Re: Direct entry? or already RGN?
I don't know if it is nationwide, or just at my uni, but they are stopping doing the post-reg course, which I think speaks volumes. Us direct entry peeps are not lesser beings. I think we are more focused on woman-centred care, maintaining normality and things like 'optimum hormonal balance' as opposed to 'coping with pain'. I don't want to offend anyone by saying this, it is merely a huge generalisation, cos I have worked with several fab nursey-midwives. But I do think that you can't 'unlearn' things that have been instilled in your head after years of being socialised as a nurse. But us direct entry students can learn the clinical skills with time, that a nurse can do. However, I do envy the knowledge that nurses have with regard to pathophysiology. This is definitely invaluable.
In my first year, one mentor actually told me that she thought we weren't as good as the nurses 'no offence'. No surprises that she was a nurse. I was outraged.
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 3rd year Student Midwife
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