Any Midwives who trained in mid to late 80's
 

I'll try and keep this short ..........

Qualified as RGN 1986 (3 years)

RGN for 1 year then....

Qualified as RM 1989 (18 months)

In those days there was no such thing (in Scotland anyhow) as a degree in nursing,it was called a Certificate !

Got myself registered with QNC without issues in 2008 as General nurse only pending receipt from Scotland of Midwifery training transcripts(it only took 6 months :eek:).Applied for Midwifery endorsement mid 2009 and after 9 months of utter crap communication and one committee hearing or another,my qualification was rejected in April 2010 due to a lack of theoretical content wtf.Anyhow I plodded on and decided not to pursue this further at that stage due to the pending disbandment of QNC.Now reading between the lines,those AHPRA people are making even more of a dogs dinner of applications than before.This makes me reluctant to submit again for fear of further rejection boo hoo.

I have now been in OZ for 4 months and although I have not been all -out job hunting,I am beginning to get the impression that I am unemployable and am feeling a tad rejected in my middle-age years:unsure:
It seems that I am a nomad because my experience is all in midwifery but here I am only registered as a general nurse thus far.Having no recent experience in any other field,my options are limited somewhat.At the moment I am thinking that maybe I could look for some short training courses to upskill a bit but on the Sunshine Coast,the options are limited.

Anyone else from the 80's feeling rejected ?