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We Are Worth It
I wrote this blog in Feb 2022 in the midst of the pandemic while working many shifts in my hospitals COVID ward. Around that time my NSW colleagues had taken strike action due to serious concerns about the quality of care they were able to give. Unacceptable nurse:patient ratios and pay inequity were the major…
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Chapter 14. Team work , respect and kindness
I’m usually calm and professional at work (on the outside anyway) only losing my composure once, with a bully type colleague. The older you get, it’s easier to take these people on, call out the behaviour, never comfortable but important to find your voice when someone is taking the piss. Empathic , tolerant , stoic…
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Chapter 10. Hands Off The Baby
My casual midwifery job began on the postnatal/antenatal ward of a tertiary hospital. “Ah you’re a midwife , must be lovely cuddling babies all day!” That old chestnut. To set the record straight, newborn babies should always be with the women who birth them, in their arms, on their skin, not in the arms of…
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The Midwife/Nurse Hobbyfarmer 