

Wow, what an epiphany! :)

mitchsmom, when I mentioned that she must be looking at research, I meant that only for that post and not the whole article. Deb has spoken :) No more third person. I should tell you that that was my idea and obvious doing to try to carry out the d...

Part of it is what texas-rn-fnp wrote, but the majority of it unfortunately, is just the traditional stereotype. It's pretty accepted that male patients don't mind or even prefer female nurses (whether it's true or not) but the opposite is not true.

Thanks for all the response! I'm a little behind . . . "I don't teach one way to give birth...I educate and give them options." This is a verbatim accepted definition of doulas.

thanks, rninwch for the information and especially your experienced view.

Thanks Deb, you have a lot of good insight, as usual. Obviously, people have some convictions about this and that's good. I agree with SmilinBluEyes in that all people need to be responsible about their healthcare and question things, even routine pr...

Wow, many thanks for your great post, Deb. The trust "angle" hadn't occured to me but is certainly needed.

I emailed the author the responses, and here's what I got back: She also added that she would be willing to discuss this with anyone on her message board. You can PM me for the address. She said, "and any and all comments are welcome!! With open ar...

Vanrn, thanks for the insult. I was hoping we could have a healthy discussion without resorting to name-calling and sterotyping.

Thanks for the feedback, rpbear. Although I can't speak for this woman, I know doulas love nurses that support them and the mother. These nurses are usually highly sought after. They don't have a problem with nurses or nursing (unless they needles...

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Thanks, ThunderWolf for the timeline. I just wish someone would write a book about this.

Excellent article! Thanks for the thread. Well, if you want to see the effects of government on an industry, then look no further than the airline industry. True competition is the only thing that is going to help. In the short term, healthcare wo...