A Career in Nursing and Midwifery

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A Career in Nursing and Midwifery
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What is Nursing Midwifery?

• Diverse
• Challenging
• Rewarding
• Stimulating
• Satisfying
• Flexible

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Employment Opportunities

• Global shortage of nurses and midwives
• You can work in
• Perth
• Country
• Interstate
• Overseas

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Registered Nurse

• University Trained
• Graduate earns 47,428
• Can work in variety of areas
• Can specialise or be multi-skilled
• Many opportunities for promotion
• Diversity in roles education, research,
  management, clinical, policy, human resources

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General Nursing

• Initial qualification
• General Nurses work in hospitals, schools,
  community, and industry.
• Can work in many different areas.

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Some of these speciality areas are

• Paediatric (children)
• Peri-operative (operating theatres)
• Philosophy
• Plastic surgery
• Rehabilitation
• Remote area nursing
• Research
• Rural nursing
• Surgical nursing
• Wound management

• Aged care/gerontology
• Burns
• Cardiology (cardiac heart)
• Clinical nursing
• Community
• Continence
• Dementia
• Diabetes education
• Dialysis
• Domiciliary nursing
• Education (hospital or university based)
• Emergency

• Family health
• Infection control
• Intensive care
• Management
• Medical nursing
• Mental health
• Midwifery
• Neonatal intensive care (newborn babies)
• Nurse practitioner
• Occupational health
• Oncology (relating to cancer)

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Whats a Mental Health Nurse?

• A specialised branch of nursing that aims to
  provide care for people with mental illness or a
  mental health problem.
• Mental health nurses work in a variety of
  settings including
• General hospitals
• Specialised mental health hospitals or wards
• Emergency services
• Community mental health services
• Triage (telephone or face to face)
• Residential Services
• Prisons or Justice Systems (Forensics)
• Other areas including mine sites, sales,
  counselling.
• Rural and remote

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Whats a Midwife?

• The word midwife means with woman.
• Midwives give support, care and advice during
  pregnancy, labour and after the baby is born
  they also conduct births and provide care for the
  newborn baby.
• Midwives may work in a variety of settings such
  as clinics, hospitals, birthing centres or in the
  womans home.
• The midwifes role may also involve other aspects
  of womens health, sexual or reproductive health,
  lactation consultancy and childcare.

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Enrolled Nurse

• TAFE trained
• Graduate earns 37,570 (as of June 2006)
• Works under supervision of Registered Nurse
• Expanding role can specialise, give
  medications, get promoted

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What about shift work?

• You can make requests
• You can have days off during the week
• You can sleep in or go home early
• You can earn extra money. Eg 1st year RN working
  Sunday earns 37.70 per hour and 1st year EN
  working on a Sunday earns 33.27 per hour.
• You get extra holidays

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What subjects do I need to do?

• Registered Nursing and Midwifery
• Year 12 human biology, maths and English
• TER usually between 65-88
• Enrolled Nursing
• A pass in Year 12 English

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Where can I study Nursing?

• REGISTERED NURSE
• Curtin University of Technology
• Campus Bentley, Albany, Geraldton and
  Kalgoorlie
• www.nursingandmidwifery.curtin.edu.au
• Edith Cowan University
• Campus Joondalup and Bunbury
• www.snmpm.ecu.edu.au/
• Murdoch University
• Campus - Peel
•   www.nursing.murdoch.edu.au
• Notre Dame University
• Campus Fremantle and Broome
• www.nd.edu.au
• Univertsity of WA graduate masters degree
  commencing 2009
• www.uwa.edu.au

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Where can I study Nursing?

• ENROLLED NURSING
• TAFE WA Admissions Centre
• www.tafe.wa.gov.au
• Central TAFE Mt Lawley Campus
• www.central.wa.edu.au
• West Coast College of TAFE Joondalup Campus
• www.westcoast.wa.edu.au
• Challenger TAFE Fremantle Campus
• www.challengertafe.wa.edu.au
• Regional Centers
• Central West TAFE, Great Southern TAFE, Pilbara
  TAFE, South West TAFE, Goldfields Curtin VTEC,
  Notre Dame University Broom Campus.

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Where can I study Midwifery?

• Curtin University of Technology
• www.nursingandmidwifery.curtin.edu.au
• Edith Cowan University
• www.snmpm.ecu.edu.au/

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How do I Specialise?

• You can specialise in one or several areas during
  your career.
• Some areas require further study others require
  experience on the job.
• Currently must do postgraduate study to become a
  Mental Health Nurse.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate options available
  to become a midwife.

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Nursing and Midwifery, where will it take you?