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Direct entry midwifery

Abstract:

The first group of Direct Entry midwifery students commenced study at Otago Polytechnic on 22 March 1992. On 3 December 1994 they will graduate - the first Bachelor of Midwifery graduates in New Zealand. The three years have flown by in many ways yet at times it has felt like a long, slow road. The course has been challenging for everyone involved, from students, to lecturers, to clinicians, to the students' families. It is not easy to make a major life change and become a student after being a mother, a partner, a worker and to try and meld all the many roles women have in their lives with something that becomes so all consuming - midwifery. It has been exciting to be involved with this course and to see where it would take us. The students have been remarkable for their commitment and energy and thirst for knowledge, and for the maturity, wisdom and life experience they all bring with them. I feel very proud and privileged to have been associated with them and to have been able to learn so much from them.

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direct entry midwifery, midwifery education, partnership, professional support