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tohmika

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Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:10 pm

hi there i am 21 years of age a mother of 2 little girls. i have been searching for months to study my goal i want to be a midwife i just cant work out how to get there can you go from EN to do midwifery or not i am in perth so perth nurses would be great help thankyou

Bec74

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Oct 12, 2011, 11:23 pm

Hi Tohmika
I am currently studying my Dip of EN at Challenger TAFE Fremantle. One of our lecturers has said that yes, we can go from EN to midwifery - via a program at St John of God Subiaco. It is a seperate program you do after you have completed your EN. Sorry, I don't know anything else as I am not interested in midwifery - so didn't take much notice. I do know that it is very competitive to get into though and it takes a couple of years. Sorry, can't help anymore than that... Cheers Rebecca

Long_haul

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Oct 13, 2011, 09:34 pm

Hi Tohmika,

As Nursing and midwifery registration is national, you are able to take advice from those in other states and have it still apply.

You can use an EN diploma as a mature entry pathway into midwifery. However, midwifery is a very very hard degree to get into. It is easier to get into a Bachelor of Biomedicine, believe it or not! If you want to go the EN route, I would also recommend looking at tests which the universities likes students to sit as an additional boost to your ranking. Alternatively, you can do a nursing degree and then do a masters in midwifery or apply for graduate entry into a bach of midwifery. Some people I know try to do the sneaky switch, where they apply for a easy to get into health subject, do mostly electives, which apply to the bach of midwifery, get top grades in the first semester or first year, and then transfer their degree to midwifery and get RPL for those subjects they did.

I am trying to get into what is considered 'average entry' to get into- Nursing. Just to meet an average entry degree, I have undertaken the last year doing a bridging course at a university (these are free, and very highly regarded) and have just jammed a 12 month biology course into 7 weeks when I found out that it will help me even more.

Best of luck. It may take you a while to get into it, but once you are in that time where you have everything to back you up, so you know you will get in, it will all be worth it.

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