Career Essay: A Career Of A Midwifery

Career essay on midwifery
The word ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’ ,Midwives are experts in normal pregnancy and birth as they support a pregnant woman and their babies, their role is to prepare women for the delivery of her new born and support them before and during and after child birth and up to 28 days after the baby has been born.. Midwifes now provide services in a variety of settings in women’s homes, community health centres, local clinics, private obstetrician offices, gp surgeries and also in children centres.
The specific requirements, skills and grades
The academic requirements for the course a minimum are five GCSE at grade c and above (or equivalent) including maths and English. For a standard entry to year one a minimum of 240 UCAS tariff points from two or three A-levels passes, a science A- level preferred.
Other qualifications such as science or health based access courses 120 CATS points accepted, also candidates with Scottish qualifications, CertHE, Irish Leaving Certificate, and BTEC National Diploma in a health-related subject but must be recent within the last 5 years plus 5 GCSE Including maths and English.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has now made it an official requirement that Candidates studying nursing and midwifery, who have been invited for an interview will have to sit a Basic Literacy Assessment and Numeracy Assessment test which will take around 20 to 30 minutes each and also to start the course you must also have to take an enhances DBS check
There are many personal skills expected to be a midwife for example you need able to have a good observation skills, able to be patience, able to be non-judgemental, an ability to act on own initiative, to have an Interest in the physical, psychol...

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...y time over the three years leading up to the renewing their registration, in midwifery 450 hours is required.
Review
I have been to some opening evenings in some universities so I could have a clearer idea of the career in midwifery and how I could get a job after my graduation, I also found that university website are useful as it contains the academic requirements wanted for a candidate to pursue in this career and prospect career website helped me gain a lot information and understand my chosen career very well. The NHS website was very beneficial as I now understand the difference between the bands and how the pay system Agenda for change works.
Whilst writing this essay I felt that I could have used some midwifery books as I could get gain better information on the continuing profession development section as I couldn’t find much information on the internet.