3rd year midwifer qaulifying in 7 months but unsure if i want to work

I finish my degree so soon and i am so overly anxious as the past 3 years have been the harded years of my life, although I have enjoyed placement sometimes, it has been very up and down.
the though of working for the NHS in a busy hospital makes meso stressed because I know I wont cope, and the jump from student to midwife will be hard when everything will be my responsibility.
i feel ive worked so hard to get to this point its expected that i go straight into work and thats it.
has anyone who has done midwifery done a career change, i have regrets of not going into events marketing as i feel i would of really enjoyed that.
what eles can i do with my degree thats NOT midwifery? i cant go into much with my degree straight away as alot of jobs want a years experience of being a midwife before you can specialise etc
if i tried to apply to apply to mareketing jobs, would they accept me with my degree
please help !!!!!!!!!! im so lost and confused, i chose to do midwifery when i was 18 and now i just have regrets, so close to finishing so i want to at least get my degree

Hi
There's always working in the community instead of hospital settings, when you are looking for jobs and applying for them look and see if there's anything for community midwifing ( GP practices)..
Don't give up on your career as a midwife okay as yes once you qualify you'll have more responsibilities than a student did but you will be supervised for about a year with your preceptorship so you'll have plenty of time to be more confident in doing the job,
I was the same when I qualified as a adult nurse but I was confident enough to go and become a qualified nurse and I am absolutely loving it...( I was at university for 4 years prior to doing adult nursing as I initially trained as a veterinary nurse but always wanted to be a adult nurse in the NHS so I went straight back to university after qualifying as a veterinary nurse) ,
Some Jobs you can get with a nursing and midwifery degree as a newly qualified one.... perhaps you can look at these but gain some experience working as a newly qualified midwife to build your confidence up before looking at other things.
Accident and Emergency. Working as an A&E nurse, the clue is in the name
Critical Care (ITU)
District/Community nursing
Oncology nursing
Practice nurse in a GP surgery
Diabetes nurse
Specialist epilepsy clinics
Community Learning Disability Nursing Teams
A NHS registered adult nurse

Hi thanks for your reply !!
unfortunately in midwifery it’s a rotational post☹️ I don’t get to pick what area I want to work so even if I did like community I can’t pick it ☹️ Scotland does rotational which is so annoying((
I do like the idea of doing breastfeeding/infant feeding but again you have to be qualified for a year before you specialise which is rubbish

Hi chestnut 3636
If you are a student midwife in Scotland then yes you'll probably have to work the ratational shifts - working in between community and maternity ward setting as part of the new contracts that most NHS Scotland health board put in place since around 2021/22.
But saying that there's sometimes Jobs advertising for either hospital or community ( separate positions) but not many. I think they brought this in to fill the Gap in the maternity ward setting after the situation during COVID when all the community ( home births arrangements - was suspended and transferred to the maternity wards because of ambulance's were diverted to cope with adult work etc) and the majority of the community midwives wouldn't work in the hospital and after that the ratational shifts came into play..... I have a contract that states that I have to work in both settings but I have not yet worked in the community since I took the job with this in my contract as always been in the maternity ward., it's possible that you might never do both but if so it's usually just to cover for holidays or sickness leave.
Believe me jumping from a student midwife to a qualified midwife is frightening at first but there's nothing to worry about it because you are under supervision for at least a year ( preceptorships) but you do things yourself. There's always a staff member you can call upon if you have to ask for assistance with anything so don't worry there okay.
What university are you doing your midwife training about ? I did mine at Edinburgh Napier.
NHS Scotland band 7 senior charge midwife.

