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A Career in Nursing and Midwifery

A Career in Nursing and Midwifery. What is Nursing & Midwifery?. Diverse Challenging Rewarding Stimulating Satisfying Flexible. Employment Opportunities. Global shortage of nurses and midwives You can work in: Perth Country Interstate Overseas. Registered Nurse. University Trained

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A Career in Nursing and Midwifery

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  1. A Career in Nursing and Midwifery

  2. What is Nursing & Midwifery? • Diverse • Challenging • Rewarding • Stimulating • Satisfying • Flexible

  3. Employment Opportunities • Global shortage of nurses and midwives • You can work in: • Perth • Country • Interstate • Overseas

  4. 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

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

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

  7. What’s 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

  8. What’s 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 woman’s home. • The midwife’s role may also involve other aspects of women’s health, sexual or reproductive health, lactation consultancy and childcare.

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. Where can I study Midwifery? • Curtin University of Technology www.nursingandmidwifery.curtin.edu.au • Edith Cowan University www.snmpm.ecu.edu.au/

  15. 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.

  16. Nursing and Midwifery, where will it take you?

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