The thing with casual work is you can just work at one hospital on bank and if they are short of staff will book you but can cancel you some places have a condition that they can move you to some other ward instead if you are not needed where booked.. Or you can work for an agency and go to different hospitals but can also get cancelled sometimes after you have arrived at hospital.
Some hospitals dont have agency work in birth suite just post natal.
Doing casual most likely you will only do birth suite if hospital allows it but mainly postnatal.
Depends on hospital and state how easy it is to get shifts.
Yeah you don't have to do IV's but honestly even if you don't like them its something you would get use to quickly. I don't do IV's. Ive tried a few times got a few missed a few. Obviously even without putting them in yourself you have to connect them, tape them, change lines etc but there is no blood and nothing to worry about. Inserting IVs is also something you might start with some experience not whilst your training.
Nurses and midwives often have something they can't handle. For me thats goolies. Make me heave or vomit everytime A bit embarrassing when you have to run at times.
As for shift work. Unfortunately you can't get out of it whilst your training. When your qualified you have more opportunities to say no to certain shifts and to arrange set shifts that suit your needs. Unless your in management or community health then you nearly always have a 7am start from a morning shift not 9-5. But every hospital is different and the bigger the hospital often they have more variety in start and finish times.
Working on a casual basis you have more flexibility (although no guaranteed work) you can refuse to do night duty and evenings and just work during the day.
How do you find placenta's looking through them for abnormalities, checking the vagina for tears, poo, vomit etc? If that doesn't worry you then I am sure you will be fine. Even with a weak stomach you can still be a midwife if thats the profession you want to do. Also some places do not take direct entry midwives. You actually have to become a registered nurse first then do midwifery. Thats another thing to consider. Do you want to do general nursing first in order to be a midwife. I would recommend doing both as then you have two qualifications and really it depends on where you live as there are not alot of universities who run the direct entry midwifery.
Thanks for that info Feeb, I would really want to be involved in the birth suite, I am also interested in antenatal and postnatal but wouldn't want to be always postnatal iykwim. So if I was only to work 2-3days I would maybe be able to do just days? Thanks for that though I guess for me I have always wanted to be a stay at home mum and we still want to have 2 more children but this is something I am very passionate about more than doing a job for the money, as in if I didnt do this then I may not work at all iykwim so it is a long term thing once the kids start school so I guess in saying that things could change too, but it is still great to get an idea, so not being guaranteed shifts would be ok. DH works 6-2 so it would be early starts that would be something to look into, how we would work it with the kids etc. If I only do a bACHELOR of Midwifery would they be able to send me to other wards??
It is pretty much iv's, sutures that I couldnt handle! I had gd that was insulin dependant with my 1st and I was ok with the needles, even though they aren't really a proper needle but so I think i would probably be ok doing syntocinon injections
Emmy, well I find placenta's AMAZING (lol in other settings that would sound a bit wierd but oh well!!) and I would be able to handle checkiong for tears and fine with the poo and vomit, have experience those things with my work as a doula. Griffith is starting a Bachelor of Midwifery next year that is just for midwifery not nursing, I wouldnt want to do the nursing, may sound strange but I have NO interest in nursing only midwifery
Yeah I know that feeling. I only did nursing to do midwifery as when I did it that was the only way you could do it. You wouldn't be sent to other wards except maternity related places like antenatal, postnatal, labour ward etc.
I love placentas too. I think there so amazing and so many people don't like the look of them. I love seeing the shape and where the cord is inserted and the cord length and thickness. So much variation in them. I think you would be fine and your stomach is obviously not that weak if you dont mind vomit and poo and blood lol.
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