Natalie Roberg

Assisting students and graduate midwives with skills across pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatal spectrum

Feedback and appraisals with students

Neonatal Life Support and Basic Life Support trainer

• Employed sessionally to facilitate skill labs for undergraduate midwives, ensuring they are competent for practice as a midwife.
• Skills range from basic midwifery skills such as assessing a neonate through to catching a baby or a basic maternal well being evaluation.
• Other skills taught include venepuncture, midwifery observations and setting up a birth suite for an induction.
• Enhancing patient outcomes by providing knowledgeable education on procedures, medications and emergencies

• Assisting colleagues across all areas, especially junior and new staff to the hospital and educating in regard to WH and specific midwifery practice policies.
• Teaching and assessing BLS, NLS, Back for Life as well as other key competencies such as cannulation and suturing
• First Responder for codes and attend all emergencies in birthing.
• Clinically competent in all areas of midwifery care, including Level 3 RANZCOG.
• Designated In Charge as required.
• Recognised as “Star of the Week”or my outstanding performance.

• Worked with women across all areas of the pregnancy spectrum including intrapartum and postpartum.
• Advocated for women's choice with safe, up to date, evidence-based knowledge and practice.
• Worked in an independent capacity at homebirths and in community clinics.
• Attended over 80 births as autonomously in the home, making decisions without the back up of the hospital.
• Extra duties from August 2016 triaging women according to priority referrals, and taking part in the Feb/Mar 2017 Breastfeeding audit.
• Nominated for Midwife of the Year in 2017 at Western Health.

• Worked autonomously within the Australian College of Midwives Guidelines and in collaboration with Western Health policy and procedure across all areas of the maternity spectrum.
• In addition, to required duties undertook the “Baby and Security Audits"
• Promoted benefits of breastfeeding and offered education on proper positioning, latching and breast care.
• Met with mothers to design individualized birth plans in terms of health concerns, birthing desires and potential problems.

• Consolidated my undergraduate, including 8 week rotation in Caseload Care and continued my professional development, safe medication administration and practicing as per my registration with AHPRA.
• Basic skills I developed in this year included Vaginal Exams, inserting catheters, dispensing medications, cannulation, suturing, inserting Fetal Scalp Electrodes, as well as working across all areas of the hospital including postnatal, birth suite and antenatal clinic.