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Sep. 9th, 2009 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishThe last joint RCM/INO conf before the INO changes to INMO falls once again in the middle of my placement. Request for the day and the day after off already submitted cos this year I'm bloody well going (it's in Cyavan, no way am I getting up at half four after getting back from Cyavan via Dubland.) Speakers are interesting, but then I would say that, half of them are my tutors or people I respect enormously.
"So why did you choose to train in Dublin?" I was asked yesterday after saying that I'm from Drawwda. Three years ago my main reason was "it's a proper university, not an institute of technology" as well as "my mammy did her general nursing training in the Lourdes, she still knows way too many people there and at my age I do not want unofficial reports on my progress going back to me ma." Now I'm delighted that I picked TCD cos I've been influenced by some utterly amazing people.
Most of my midwiffey superheroes are ones I see regularly or hear from via various places. One of the speakers on the day is Declan Devane, who cruelly abandoned us to take senior lecturer post in NUIG and is currently working on the report on the midwife led units in the Lourdes and Cavan. Hero. Another is Sally Millar, chair of the INO midwives section and independent midwife based mostly round Galway for clients but who pops over occasionally to talk to us (and examine my skills on cord prolapse. Oops.) Hero. Cecily Begley, chair of nursing and midwifery, I paraphrase her work shamelessly when I talk of what nonsense it is that 500ml blood loss during delivery is considered a post-partum haemorrhage when up to four times a year I give almost that much away to the blood bank people and I'm given a cup of tea and a pencil, not drugs to help my body cope with the loss. Was also a big player in getting my course started, without her work I might not be talking of all this now. Hero.
Ultimately, registration on the midwife division with An Bord Altranais is what I'm after with this whole education thing. But I'm honoured to have been influenced along the way by such wonderful people.
I love my job and I love where I'm learning how to do it. "It'll be worth it in the end" people say when I tell them of my Commute o' Doom. Nah, it's worth it already.
"So why did you choose to train in Dublin?" I was asked yesterday after saying that I'm from Drawwda. Three years ago my main reason was "it's a proper university, not an institute of technology" as well as "my mammy did her general nursing training in the Lourdes, she still knows way too many people there and at my age I do not want unofficial reports on my progress going back to me ma." Now I'm delighted that I picked TCD cos I've been influenced by some utterly amazing people.
Most of my midwiffey superheroes are ones I see regularly or hear from via various places. One of the speakers on the day is Declan Devane, who cruelly abandoned us to take senior lecturer post in NUIG and is currently working on the report on the midwife led units in the Lourdes and Cavan. Hero. Another is Sally Millar, chair of the INO midwives section and independent midwife based mostly round Galway for clients but who pops over occasionally to talk to us (and examine my skills on cord prolapse. Oops.) Hero. Cecily Begley, chair of nursing and midwifery, I paraphrase her work shamelessly when I talk of what nonsense it is that 500ml blood loss during delivery is considered a post-partum haemorrhage when up to four times a year I give almost that much away to the blood bank people and I'm given a cup of tea and a pencil, not drugs to help my body cope with the loss. Was also a big player in getting my course started, without her work I might not be talking of all this now. Hero.
Ultimately, registration on the midwife division with An Bord Altranais is what I'm after with this whole education thing. But I'm honoured to have been influenced along the way by such wonderful people.
I love my job and I love where I'm learning how to do it. "It'll be worth it in the end" people say when I tell them of my Commute o' Doom. Nah, it's worth it already.
