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Tina
With
all your skills and honesty you would be the ideal person to lead the way
for the BMid Student Collective around Australia, to be represented at
a National Assembly/Conference.
love Robyn
dear Tina
I congratulate not only on your belief but more
importantly that it leads you to act and I am cheered by it and the cohesion
of the BMid group!
I also have the same hope though my experiences
have jaded me
I still act and beleive that good things will
come not only to our profession but more importantly for the women, families
and community with whom and in which we work such that cohesion, a sense and
lived experience of community and acceptance of difference will
increase!!
Denise
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:56
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re Tina's
response to Denise
In a message dated 29/11/02 9:51:41 AM AUS Eastern
Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The reality is we will not get the profession together as a
whole
I understand many NZ fought and are still not taking
the opportunities of the changes there!
As one who has been on state
and national ACMI executives even those small gatherings of midwives under
specified goals can not be together!!
Hi Denise...thanks for your response...I concede you'll
never get one hundred percent concensus on any issue....but a sense of
collective action and responsibility in the professions and women's best
interests is all I think any of us ask for.....would you not agree?? I find
what you have said really sad and disappointing for midwifery. The lack of
unity within the profession as always been my issue with midwives...as a
consumer and now a midwife student....I think if you went back through the
ozmid archives...the bulk of my postings over the last few years has been
either directly or indirectly on this very issue.
...At the B Mid
Student Collective....we have developed a real sense of COLLECTIVE
responsibility for our profession....yes we are all individuals..each with
our own personal aspirations etc...we are a rich and diverse collective of
midwife students, aspiring midwives and our supporters...who have different
opinions, stands etc...yet what we have aimed to create is that sense of
collective responsibilty for who and what we are....I sensed along time ago
that this is what was needed in midwifery...the need for midwives to look
beyond their own little patch...and take in the bigger picture....sometimes
we need to sacrifice some personal gain for the "greater good"....My vision
in convening the Collective was to do just this....get us B Midders all
talking to each other from the very beginning...discussing things with each
other openly and honestly....thrashing out our differences...bringing
together our commonalities....but all within the context of a collective
responsibilty t! ! o the profession of midwifery and the women we
serve....it is working wonderfully...perhaps other collective members might
like to add their perceptions....but I can see that the new midwife comes to
her profession well informed, politicised and has a fundamental belief in
Collective action and responsibility not just to herself, the women, but to
her profession....
I sensed the beginnings of this collective
responsibility a while ago...in the basement of the RWH in
Melbourne.....where midwives and women gathered at a public forum to discuss
the development and implementation of the Bachelor Of Midwifery...yes
individuals had different personal and profession stances on this issue..but
look what progress has been made when a sense of Collective responsibility
for the profession is fostered and nutured....the ACMI B Mid task force is
another example of a collective of wonderful midwives, who put aside their
personal bias for the "greater good" of the profession...who could see that
they had a resoponsibility to ensure that midiwfery education in this
country refected both national and international standards....collective
action, and a sense of collective responsibility is powerful when it
happens....we need to build on all this good work to further develop and see
NMAP realised.
Thats all I was trying to say...
yours in
reforming midwifery
Tina Petttigrew.
Bachelor of Midwifery
Student
Victoria University
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