Midwife Mondays is a series of over 150 posts, written weekly over my three years training as a midwife, documenting the highs, lows, assessments and catches of my time as a Student Midwife.
Still can’t quite believe I’ve finished! I’m now sitting here in that awkward limbo between being a student and being a working midwife – waiting for my registration to go through before I can start my new job. As…
So I wanted to put this all in one post rather than in little bits throughout the past few months for a couple of reasons – firstly I didn’t want to write and share about interviews before I knew…
I can’t quite believe I’m able to say this, but I’ve finished – I’ve done all my training and I’m now officially a trained midwife – just waiting for my final degree classification and my registration now! I get…
Three years of training and last week was my last ever week as a student midwife! Eek! It was quite a bitty week really. I had three shifts, but as I wasn’t really priority as I’d already got my…
So for those of you who don’t know, in addition to completing the required practice hours on the course, achieving the necessary skills and passing all your modules, there are certain things you need to have done to meet…
Can’t believe I’m in the final few weeks now – really getting close to finishing now! I had two shifts last week – and on both I was pulled to the delivery unit to help out as the birth…
So in my last post I finished on a night shift. At the end of that night shift (technically Monday morning) we did my final placement grading ever! Eek! It’s always quite daunting doing placement gradings, but this one,…
The weeks just seem to be whizzing by at the moment, and with each one I’m ticking off more of the boxes I need to qualify. Definitely getting closer to finishing now; and every week there is something to…
Getting so close to the end of the course now; genuinely can’t quite believe it! When I started, everyone said it would go quickly and I don’t think I believed them – but it really has! Only a matter…
Week 147 in the world of this Student Midwife was a bit of crazy one…I seem to say that a lot but I guess that’s part of the world of midwifery! It’s quite a long post for this one…
