Nursing to midwifery

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So I’ve had my offer for adult nursing and understand that I’m not able to do a conversion to midwifery after I finish the degree however I am wondering if I’d be able to do it else where without doing an extra three years hope that make sense.

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normaw

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Original post by courtney27x

So I’ve had my offer for adult nursing and understand that I’m not able to do a conversion to midwifery after I finish the degree however I am wondering if I’d be able to do it else where without doing an extra three years hope that make sense.

Have you asked the unis you have offers from if you can change to midwifery now?

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Littleemma98

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Original post by courtney27x

So I’ve had my offer for adult nursing and understand that I’m not able to do a conversion to midwifery after I finish the degree however I am wondering if I’d be able to do it else where without doing an extra three years hope that make sense.

Hi

As a qualified registered adult nurse you can eventually go and do the conversion course for midwifery but you tend to need a few years of working on a ward to gain experience first after you qualified and then you can apply for the midwifery conversion course.

You'll also need to check that the university is running the midwifery conversion course as some universities are phrasing then out so check out whether they will still be doing them by the time you qualify and then apply for it as otherwise it's basically 3 years again back at university as a student and would you be able to get funding for this or have to pay it yourself ?? Is it worth doing it if you have to pay yourself for the course...

You can ask the university if it is possible to change your adult nursing course to midwifery if they haven't yet filled up the allocated places that they have available each year. Each university has only a limited amount of places every year for midwifery due to the intense training involved and also the numbers each year form's part of the local NHS trust qualified midwives required by them at the end of every year ( after the 3 years of being a student midwife)

You can work on maternity wards as a qualified registered adult nurse.

NHS registered adult nurse.

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courtney27x

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Original post by Littleemma98

Hi
As a qualified registered adult nurse you can eventually go and do the conversion course for midwifery but you tend to need a few years of working on a ward to gain experience first after you qualified and then you can apply for the midwifery conversion course.
You'll also need to check that the university is running the midwifery conversion course as some universities are phrasing then out so check out whether they will still be doing them by the time you qualify and then apply for it as otherwise it's basically 3 years again back at university as a student and would you be able to get funding for this or have to pay it yourself ?? Is it worth doing it if you have to pay yourself for the course...
You can ask the university if it is possible to change your adult nursing course to midwifery if they haven't yet filled up the allocated places that they have available each year. Each university has only a limited amount of places every year for midwifery due to the intense training involved and also the numbers each year form's part of the local NHS trust qualified midwives required by them at the end of every year ( after the 3 years of being a student midwife)
You can work on maternity wards as a qualified registered adult nurse.
NHS registered adult nurse.

thanks for replying, one uni does not offer the conversion after the adult nursing course but the other does so I’m conflicted on which one to choose as they have both offered me adult nursing as an alternative to midwifery. I’ve had conversations with people who say I could end up doing adult nursing and finding a passion within that it also opens the door to lots of opportunities etc. I guess my question would be if I went to the uni that doesn’t offer the conversion could I do a conversion elsewhere or do I have to do another 3 years 💀

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Littleemma98

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Original post by courtney27x

thanks for replying, one uni does not offer the conversion after the adult nursing course but the other does so I’m conflicted on which one to choose as they have both offered me adult nursing as an alternative to midwifery. I’ve had conversations with people who say I could end up doing adult nursing and finding a passion within that it also opens the door to lots of opportunities etc. I guess my question would be if I went to the uni that doesn’t offer the conversion could I do a conversion elsewhere or do I have to do another 3 years 💀

Hi Courtney 😊 😊
Thanks for the reply back and apologise for late response back as had time away for few days this last week.

If you are wanting to be a midwife then perhaps you should do your adult nursing degree first and when qualified get some experience behind you and then ask about doing the midwife conversion course ( what I understand about it is you go back to being a student for about 20 months and you lose your nursing registration until you complete your midwife conversion degree - this is to stop you from working as a nurse during your midwife coursework but you reapply for it before you complete your midwife course, this is do you will need to look into before you do it and think about it seriously if it is worth doing that), obviously the final decision is yours.
Unless you can get a place for midwifery without doing the adult nursing route first then adult nursing is just as good as you get paid the same money anyway plus more opportunities for promotion etc.

You could perhaps apply for a MCA ( maternity care assistant) that is around 2 years but you get paid while you are being trained ( only thing you do not do is delivery of babies but everything else you do) and then apply for midwifery at university as most MCA goes on and train as midwives after doing the MCA course first. It's something to think about as well....

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Tracey_W

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Original post by courtney27x

So I’ve had my offer for adult nursing and understand that I’m not able to do a conversion to midwifery after I finish the degree however I am wondering if I’d be able to do it else where without doing an extra three years hope that make sense.

Hi Courtney

Registered midwife,
Congratulations on your offer to study as a adult nurse, have you got the requirements for to do midwifery and if so could you perhaps try and go through UCAS clearance and see if there's anything available for midwifery.... If not then you should go ahead with doing adult nursing and look into possible changing from adult nursing to midwifery at the end of completing first year as you should get a opportunity to do that as after first year you will have to complete your adult nursing degree. Now on completion of your adult nursing degree you can apply for a job working on your local maternity unit as a adult nurse and gain as much experience with working on the maternity unit over the first year and a half ( then start thinking about applying for doing the midwifery top up degree conversion course which is about 18-20 months ) but the biggest drawback from going back to university for this is that you'll probably lose temporary your adult nursing registration as it's generally frozen until you almost complete your top up course and then you can reapply for it ( it's annoying for you as you can't work part-time as a nurse during this period - i would suggest that you look into all the options including if your adult nursing registration is temporary suspended so you can think whether or not it's worthwhile doing it.

The Westminster government is trying to stop nurses jumping over to midwifery because of the severe shortages of adult nurses in the UK, hence why they are trying to get universities and hospitals to stop running the midwifery top up degree conversion course and then if anyone wants to do midwifery they will have to do the whole three years again at university and whether or not you'll be funded for it again is the big question as you will have already been funded for adult nursing degree.

There's a lot to look into on this one Courtney 🙂.

As I said above you can work on maternity wards as a adult nurse as I have HCA, adult nurses and MCA & MCW working alongside myself on the maternity ward as they are a important part of the whole team.

NHS registered band 7 senior charge nurse midwife.

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