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Midwife
Bolton Foundation NHS Trust

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	Benash Midwife
00:07	My name’s Benash. I’m the specialist cultural liaison midwife.
00:10	They will know that you were the midwife, the support work, the cheerleader, the carer and their champion. You give them the confidence in themselves, in their body and their ability to birth and that is just a small part of being a midwife.
00:34	To be a midwife you need patience with yourself and patience with others. You also need to have really good communication skills. The people you’re caring for need to know what’s happening, need to understand, need to be able to make key decisions about themselves, their little one and their families according to the advice and guidance you and the other professionals within the team give.
01:07	I always said I was gonna go to university, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I read five prospectuses back to front and learnt about midwifery which I’d never heard about and never even considered. I wasn’t the most confident and I wasn’t the most academic, I struggled with certain aspects of learning. I later found out in university I had dyslexia, but the practical and the theoretical aspect were balanced cos in midwifery when you’re doing your training you do 50-50, you have to from year go straight into hospital and with mentorship and guidance you present and you start caring from get, the get-go.
01:59	As a midwife you have to do so many many many things so one of the things that you can do to start preparing for midwifery is try volunteering at a hospital. Have conversations with people who have recently had babies and understand and learn what they did, what their midwives did with them, what care they gave. So talking about these things and writing about these things is really important and write about them in your applications and talk about them in your interviews.
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“I wasn’t the most confident and I wasn’t the most academic, I struggled with certain aspects of learning.” Benash later found she had dyslexia. She decided to become a midwife after reading about the course and enjoyed the mix of practical and classroom learning.

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£38,480

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The UK average salary is £29,813

average weekly hours

There are 37.5 hours in the average working week

4% male

96% female

The UK workforce is 47% female and 53% male

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Description

? Registered community nurses provide general nursing care for the sick, injured and others in need of care, and assist medical doctors with their tasks in settings outside of acute hospitals, such as clinics, health centres or visits to patients’ homes.

Qualifications

Qualification as a nurse is via a diploma or degree course, both of which are provided by universities, or through an apprenticeship. Courses comprise both theoretical and practical work, including placements in hospital and community settings. Full time diploma courses last three years; degree courses last three or four years. Accelerated programmes are available to graduates with a health-related degree. Post-registration training is available to become a specialist practitioner in community nursing.

Tasks

Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services within a community care setting
Provides basic care and monitors patients' general health such as blood pressure or body temperature
Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment
Assists medical doctors in conducting examinations and other medical procedures
Manages own case load
Plays an educational role for patients and families, helping to develop rehabilitation routines and advising on how to care for their condition in everyday life, disease prevention and nutrition

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