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Dec. 12th, 2009 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishAnyone know what the story is with working in NI and living in ROI, for tax n other stuffs? Juuuust curious.
And as an explanation, going straight into MSc after this is really only a fallback plan for if I don't get a job. Would obviously prefer to work in the country that's paying to train me, but if our glorious leaders don't see that it's daft spending 75k on training someone who's just going to emigrate then I'd rather stay in full time education until I can set up my little group midwifery practice. Not a birth centre, hate that phrase, midwifery is not just about birth. I don't think I went into this job to stay working in baby factories, which is what the Big Three in Dublin are. The Rotunda, built 250 years ago; the Coombe, built as a temporary structure in the 50s/60s; and the Other One.
Yesterday's seminar with Mavis Kirkham was wonderful. I'd heard her speak before in Edinburgh, which I'd entirely forgotten about until I heard that Yorkshire accent again. I've quite missed hearing accents like that, or rather one in particular, but that's another wibble altogether. Stories of why midwives were struck off the register in the past were funny yet terrifying - being seen drunk (not on duty), having a baby out of wedlock (not on duty), slaughtering a pig (again, not on duty.)
There were some major players in Irish midwifery there yesterday. Three self-employed midwives (one kinda had to be there cos his PhD viva was straight afterwards.) Discussion didn't form the way the organiser (my wonderful supervisor, the amazing Jo Murphy-Lawless) had hoped it would go but the environment of having it in a lecture hall to accommodate the numbers meant that discussion and debate were not going to be easy.
We're still waiting on a draft of the forthcoming Nurses and Midwives Bill to be released. While, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
natural20, I'm now believing it's because Mary Harney eats all the pies, part of the reason is midwifery in Ireland isn't very well organised. Or rather, midwives aren't. We have major identity issues, being seen as the little sister to nursing, those who are self-employed are supervised by public health nurses who themselves might not have midwifery as a qualification (the requirement for PHNs to be RMs was dropped recently so they get a grand total of 8 weeks maternity placement during their training now, not enough to determine if my practice as a SECM is good.)
Until the not even drafted Bill becomes an Act, I'll be a nurse as far as this country is concerned. While my regulating body and union have changed their name to reflect that for the first time since 1957 there will be Irish-trained midwives who are not already nurses, in law I am a nurse. If we, as midwives, don't get our combined arses in gear and get organising ourselves, we'll always be nurses. And I had so hoped I wouldn't still be saying this after nearly 4 years.
And now, back to reading. Fully determined to take tomorrow mostly off, I'm going to have a bath later to relax and getting out of the house yesterday did an awful lot of good to my mental health even if I turned into an absolute idiot afterwards.
And as an explanation, going straight into MSc after this is really only a fallback plan for if I don't get a job. Would obviously prefer to work in the country that's paying to train me, but if our glorious leaders don't see that it's daft spending 75k on training someone who's just going to emigrate then I'd rather stay in full time education until I can set up my little group midwifery practice. Not a birth centre, hate that phrase, midwifery is not just about birth. I don't think I went into this job to stay working in baby factories, which is what the Big Three in Dublin are. The Rotunda, built 250 years ago; the Coombe, built as a temporary structure in the 50s/60s; and the Other One.
Yesterday's seminar with Mavis Kirkham was wonderful. I'd heard her speak before in Edinburgh, which I'd entirely forgotten about until I heard that Yorkshire accent again. I've quite missed hearing accents like that, or rather one in particular, but that's another wibble altogether. Stories of why midwives were struck off the register in the past were funny yet terrifying - being seen drunk (not on duty), having a baby out of wedlock (not on duty), slaughtering a pig (again, not on duty.)
There were some major players in Irish midwifery there yesterday. Three self-employed midwives (one kinda had to be there cos his PhD viva was straight afterwards.) Discussion didn't form the way the organiser (my wonderful supervisor, the amazing Jo Murphy-Lawless) had hoped it would go but the environment of having it in a lecture hall to accommodate the numbers meant that discussion and debate were not going to be easy.
We're still waiting on a draft of the forthcoming Nurses and Midwives Bill to be released. While, thanks to
natural20, I'm now believing it's because Mary Harney eats all the pies, part of the reason is midwifery in Ireland isn't very well organised. Or rather, midwives aren't. We have major identity issues, being seen as the little sister to nursing, those who are self-employed are supervised by public health nurses who themselves might not have midwifery as a qualification (the requirement for PHNs to be RMs was dropped recently so they get a grand total of 8 weeks maternity placement during their training now, not enough to determine if my practice as a SECM is good.)Until the not even drafted Bill becomes an Act, I'll be a nurse as far as this country is concerned. While my regulating body and union have changed their name to reflect that for the first time since 1957 there will be Irish-trained midwives who are not already nurses, in law I am a nurse. If we, as midwives, don't get our combined arses in gear and get organising ourselves, we'll always be nurses. And I had so hoped I wouldn't still be saying this after nearly 4 years.
And now, back to reading. Fully determined to take tomorrow mostly off, I'm going to have a bath later to relax and getting out of the house yesterday did an awful lot of good to my mental health even if I turned into an absolute idiot afterwards.
