Yulia Stekhova

• Level 5 NICU

• Consultant pediatrician in Southside Pediatrics, Miranda
• Locum VMO in regional hospitals (Dubbo base Hospital and Bowral Hospital)
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• Level 5 NICU with 18 intensive care and 19 special care beds
• Participate in ward rounds and clinical handover
• Participate in on-call (first on-call) roster
• Providing expertise in the management of neonates with complex health problems
• Supervising junior medical doctors (registrars and residents) and nurse practitioners in training
• Enhancing clinical experience in procedural, management, and investigation skills
• Formal and informal teaching
• Implementing clinician performed US in clinical practice
• Participating in developmental follow up
• Participating in research and quality improvement projects

• Largest NICU in NSW with around 1500 admissions a year, managing variety of medical and surgical problems (newborns with complex surgical and cardiac conditions who are transferred to the co-located CHW for subspecialist treatment after initial stabilization)
• Undertake clinical responsibilities on a rotational basis across NICU, SCN, Growth and Development Clinic and other outpatient clinics such as short-term follow-up of recently discharged patients and antenatal consultations for women with expected high risk delivery
• Attend ward rounds and participate with the Staff Specialist in developing management plans for each patient
• Provide and supervise clinical care including admission, physical examination, performance of clinical procedures, formulation of investigations and management plans, review of progress, discharge planning, arrangement of safe inter-hospital transfers, completion and checking of all discharge summaries, maintenance of medical documentation in the electronic medical record, and liaising with families
• Perform technical procedures including basic and advanced neonatal resuscitation, all aspects of ventilation of the newborn, intravenous cannulation, insertion of peripheral arterial lines, umbilical lines and peripherally inserted central catheters, lumbar puncture, supra-pubic aspiration of urine, endotracheal intubation, insertion of chest drains, exchange transfusion
• Participate in the first on call roster
• Participate, plan, lead and monitor the implementation of new practices aimed at improving the quality of care provided within the department, including the development of new guidelines according to best evidence
• Participate actively in quality improvement, morbidity and mortality review, and peer review activities within the hospital
• Participate in a regular educational/teaching sessions in neonatal medicine
• Participate in the supervision of trainees

• Rural medicine, Dubbo Base Hospital -6 months
• General Paediatrics-9 months (Liverpool Hospital, CHW)
• Child Protection 6 months
• NETS 6 months
• Surgical NICU, Grace, CHW 6 months
• Neonatal/perinatal medicine, NICU fellow in RNSH (February 2021-November 2021)

9 months of general Paediatrics (Campbelltown hospital, CHW and Liverpool hospital)

• 6 months of Emergency medicine (CHW)
• 6 months of relief
• 3 months Neurology