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Skills: Blood Pressure
Taking blood pressure is an essential part of antenatal care. There are lots of resources about taking blood pressure. Some of my favourites include the British Hypertension Society, they have two...
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Organisation: Planning
Being organised is an essential part of being a great student midwife. To do this, I have printed out a simple year planner with all my holidays, exams, essay and due dates in. This allows me a good...
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Virtual International Day of the Midwife 2012
Virtual International day of the Midwife is a FREE 24hr on-line conference. the programme looks amazing with some great speakers from all over the world, including Lesley Page, Toni Harman and Lisa...
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Skills: Abdominal Palpation
This is an amazing resource for abdominal palpation. Palpation is one of my favourite skills, I love when the baby rolls around under my hands! I encourage the mother and family to palpate too, it’s...
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Skills: Blood Pressure
This video has some great hints and tips if you are struggling to take blood pressure. If you are having real trouble have a look at some of the step-by-step videos. I hated this skill, but once I...
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Delayed cord clamping: Settling the debate
Reblogged from Mark Sloan M.D.: Aristotle was on to something, way back in the B.C.'s, when he wrote approvingly of the midwifery practice of not cutting the cord until the placenta was delivered. He...
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Blog: Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart is an education facilitator at the Education Development Centre at Otago Polytechnic as well as organising Virtual International Day of the Midwife 2012. Sarah Stewart’s blog follows her...
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NZCOM Conference
Who’s going? I am!! Looking forward to it, the program looks amazing. For more information check out NZCOM.
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NZCOM Conference
Something the Otago student midwives did for the 2010 NZCOM Conference. Hope they do something for this year!!
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Back Up People!
what have I been up to this long weekend? I have been backing up my laptop and all my photos – TWICE – just to make sure Backing up your work needs to become part of your student routine. There...
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