Training To Be A Midwife In The 56'/60's?

[rosyposy]

Two of my friends are having a difference of opinion about this, one says that you had to qualify to be an SRN before you could begin training to be a midwife and the other says that you could just start training immediately, as I think you can do today by doing a midwifery degree. Can anyone clarify please as I can't find any info on the internet it and I told them AB would know :0)

[wendilla]

I did my nursing up to SRN in 1956 and you had to be SRN registered to take a midwife course.

[boxtops]

You are both right, rosy. If you are starting from scratch, you do the full degree course - if you are already a registered nurse, you can do a shorter course. It's all here http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/midwifery/training-to-be-a-midwife/

[rosyposy]

Thank you very much for that wendilla, exactly what I needed -knew I'd get the answer here :0)

[boxtops]

Sorry, misread the question. Yes in the past - I believe you had to undertake the RN qualification then move on to midwifery. That was in the days before degree nursing.

[Sqad]

Wendilla is correct.

[Peter Pedant]

Recollect - I am a little younger than W
that there were two courses - one shorter and more practical and needed less qualifications SEN
and SRN - longer, needing qualifications

and SRN before the other courses Midwives and RSCN registered sick children's nurse.

I remember theatre sister pointing to one SEN when I started 1986
and said: "that SEN could run these theatres standing on her head"
( and now she is a modern matron )

Nursing degrees really started with Project 2000.
nick named even by th consumers Reject 2000

[Sqad]

PP......are you saying that S.E N's could progress to Midwifery training?

[woofgang]

my sister went from nursery nurse to midwife without doing a any other kind of srn or sen in the middle, she qualified around 10 years ago. her only qualification was an nneb (nursery nurses examination board) she was working in a hospital at the time and did it on block release.

[woofgang]

sorry, misread thr question, yes direct access to midwifery training is new. in the 50's / 60's you would need to either be srn or convert your sen then do midwifery as an add on.

[Peter Pedant]

No they had to convert

There was a conversion course

The SEN - she who could run theatres and then eventually did
went through that route

I was adding colour to an otherwise bald narrative
triggered by the fight and in-fighting linked to the edict in Manchester that every nurse in a children's hospital had to be er RSCN .....

The service couldnt be run without the learners (!)

which presumably was the same in the Labour wards
in which case of course non-midwives were delivering pregnant women, under suitable supervision of course.

[Sqad]

Half of the posters have "misread the question."

\\\Training To Be A Midwife In The 56'/60's?\\\

[Peter Pedant]

SEN -> SRN was two years and two years

whereas SRN was straight in at three years ( I think )

BUT girls who were bone idle at skool - quite a few actually - could start nursing if they had the vocation...so it was a way in now closed .....

[Sqad]

PP...the question was about MIDWIVES.

[Baldric]

My OH trained as a Midwife in the 60s at UCH, she had no Nursing Qualifications and went straight into Midwifery training as a direct entrant.

[Peter Pedant]

No I didnt misread

i just answered discursively

[Peter Pedant]

Sqad - Baldric may be right you know

two species of midwife (!) pacing the Labour ward
those who had done SRN and those straight in .....

It was all so long ago .... 1978 for me

[Baldric]

Peter Pedant,
Mrs B. here, Mr B is correct, I was sat next to him as he typed, I do w what I did and when. You on the other hand sound as if you have frequently enjoyed copious amounts of Goodies off the Drug Trolley.
Back to Mr B.

[ummmm]

Lol Baldric....

[Sqad]

Mrs Baldric........O.K, then i stand corrected.

UCH eh?...Gower St I think........excellent hospital.

[Baldric]

^^^^
I do know what I did
not
I do w what I did