Support student nurses to become Midwives Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/support-student-nurses-to-become-midwives.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:50 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mrs Rebecca Gualdi [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8918085?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:37:09 UTC 8918085 Karen Lewis [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8446804?utm_medium=rss How typical - change the goal posts mid game. No wonder Newcastle has such a bad name....

]]> Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:46:13 UTC 8446804 Mrs Lyndal Turbit [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8207966?utm_medium=rss Please support us to fulfil our dream to become a midwife. I started this course with the understanding that I could do the Diploma to become a Midwife when I finished. Now that is gone and I cannot afford the time to complete a Bachelor degree on top of what I have already done.

]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:15:16 UTC 8207966 Mr Bay Marshall [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7992339?utm_medium=rss Australia needs to value all forms of Education.
Nurses who are willing and keen to add to their knowledge are to be valued and encouraged.

]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:17:27 UTC 7992339 Mrs Belinda Mott [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7922462?utm_medium=rss Please let these students have a fair go. It isn't enough that their course is cancelled, NSW Health has to block them as well!

]]> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:36:58 UTC 7922462 Ms Amanda Butters [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7857803?utm_medium=rss Let em in I say! Let em in! How rude of you to change it all at the last minute!

]]> Fri, 4 Jun 2010 06:36:41 UTC 7857803 Mrs Genevieve Sinclair [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7704206?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 May 2010 08:12:58 UTC 7704206 miss Ashleigh Dolton [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7702276?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 May 2010 04:12:03 UTC 7702276 Miss Anonymous [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7677935?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 May 2010 02:16:50 UTC 7677935 Miss Anonymous [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7660675?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 05:30:18 UTC 7660675 Ms Alison Vidler [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7652945?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 04:18:22 UTC 7652945 Ms Heidi Kimball-Wellington [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7652364?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 02:35:47 UTC 7652364 mrs genevieve sinclair [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7652258?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 02:17:36 UTC 7652258 David Conroy [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7652152?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2010 01:56:06 UTC 7652152 Shane Bull [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7650378?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 May 2010 10:57:42 UTC 7650378 Jenelle Bateman [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7623011?utm_medium=rss Why do you have to make it so hard? No wonder there aren't enough midwives!

]]> Fri, 14 May 2010 05:17:34 UTC 7623011 Cameron Sargent [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7621013?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 May 2010 03:14:03 UTC 7621013 Elliott Sargent [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7621008?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 May 2010 03:13:38 UTC 7621008 Miss Hayley Sargent [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7621000?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 May 2010 03:13:11 UTC 7621000 Miss Jillian Royds [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7619007?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 May 2010 10:15:14 UTC 7619007 Ms Sharron Winter [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7611666?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 May 2010 02:17:58 UTC 7611666 Alison Loader [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7605337?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 May 2010 02:46:51 UTC 7605337 Miss Brooke Littlewood [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7605200?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 May 2010 02:25:29 UTC 7605200 Miss Nicole Anschau [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7604160?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 11:10:27 UTC 7604160 Kelly Marten [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7604089?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 10:56:21 UTC 7604089 ms Jo Davis [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7603936?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 10:33:33 UTC 7603936 Richard Anderson [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7603867?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 10:23:22 UTC 7603867 Carol Anderson [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7603835?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 10:18:02 UTC 7603835 Miss lauren den Hartog [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7603455?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 May 2010 09:22:10 UTC 7603455 Ms Sally Bloomfield [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7573813?utm_medium=rss stupid idea....just like nsw health really. they don't care what they do, as long as they get their $$$

]]> Tue, 11 May 2010 12:11:18 UTC 7573813 Miss rahni hayes [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7573363?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 10:09:15 UTC 7573363 Ms. Caitlin O'Brien [Signature #87] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7571268?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 04:29:44 UTC 7571268 Ms Alexandra Kennedy [Signature #86] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7566943?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 09:17:25 UTC 7566943 Anonymous [Signature #85] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7565398?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 07:19:40 UTC 7565398 Mrs Jodie Davies [Signature #84] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7564057?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 05:23:14 UTC 7564057 Miss Alana Hayes [Signature #83] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7562969?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 03:45:08 UTC 7562969 Ms Suzanne Asquith [Signature #82] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7562583?utm_medium=rss As a second year nursing student I think this is one of the most rediculous things I have heard.
I offer my full support to this cause, as a fellow student I hope the Uni has some sense and my peers gets some satisfaction

]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 03:15:46 UTC 7562583 Miss Jessica Flett [Signature #81] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7561739?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 02:25:35 UTC 7561739 miss heidi beavis [Signature #80] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7561207?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 01:26:57 UTC 7561207 Miss Ilona Haseltine [Signature #79] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7561113?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2010 01:12:42 UTC 7561113 Miss Tereece Ryan [Signature #78] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7559955?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 May 2010 10:22:39 UTC 7559955 Jarrod Glover [Signature #77] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7558643?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 May 2010 09:16:59 UTC 7558643 Mr Andrew Parker [Signature #76] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7554049?utm_medium=rss Oh dear, bureaucracy strikes again! When will our health system be run by people who actually have a clue, instead of penny-pinching public servants with nothing better to do than change the rules and call it progress? If you consider midwifery so different to nursing, why on earth make people do a year of nursing first? Doesn't make sense to me.

