Kate Lolias

• Primary health care to women in the antenatal, postnatal period and newborn infants.
• Provide culturally appropriate care in an Indigenous health setting.
• Assist mothers with breastfeeding, self-care and postpartum healthcare.
• Provide healthcare information and educational resources to new parents.
• Emotional support to expecting mothers by answering questions and alleviating concerns.
• Participated in advanced practice training and worked alongside physicians.
• Performed low-intervention techniques to induce labor or relieve pain during labor.
• Performed antenatal and postnatal examinations.
• Checked general and mental health and overall comfort of mothers in maternal health appointments.
• Supporting mothers to design individualized birth plans in terms of health concerns, birthing desires and potential problems.
• Promoting benefits of breastfeeding and offering education on positioning, latching and breast care.
• Provide routine antenatal care for normal to high risk pregnancies in consultation with Obstetricians
• Primary Health Care in Indigenous Health Care setting

Antenatal care

Intrapartum care labour and delivery

Post partum care

Domiciliary Home visiting Midwife service

• Offered primary care to expecting mothers and newborn infants.
• Assisted mothers with breastfeeding, self-care and postpartum healthcare.
• Provided healthcare information and educational resources to new parents.
• Gave emotional support to expecting mothers by answering questions and alleviating concerns.
• Participated in advanced practice training and worked alongside physicians.
• Performed low-intervention techniques to induce labor or relieve pain during labor.
• Performed prenatal and postnatal examinations.
• Checked general and mental health and overall comfort of mothers in prenatal appointments.
• Watched vital signs, checked for comfort levels and monitored emotional states of mothers before, during and after labor.
• Promoted benefits of breastfeeding and offered education on proper positioning, latching and breast care.
• Assisted in a number of successful births and provided post-partum counselling for struggling families to increase happiness and health of newborns and mothers.

Graduate year rotating through Surgical, Medical and Paediatric wards

General Paediatrics 2004 - 2016

Acute care

General Nursing

Respiratory and tracheostomy care