Hi Kim,
We'd love to have you here!! Can't you convince your husband to sell up & buy a farm near here? (Haa Haa).
We have apparently had some applicants & they will be interviewed next week, so hopefully there will be 5 again soon.
cheers Carol
>From: "Kim Stead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
>To: <ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au>
>Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Problems With new Models
>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:33:04 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
>
>
>Oh Carol....
>
>That's so dissapointing to read!!! Personally, I'd love to work in your
>hospital and with your model of care but currently I commute from Maffra to
>LRH and find that distance plenty enough!
>
>It really is a worry like you say, that so much work has been done to lobby
>for this change, then to find that midwives are unable for whatever reasons.
>... to commit or at least consider all the benefits of caseload models and
>continuity of care! I am sure it is fear of the unknown and fear that 'we
>ll have no life'!
>
>Coming from NZ, I know how rewarding this model of care is!!! Enough
>rambling! Hoping you find some interest soon!
>
>Kiwi Kim
>
>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
>Date: 21/06/2005 1:26:32 p.m.
>To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
>Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Problems With new Models
>
>Dear Carol,
>
>
>
>Congratulations on your and your colleagues achievement in offering
>continuity of care to women in Warragul.
>
>
>
>I am sorry to hear you're having trouble recruiting a replacement for your
>colleague. The College has a free section on our website for advertising
>vacant positions, and we also have an e-bulletin list that goes to more than
>1,000 subscribers. I would be happy to advertise your position on both of
>these if you are still interested.
>
>
>
>I also wonder if you've considered contacting the universities in Victoria
>and elsewhere that are offering BMId programs. They may well be able to
>promote your service to recent graduates. There will also be new graduates
>emerging from the second intake of BMid students in only another 5 months -
>I'm sure you would be likely to attract some interest from one or more of
>such graduates (or students, if you have a capacity to wait).
>
>
>
>The College is also looking at ways at present that we can help to inform
>midwives about the benefits of working in the type of model you are
>providing. There seem to be a lot of fairly negative myths around about the
>realities of working this way which we are confident of being able to
>balance out with good information from midwives working this way already.
>The National Executive meeting in July will be considering some proposals in
>this area and I'll let you know after that. They won't provide an immediate
>solution to your problem, but they will at least help to address the bigger
>picture problem of encouraging and supporting more midwives to give caseload
>care a try, as you and your colleagues are doing.
>
>
>
>Kind regards and best wishes for your service,
>
>
>
>Barb.
>
>
>
>Dr Barbara Vernon
>Executive Officer
>Australian College of Midwives
>Ph +61 2 6230 7333
>Mob 0438 855 529
>
>'Midwifery: Pathways to Healthy Nations'
>27th Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives
>Brisbane Convention Centre, 24-28 July 2005
>www.midwives2005.com/index.shtml
>
>From: "Carol Van Lochem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 12 June 2005 5:39:20 PM
>To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
>Subject: [ozmidwifery] Problems With new Models
>Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
>
>Hi all, I have posted here from time to time, but mostly I'm a lurker.
> I work in a team midwifery model at Warragul, where we have lots of
>midwives who believe in continuity of care, support the women as central to
>the whole prossess and have a supportive obstetrician to back us up. Our
>problem is in recruiting midwives to work in our model. Nobody wants to do
>"all that on call".They "want to have a life". After all these years of
>fighting for this type of thing it seems there are not enough of us around
>to fill this role. Many support the model in principal, but don't see how
>they can fit it into their own lives.
>
>Our team started just 12 months ago. It is a modified case load, with 1
>night per week on call, and 1 weekend a month. We are "available" for our
>"own" women during the day. We provide midwife led care for up to 60 low
>risk women per year, and shared care for up to a further 60 "high risk"
>women who benefit most from having a known midwife with them in labour. We
>are meant to be 5, but have recently lost one, who would have rather worked
>as a team only, with no case load.
>
>To my knowledge there have been no applications for this position from with
>in existing staff, nor has there been a response to newspaper ads. It
>saddens me to think that this type of model will not be sustainable in the
>long term. Here we are in the position of having active finacial support
>from DHS after many years of lobbying for it, only to risk losing it all
>through lack of willing staff. This problem must be coming up for others in
>Victoria as caseload models are put forward in other regions.
>
>Any thoughts, suggestions, simmilar experiences? I am truely at my wits
>end. Sigh :(
>
>Thanks for listening
>Carol
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