Lisa points out,

<< as we've said before, in Australia, to nurse an infant just means to hold
 them on your lap. and nurses working in maternity hospitals are midwives, so
 it doesn't get so confusing.
 this is not meant as a criticism - but just a language thing. >>

Lisa, if nurses working in maternity hospitals and units are midwives, what
do you call nurses working in other areas -- such as medicine, surgery,
pediatrics, etc?  Are they not nurses?  Is what they do considered "nursing"
(as a profession), or something else?

Jan B -- in Wheaton who was too young when she lived in Australia to know
about these things.

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