International Day of the Midwife

Happy International Day of the Midwife!!  What will you be doing in relation to midwifery and midwives today?

There are free seminars you can attend online:  International Day of the Midwife

You can say "thank you" to your midwife for assisting you in your pregnancy and birth.

You can join Team Midwife to help promote midwifery care.

Or you can be a midwifery student, and study your buns off :-)

Guess which one I am doing today?

(Oh, and it's also Cinco de Mayo -- have a margarita on me!)

No rest for the weary

It is soon that time again - time to start another school term.

When will this whole school thing ever end?? If someone knows the answer to this, please -- let me know!! I feel like I have been in school forever.

Looking back, here is a run down of the classes I have finished:

Bridge year:

Physical assessment
Communication
Statistics
Leadership
Theory and Research
Community Health
Community Health practicum

Year one of the Master's level:

Health Promotion
Pathophysiology
History of Midwifery
Nursing Theory
Decision Making (a.k.a. SOAP notes)
Research
Reproductive Physiology
Pharmacology
Community Assessment

Year two of the Master's level:
Antepartum Care (took it twice)
Primary Care
Intrapartum Care
Market Research
**now** Newborn/Postpartum Care
**now** Women's Health

*To be done in the near future**:

Year three of the Master's level:

Advanced Intrapartum Care
Advanced Newborn/Postpartum Care
Advanced Antepartum Care
Health Policy (this is the BIG birth center paper to write in this course)
Advanced Women's Health Care
Primary Care Skills
Nurse-midwifery Skills
Clinical 1
Clinical 2
Clinical 3

Year four of the Master's level:

Clinical 4
Practice comprehensive exam
Take comprehensive exam
Take boards

and

BE CERTIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!