Hi there thank you for the reply !!
I do love it but there is so much to remember, without my mentor I sometimes think, how do they actually remember everything! There’s so much paper work/documentaing/patient care to juggle and between that and all your patient(s) I just don’t even know how they do it.
I study at Edinburgh Napier too, the lecturers are amazing and they are a great support. But I just feel I am loosing myself so much in the degree I’m working/trying so hard to push though, the moment someone is the slightest bit hostile/rude I immediately just resent it even more.
I’m gonna try really hard to finish this year that is my goal, I just don’t know if once I get my degree I will apply for jobs because I’m just so overwhelmed and anxious, I do wish more hospitals had more supernumary as the difference this would make if I knew I had support for longer but I know I won’t and the minimum is about 2 weeks which I feel isn’t enough. I understand it’s just to short staffing etc but it’s just hard.
If I were to finish with my midwife degree, do you know of other pathways ? It makes me so gutted to have worked for 3 years and I feel abit of a failure as this is all I ever wanted to do but the more intense 3rd year gets I’m just not handling the pressure well

Hi there 🤗 🤗 🤗
No worries about the reply okay ☺️ ☺️ ☺️ 👍
Good you love it but yeah you have lots to remember as you said but truthfully you'll be fine.
I remember when I first qualified and never had my mentor beside me as she was on different days and shifts to me but occasionally had a shift together but very rarely, and you sort of panic because you are on your own now but just remember that you'll have the other fully qualified midwives alongside you constantly and if you are unsure about anything you get someone else for further advice until you feel confident enough. You will be under supervision for a minimum of one year so you have time to sort out what you have to do.
Yes paperwork can take up a lot of your time on any shift with the mums that you are looking after, I know what you mean how we all do it with joggling things but amazingly we somehow do as you probably experienced.
Yes I think the staff at Napier are second to none with the support they give the students as always there for them when required.
I would say to you unfortunately you sometime have to push yourself very hard to get through the hardest degree course in any nursing field but at the end of the day it's worth all of the grief and pain and sleepless days and nights that you sometimes have to have a worthwhile degree.
Talking about jobs - you should be given a list of upcoming newly qualified midwives jobs for Lothian health board ( yeah but you will hopefully get others vacancies for rest of NHS Scotland) As I did at the time I was almost qualified.... You should be notified about jobs around the last five months or so of your final year so you can apply and hopefully get interviews, then you'll be offered a job somewhere but it's on hold until you know that you have passed your final midwife exams in April/ May time ( I think you get results about mid June) then send your paperwork away to NMC for your registration pin, notify your potential employer you qualified and then you should be offered a temporary band 4 midwife position until you get your registration pin back from NMC and you arrange a start date to begin your newly qualified band 5 midwife job.
Year 3 is the worst one because you usually get left alone to get on with things yourself without supervision except when you're doing deliveries of babies. This is to prepare you for the real world ( better known as preparing for your newly qualified midwives job roles). Do not feel a failure because things like that will make you do mistakes etc and you will probably fail which you don't want to.
Remember that you can work in GP surgeries as midwife instead of hospitals, I would prefer hospitals over community as better time of for same pay.
Below are some examples of jobs you can do as a qualified midwife.....
midwifery jobs in scotland
Nursing and Midwifery. NHS Scotland. ...
Induction Of Labour QI Midwife. ...
211345 - Newly Qualified Practitioner - Midwifery. ...
Rotational Midwife-Maternity Services. ...
Staff Nurse - Neonatal. ...
Strengthen your profile. ...
Clinical Skills Facilitator - Paisley. ...
Maternity Coordinator - Clinical.

I think id enjoy most working in triage/postnatal, but even then I don’t get to chose and that’s what’s really off putting about the job. There’s nurses who don’t want to work in stressful areas like A&E or ICU and I just find it so unfair we aren’t able to chose, I really wouldn’t want to work in Labour ward so If I was given a job offer and the gave me Labour ward for my first 6 months I just know I would drop out or not accept it.
I’m looking at other options for this reasons I’m mainly continuing to get my degree but I just think my whole passion for it has gone, but I feel like an idiot because there is so little opportunity’s for me as a new graduate midwife as it’s not like any marketing jobs would take me as I have 0 experience
All things I wish I was more aware of before starting this intense degree, but I’m too far gone it in now and it would be so silly of me to drop out when I’m so close to finishing