Sarah McGlinchey
CHAPEL HILL,QLD
Summary
Accomplished Senior Registered Nurse and Midwife with experience in Emergency nursing, Birth Suite Labor, ante-and post-partum care delivery. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, and Masters in Midwifery. Supportive, compassionate woman-centred care. Excellent communication, verbal and written. Provide a consistently high level of holistic care to women and their families.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
REGISTERED MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH Ipswich Hospital
11.2021 - Current
- Birth Suite & Maternity Assessment Unit
- Offered primary care to mothers and newborn infants.
- Assisted mothers with breastfeeding, self-care and immediate postpartum healthcare.
- Provided labor and delivery care for women.
- Performed prenatal and postnatal examinations.
- Triage pregnant women.
CLINICAL MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH
07.2018 - 09.2021
- Team leader of Hub for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women in Logan
- Provided expert level midwifery care across the spectrum from 12 weeks antenatal through to 6 weeks postpartum for 4 CALD women per month
- On-call for births and emergency assessments
- Ordered routine and emergency blood tests, ultrasounds and reviews, in collaboration with the Hub obstetric team
- Clinical coach for midwifery students, grads, and junior midwives in the team
- Triaged new referrals; managing the allocation of women within the midwifery team to ensure caseloads were beneficial for the midwife and the women.
- Team support
- Worked alongside interpreters in all clinical settings
- Liaised with community refugee support organisations to ensure the CALD women and families had 'wrap around' support.
SENIOR MIDWIFE
WHANGANUI DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD
01.2016 - 07.2018
- Senior Midwife inpatient antenatal, labour, and birth and postnatal care
- New Zealand College of Midwives Certified Midwifery Mentor of first-year graduates
- T3 PROMPT Instructor
- NZ Certified Newborn Life Support instructor
ClLINICAL MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH BEAUDESERT HOSPITAL
02.2014 - 01.2016
- Senior Registered Nurse in a small rural maternity unit.
- Clinically, provided expert level care to antenatal, labour and birth, and postnatal women
- Queensland Health Working Party for the state-wide guideline for 2015 Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance (as Sarah Miller)
- Developed and authored several local policies and guidelines for the unit
- Shift coordinator, managing staff and patient movements
- Mentor and preceptor to students, graduates, and junior midwives
- Acted up in the Midwifery Unit Managers role to cover leave
- T3 PROMPT instructor
- Scope of practice also included providing nursing care on the general ward and in the emergency department as required
CLINICAL MIDWIFE
RAMSAY HEALTH, GREENSLOPES HOSPITAL
02.2013 - 01.2014
- Senior clinical midwife at Private Maternity Unit.
- Providing care predominantly in labor & delivery, also cared for antenatal and postnatal inpatients.
- Held the Education portfolio, providing support and education for midwives.
CLINICAL MIDWIFE SPECIALIST
BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES
01.2009 - 01.2013
- Developed and consolidated skills in labor & delivery, antenatal, postnatal, and Special Care Nursery
- Rotated through all areas, including the Special Care Nursery, however, spent most of the time in labor & delivery
- Shift coordinator regularly, managing staff allocation across the entire unit, according to patient acuity, and leading emergencies
- Preceptor for midwifery students and graduates, often being allocated those students who needed more support in the clinical areas
REGISTERED NURSE, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Position on a twelve-month contract.
- Provided emergency nursing care, predominantly to categories 2-4 level patients.
- Included all age groups, including paediatric.
- Helped to refine nursing assessment skills, cannulation and venepuncture skills, ECG skills, emotional support of patients and their families in stressful situations.
REGISTERED MIDWIFE
LOGAN HOSPITAL, QUEENSLAND HEALTH
02.2005 - 01.2009
- Initially employed as a registered nurse/student midwife, and was then employed as a graduate midwife in 2006.
- Logan Hospital consolidated midwifery training and helped to develop into a competent midwifery practitioner.
- Rotated through birth suite, postnatal, inpatient antenatal care, special care nursery, as well as a year in the antenatal clinic and community midwifery service, visiting postnatal women in their homes.
Education
MASTER OF MIDWIFERY - Midwifery
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Brisbane, QLD2005
BACHELOR OF NURSING -
MANAWATU POLYTECHNIC (UCOL)
Palmerston North, New Zealand1998
Skills
- Critical thinking
- Self-motivated professional with excellent work ethic
- Organisation and Time management
- Leadership, Teamwork and team building
- Cultural awareness
- Interpersonal Communication
- Training & Development
- Flexible & Adaptable
- EMR / EHR
- Strong clinical judgment
Additional Information
- Expert level antenatal assessment, including recognition of high risk women, management and referral according to the ACM and RANZCOG Clinical Guidelines
- Experience with antenatal conditions including pre eclampsia, diabetes and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy,
- Intrapartum assessments, including abdominal palpation & vaginal examinations, artificial rupture of membranes
- Expert level venepuncture and cannulation
- Perineal suturing
- Fetal scalp electrode application
- Speculum examination
- Cooks catheter insertion and management
- Fetal surveillance
- Epidural preparation, assistance and management, including PCEA
- Urinary catheters, insertion and care.
- IV therapy and pump management
- Newborn resuscitation
- Obstetric emergency management
- Caesarean section preparation, care and receiving baby
- Breastfeeding support and trouble-shooting
- Family planning and contraception care
Affiliations
- AHPRA nursing and midwifery registration
- Member of the QNMU
Certification
- NeoResus
- BLS
- T3 (PRactical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) Instructor (2014, 2017)
- RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance Certificate
- Newborn Life Support Instructor (NZ 2017-2018)
- Certificate in Newborn Assessment (NZ 2016)
- Certificate in Obstetric Pharmacology (NZ 2016)
Timeline
REGISTERED MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH Ipswich Hospital
11.2021 - Current
CLINICAL MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH
07.2018 - 09.2021
SENIOR MIDWIFE
WHANGANUI DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD
01.2016 - 07.2018
ClLINICAL MIDWIFE
QUEENSLAND HEALTH BEAUDESERT HOSPITAL
02.2014 - 01.2016
CLINICAL MIDWIFE
RAMSAY HEALTH, GREENSLOPES HOSPITAL
02.2013 - 01.2014
REGISTERED NURSE, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES
01.2010 - 01.2011
CLINICAL MIDWIFE SPECIALIST
BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES
01.2009 - 01.2013
REGISTERED MIDWIFE
LOGAN HOSPITAL, QUEENSLAND HEALTH
02.2005 - 01.2009
MASTER OF MIDWIFERY - Midwifery
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
BACHELOR OF NURSING -
MANAWATU POLYTECHNIC (UCOL)
- NeoResus
- BLS
- T3 (PRactical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) Instructor (2014, 2017)
- RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance Certificate
- Newborn Life Support Instructor (NZ 2017-2018)
- Certificate in Newborn Assessment (NZ 2016)
- Certificate in Obstetric Pharmacology (NZ 2016)
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