]]> Sun, 9 May 2010 06:38:40 UTC 7554049 Miss Erin Miller [Signature #75] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7554001?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 May 2010 06:23:14 UTC 7554001 Lisa Watson [Signature #74] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7552551?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 May 2010 08:29:57 UTC 7552551 Ms Ashley Indian [Signature #73] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7548412?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 May 2010 05:01:27 UTC 7548412 Me Bruno Antunes [Signature #72] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7547303?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 May 2010 01:39:58 UTC 7547303 Ms Anonymous [Signature #71] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7547226?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 May 2010 01:30:42 UTC 7547226 Miss Jenna Gough [Signature #70] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7547131?utm_medium=rss This is absolutely unfair! My five year career plan included graduating after 3 hard years at uni (B of Nursing Degree) then pursuing a Dip of Midi to commence in 2011 and now I find out that I have to wait until June 2012....here I was thinking that combining the 2 degrees would be beneficial to the health care sector, only now I feel I am being repremanded for it. Shame, shame, shame!!!

]]> Sat, 8 May 2010 12:58:01 UTC 7547131 Mrs Sheree Collins [Signature #69] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7547086?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 May 2010 12:39:51 UTC 7547086 Mr Matt McBrien [Signature #68] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7533420?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 May 2010 06:13:53 UTC 7533420 Mrs Christie Birch [Signature #67] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7533389?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 May 2010 06:08:03 UTC 7533389 Joe Pengally [Signature #66] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7518448?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 08:30:20 UTC 7518448 Mrs Naomi Bull [Signature #65] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7510566?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 May 2010 06:09:10 UTC 7510566 Anonymous [Signature #64] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7509087?utm_medium=rss Why make it so hard? If they want to do it, why stop them?

]]> Mon, 3 May 2010 11:10:11 UTC 7509087 mr Anonymous [Signature #63] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7505721?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 01:28:19 UTC 7505721 Ms Cassie Kirwin [Signature #62] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7503638?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 07:58:39 UTC 7503638 Mr Anonymous [Signature #61] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7502860?utm_medium=rss This is a shortsighted decision that will disadvantage the students and the public.

]]> Mon, 3 May 2010 05:08:21 UTC 7502860 ms Emmaleigh Clarke [Signature #60] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7502603?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 May 2010 04:10:28 UTC 7502603 Mr Dennis O'Meara [Signature #59] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7494871?utm_medium=rss Oh look - they moved the goalposts halfway through the game. How unfair.

]]> Sun, 2 May 2010 01:22:47 UTC 7494871 Mr Craig O'Meara [Signature #58] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7494846?utm_medium=rss What a strange turn of events - I thought we needed more midwives? Shouldn't we be encouraging them?

]]> Sun, 2 May 2010 01:16:12 UTC 7494846 Ms Karen O'Meara [Signature #57] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7494450?utm_medium=rss Fair go people! What are you trying to prove anyway? That you can push students around? They say there's such a shortage of health staff yet it's so difficult to get your education! How much more stupid can it get?

]]> Sat, 1 May 2010 11:07:28 UTC 7494450 Mrs Anne Austin [Signature #56] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7493257?utm_medium=rss If the system is changed it should not affect those who are just finishing. It would be better to affect those who are about to enrol, so there choice is made at the begining.

]]> Sat, 1 May 2010 06:44:43 UTC 7493257 Anonymous [Signature #55] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7487052?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 May 2010 02:24:10 UTC 7487052 Miss Jessica Niven [Signature #54] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7487046?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 May 2010 02:23:11 UTC 7487046 Mrs Dennie Hardie [Signature #53] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7479340?utm_medium=rss I am a midwife working in the public system and there is a chronic shortage of registered midwives in NSW. The average age of midwives currently working in this state is about 47years. Why then make it more difficult for motivated nurses to commence their midwifery studies?

