General Nurse With Opportunity For Obstetrics Training

A pregnancy, childbirth, and the first moments with a newborn baby are special, but sometimes also exciting and unpredictable. It is precisely in those moments that you, as a nurse, make the difference. You guide mothers, babies, and families, offer appropriate care, and ensure peace and confidence. A field in which clinical insight, quick decision-making, and personal attention come together. At ZGT, you get the chance to further develop yourself as a general nurse within obstetrics. At our location in Almelo, you will work on both the maternity ward and the mother & child ward. You provide family-centered care during pregnancy, around the time of childbirth, and during the postpartum period. In doing so, you identify changes in the health situation, monitor the progress of the care process, and tailor the care to what the mother, child, and family need. You will become part of a dedicated and professional team of gynecologists, midwives, nurses, hostesses, and maternity nurses. Together, you provide specialist obstetric care at a secondary level, in an environment where approximately 2,000 births take place annually. No situation is the same. This requires good collaboration, thinking ahead, and acting carefully, even when the situation changes unexpectedly. Your training trajectory You start as a general nurse and will first work on the ward for six months. During this period, you will become acquainted with the specialty, gain practical experience, and already follow two EPAs (Entrustable Professional Activities) from the training to become an obstetric nurse. Do you successfully complete these two EPAs? Then you will get the green light to follow the rest of the training. The training is provided by Civo Zorgopleiders in Hengelo, starts in the autumn of 2027, and lasts over a year. At the start of the continuation of the training, you will transition to the position of specialist nurse in training. This gives you the chance to further deepen your nursing knowledge and develop step-by-step into an obstetric nurse.