Kylie McRae

• Work within the team at Southern nest, assisting to provide antenatal care and education to women and families throughout their pregnancy journey.
• Facilitate Iron infusions and IV fluids when required

• Venepuncture and TV ultrasounds
• Educating women about their IVF cycle and medications and how to store and administer.
• Interpreting blood results and communicating with IVF specialists regarding ongoing plans for women.
• Communicating ongoing plan to women.

• Casual position primarily in Delivery Suite caring for women through the intrapartum period.
• Caring for women and their partners through out elective caesarean sections, from operating theatre to recovery, encouraging skin to skin and initiating early Breastfeeding.

• Assist in the running of Assessment Clinics at BreastScreen
• Councel women in the early stages of diagnoses of breast cancer.
• Communicate with a multi disciplinary team including radiologists and breast surgeons - ensuring the focus on women centred care.

Working in all areas of Midwifery- antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal

• Casual position working with the COVID19 Vaccination Roll out , working as a First Aid Nurse

• Casual position working as a Registered Nurse in the COVID clinic
• Casual position working in all areas of midwifery .

• Working with a team of 5 midwives to provide holistic care and continuity of care to women and their families through the antenatal , intrapartum and postnatal period .

A permanent part time position in Birthing Unit and Day assessment Unit.

Responsibilities include:

• Holistic care for women during their labour and birth
• Educating women and/or their partners during their pregnancy, birth and post partum period
• Inserting IV cannulas when required
• Documenting all aspects of patient care
• Acting as a patient advocate
• Interpreting CTG's
• Providing emotional and moral support
• Assisting women with breastfeeding and initial postnatal care
• Administering medication
• Being in charge of a shift when allocated
• Liasing with allied health professionals
• Working in a team environment
• Abiding by regulations of Occupational Health and safety
• Supervision and assessment where required of student nurses, medical students and student midwives in Birthing unit and Day Assessment Unit
• Working closely with obstetric doctors in Day Assessment Unit when assessing women for post dates, gestational diabetes, cholestasis, and hypertension.
• Responsible for developing the birthing unit staff Roster over a 5 year period, accounting for appropriate staff skill mix and working closely with Birthing Unit MUM.
  

Coordination of maternal and child health, helping with programs aiming to to improve health outcomes for pregnant women and their babies. 

Responsibilities include:

• Venepuncture
• Educating women about medications and how to use them.
• interpreting blood results and phoning women with results
• Assisting with egg retrieval in OT.
• Working in a team environment
• Liasing with health care professionals.

Responsibilities include:

• Monitoring and coordinating patient flow and maintaining an awareness of the condition and progress of patients within the busy birthing unit
• Facilitating effective communication between midwifery staff, medical staff and other allied health professionals, through effective handover reports, ward meetings, maternity unit meetings, and written communication where appropriate
• Developing staff rosters
• Managing clinical incidents and complaints through the Incident Information Management System ( IIMS)
• Leasing with staffing and bed managers, and executive on call where appropriate

A casual position in Postnatal Ward and Birthing Unit. 

Responsibilities include:

• Care of the woman in the postnatal setting
• Working in a team environment
• Wholistic care of the woman during labour
• Abiding by the responsibilities of after hours, contacting after hours supervisor when necessary

A casual position in postnatal ward and occasionally birth suite.

Responsibilities include:

• Care of the woman in the postnatal setting
• Care of the woman intrapartum
• Assisting the woman with breastfeeding
• Administering medication
• Providing emotional and moral support

A casual position in postnatal ward

Responsibilities include:

• Care of the woman in the postnatal setting
• Assisting women with breastfeeding
• Administering medication
• Providing emotional and moral support

permanent part time in postnatal ward

Responsibilities include:

• Care of the woman in the postnatal setting
• Assisting women with breastfeeding
• Administering medication
• Providing emotional and moral support

Permanent part time on the Primary Health Midwifery Program

Responsibilities include:

• Sharing responsibility with a group of midwives to provide holistic care to women across the continuum of their pregnancy
• Antenatally- Providing assessment of metal growth and well being, monitoring mother's health, providing information and routine blood tests and referrals
• Birthing Unit- providing psychological and physical support to women and families in labour, as well as monitoring maternal and metal well being.
• Postnatally- Providing education to women and their families. Monitoring overall maternal and neonatal health
• Domiciliary Midwifery Program- Providing care to women and their babies at home for the first 6 days
• Parent education- Conducting parent education classes for women and support people

New Grad year at Liverpool Hospital through all areas of maternity.

Clinical aspect of Midwifery Training at Liverpool hospital in conjunction with University of Western Sydney

Fulltime position working in Respiratory, Male surgical, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Radiology and Cardiac Catheterisation

Responsibilities include:

• Administering medication
• IV care and administration
• Liasing with Doctors and other health care professionals
• Documentation of all aspects of patient care
• Acting as patient's advocate
• Involving other allied health professionals in patient care
• Providing emotional and moral support

Permanent part time position

Responsibilities include:

• Supervisor
• Customer service