]]> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:43:20 UTC 7479340 Mrs Joanne Crisp [Signature #52] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7479102?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:01:37 UTC 7479102 andrew hennell [Signature #51] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7478651?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:30:54 UTC 7478651 Ms Laura Barwick [Signature #50] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7478022?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:17:03 UTC 7478022 Ms Sally Field-Leal [Signature #49] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7477936?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:54:43 UTC 7477936 Miss Emma Clifton [Signature #48] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7477585?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:41:05 UTC 7477585 Mr Murray Hambrook [Signature #47] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7476100?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:34:03 UTC 7476100 Mrs Tamsin Hambrook [Signature #46] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7476096?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:33:26 UTC 7476096 Shauna Haipola [Signature #45] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7476003?utm_medium=rss Please allow these students to continue their training. There is a serious deficit of trained healthcare providers in the ACT, and restricting access to midwives will lead to serious consequences to maternal and child health.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:17:44 UTC 7476003 Miss Kristie-lee Burt [Signature #44] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475916?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:02:56 UTC 7475916 Anonymous [Signature #43] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475877?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:56:05 UTC 7475877 Mrs Patricia Stuart [Signature #42] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475315?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:16:47 UTC 7475315 Mrs Rebecca Carpenter [Signature #41] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7475277?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:11:23 UTC 7475277 MRS LESLEY VIDLER [Signature #40] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7470423?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:46:18 UTC 7470423 Miss Amanda Dickerson [Signature #39] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7468028?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:51:32 UTC 7468028 Ms Natalie Fisher [Signature #38] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467533?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:44:35 UTC 7467533 Nicole Frank [Signature #37] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467445?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:33:39 UTC 7467445 Ms Ashleigh Caird [Signature #36] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7467129?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:44:45 UTC 7467129 Anonymous [Signature #35] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466788?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:44:27 UTC 7466788 Mrs Jennifer Andrews [Signature #34] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466725?utm_medium=rss I wonder who in their right mind would even be nurse for the pay and condtions they have.
Why make it even harder for those who care.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:33:25 UTC 7466725 sharon adams [Signature #33] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466715?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:31:53 UTC 7466715 Kirsten Baker [Signature #32] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466602?utm_medium=rss We need more midwives, please don't make this harder than it already is.

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:13:15 UTC 7466602 mrs Kate O'Connor [Signature #31] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466521?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:58:28 UTC 7466521 Ms Lisa Crooks [Signature #30] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7466082?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:16:05 UTC 7466082 Ms Line Thye [Signature #29] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465926?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:37:14 UTC 7465926 Ms Tori Rath [Signature #28] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465743?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:57:07 UTC 7465743 Ms Fiona Findlay [Signature #27] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465718?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:51:47 UTC 7465718 Mr Adam Greaves [Signature #26] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465680?utm_medium=rss Nursing/midwifery students need a fair go and encouragement - not hurdles in their path.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:40:58 UTC 7465680 Ms Melanie Porter [Signature #25] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465674?utm_medium=rss I am really disheartened by this. In an era where health professionals are in short supply, shouldn't we be doing everything possible to encourage students? How can NSW Health's already appalling budget be helped by this? Forcing people to do something they don't want to do - and then they will be on a higher rate of pay if and when they are accepted into the student program! I can only hope these students won't give up. We need passionate people like them to improve our health system.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:39:31 UTC 7465674 Ms Suzanne Mitchell [Signature #24] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7465614?utm_medium=rss Unbelievable. As if cancelling the course wasn't enough, now you can't apply elsewhere either. Typical beaurocrats! How much red tape do we need?! Come on people, fair go!

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:25:30 UTC 7465614 Miss Kate O'Bree [Signature #23] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7458351?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:49:00 UTC 7458351 Ms Michelle Cole [Signature #22] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7457798?utm_medium=rss The current situation unfairly disadvantages any nursing student who is about to complete a Bachelor of Nursing and who wants to go on to be a Midwife. They have been completely sidelined and now have to fight for their right to become a midwife in the same timeframe that other nurses have had in the past or will have in the future. I do not want to be a midwife but support my fellow students in their fight for justice in this matter. Do not sideline these gifted nurses!

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:32:07 UTC 7457798 Mrs Samantha Hassall [Signature #21] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450721?utm_medium=rss This new system is ridiculously unfair with little consultation and information being disseminated. Very disappointing and stressful :-(

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:41:28 UTC 7450721 Ms Jenna Brookfield [Signature #20] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450420?utm_medium=rss I can't believe this decision - typical of the NSW Department of Health. And to keep it all a secret from the students was even worse - shame on you all!

]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:59:51 UTC 7450420 mrs Amanda Roots [Signature #19] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7450225?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:43:46 UTC 7450225