Nursing and Midwifery
I know nursing and midwifery are two different professions. But I cant decide which to do.
I don’t want to be a nurse working on a ward looking after people, I know if I do nursing Ill go off into a specialist area (I know there will be jobs that Im not even aware of yet), I love working clinically, and I love working directly with women (I am obviously capable of working with men too)
I am torn between the two because I like the opportunities an NMC pin can provide me with, like going into Health visiting, working in dermatology, and the family nurse partnership programme, plus many more.
Can anyone please give me more of an insight into the degrees? Does one provide more opportunities than the other?
Thanks In Advance
I don’t want to be a nurse working on a ward looking after people, I know if I do nursing Ill go off into a specialist area (I know there will be jobs that Im not even aware of yet), I love working clinically, and I love working directly with women (I am obviously capable of working with men too)
I am torn between the two because I like the opportunities an NMC pin can provide me with, like going into Health visiting, working in dermatology, and the family nurse partnership programme, plus many more.
Can anyone please give me more of an insight into the degrees? Does one provide more opportunities than the other?
Thanks In Advance
Original post by SEM007
I know nursing and midwifery are two different professions. But I cant decide which to do.
I don’t want to be a nurse working on a ward looking after people, I know if I do nursing Ill go off into a specialist area (I know there will be jobs that Im not even aware of yet), I love working clinically, and I love working directly with women (I am obviously capable of working with men too)
I am torn between the two because I like the opportunities an NMC pin can provide me with, like going into Health visiting, working in dermatology, and the family nurse partnership programme, plus many more.
Can anyone please give me more of an insight into the degrees? Does one provide more opportunities than the other?
Thanks In Advance
I don’t want to be a nurse working on a ward looking after people, I know if I do nursing Ill go off into a specialist area (I know there will be jobs that Im not even aware of yet), I love working clinically, and I love working directly with women (I am obviously capable of working with men too)
I am torn between the two because I like the opportunities an NMC pin can provide me with, like going into Health visiting, working in dermatology, and the family nurse partnership programme, plus many more.
Can anyone please give me more of an insight into the degrees? Does one provide more opportunities than the other?
Thanks In Advance
Yeah adult nursing has a vast amount of different areas you can work in and you can train in a particular specialist area if you chose to - you have outpatient department, a&e, maxillofacial, orthopaedics, renal, ent, oncology, transplant areas, general surgical wards, day surgery, and many many more areas you can choose from.
Adult nursing is mixture of both men and women.
Better also for promotion through the career ladder ( climbing the pay scale band's but you take on lots and lots of more responsibilities). Majority of adult nurses stick at band 5 due to the more harder responsibilities.
So midwifery - you are dealing solely with the woman's pregnancy, how the woman's body changes to cope with pregnancy, then the C-section if required, natural births, dealing with handling the woman's health situation while you are dealing with the birth.
There's a lot of stuff you have to learn more about women being pregnant and giving birth compared to adult nursing side
Unfortunately there's not many opportunities come along for promotion in midwifery as vast majority of staff are band 5 with the odd few being band 6 charge midwife, band 7 is senior charge midwife and band 7 midwife then it's ward sister above that. It's due to the limited numbers of midwives availability compared to the millions of adult nurses.
I would probably recommend adult nursing to you if you want to work in a vast range of nursing.
You can also work in the maternity wards as a adult nurse as you will assist in doing everything apart from delivering a baby.
A NHS registered midwife
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