Forough Talaeizadeh
Registered Nurse Midwife
Mount Roskill, Auckland,New Zealand
Summary
Certified Nurse Midwife with over 20 years of experience in direct patient care and nursing and midwifery management positions in hospital settings. Experience spans across maternity care, intensive neonatal care units (NICU), post-operation units and med-surgical environments.
With a strong background in professional leadership of hospital staff members and clinical supervision.
Passionate about providing programs and services to support growth and healing for premature infants,women with obstetric and gynecology issues and patients with psychological complaints. Active listener with direct communication style and compassionate, non-judgmental approach to build patient trust and rapport. Outside-the-box thinker with strong crisis resolution skills.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical supervisor
Shiraz University of Medical science
04.2018 - 11.2022
- Hafez hospital
- Supervising and authoritative presence ensures that high-quality nursing and maternity services are provided to all patients and their families
- Directing the implementation of a comprehensive, individualized treatment plan with all clinical staff and supporting the concept of normality and continuity of care for all patients
- Collaboration in managing the complications and emergencies involved through hospitalization
- Directing the implementation of appropriate therapeutic interventions for patients and clients in a crisis (like the Covid-19 pandemic period)
- Refer clients to other support services, such as medical evaluation and treatment, social services, and employment services
- Taking part in, leading and coordinating the training sessions and workshops to enhance treatment skills in nursing and midwifery staff.
Head of Labour and Delivery ward
Shiraz University of Medical
04.2014 - 03.2018
- Science, Hafez hospital
- Managing standards of midwifery practices by regularly working in the labour and delivery ward alongside maternity staff to ensure that all staff performance reviews within maternity are undertaken
- Mentoring and supervising midwifery team members for providing high-standard prenatal, antenatal and Postnatal care to all women
- Responsible for midwifery service patients who are clinically managed by physician staff (e.g., cesarean births, breech presentations, pregnancy terminations, and preterm inductions for intrauterine fetal demise)
- Collaboration with hospital managers, professionals, and nursing teams to provide highly qualified maternity care to all women.
Midwife
09.2010 - 03.2014
- In labour and delivery ward
- Shiraz University of Medical science, Hafez hospital
- Monitoring the health of pregnant women and their unborn babies through prenatal, labour and postpartum
- Identify high-risk pregnancies and monitor existing mothers' health conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, multiple births, young or old maternal age, overweight and obesity
- Educating patients, their partners, and family members on reproductive health, preparation for parenthood, and antenatal care
- Helping women cope emotionally and watching closely to recognize problems that might need a doctor's assistance
- Helping patients and their partners cope with miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and terminations
- Providing sound advice to patients regarding diets, exercises, and medications suitable for pregnancy.
Medical-Surgical Nurse
Shiraz University of Medical science
12.2005 - 08.2010
- In obstetrics and gynaecology ward, ,
- Hafez hospital
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care plans in consultation with gynaecologists and other healthcare professionals
- Evaluating medical information and providing direct and individualized bedside nursing care to pre-and post-surgery patients
- Educating patients and their families on surgical procedures and post-surgery care
- Preparing, administering and recording prescribed medications
- Monitoring patients' vitals and reporting adverse reactions to medications on time.
Nurse of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Shiraz
01.2003 - 11.2005
- (NICU, University of Medical science Hafez hospital
- Intensive nursing care of premature infants with endotracheal intubation
- Taking infants’ samples and controlling vital signs
- Inserting Iv line, and Pick line for low birth weight and very low birth weight premature infants
- Neonatal CPCR when necessary
- Carrying out newborns’ screening tests
- Providing information, emotional support, and reassurance to parents, teaching K.M.C., and daily care of their premature babies
- Identifying abnormal and high-risk conditions and writing nursing records.
Midwife
Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical
12.1998 - 12.2002
- Science Vali Asre hospital
- Monitoring the health of pregnant women and their unborn babies through prenatal, labour and the postpartum period
- Educating patients, their partners, and family members on reproductive health, preparation for parenthood, and antenatal care
- Helping women cope emotionally and watching closely to recognize problems that might need a doctor's assistance
- Helping patients and their partners cope with miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and terminations
- Providing sound advice to patients regarding diets, exercises, and medications suitable for pregnancy
- Distinctions/Honors
- Selected national midwife award in 2002 for collaboration in improving midwifery care in Vali Asr hospital, Bavanat, Fars province, Iran
- Selected midwife award in 2009 for collaboration in breastfeeding promotion and standardizing of breastfeeding process at Hafez hospital
- National midwife award in 2016 for collaboration in promoting physiologic childbirth and customer satisfaction
- Selected midwife award in 2018 for collaboration in promoting maternal health at Hafez Hospital
- Selected midwife award in 2018 for management, support and follow-up high-risk pregnant women.
Education
The University of Auckland
2024
Master of Psychology - Midwifery
Azad University of Iran
2019
PhD - Psychiatry
Shiraz University of Medical Science
1998
Skills
- Effective communication skills
- Strong teamwork
- Strong leadership and clinical skills
- Active listening and observational skills
- Process Improvement
- Expenditure Authorization
- Service Utilization Improvements
Affiliations
Member of Iran,Shiraz Association of Midwifery(ISAM)
Member of Hospitalized Infection Control committee of Iran, Shiraz University of Medical Science
Member of mortality and morbidity committee of Iran, Shiraz University of Medical Science
Certification
· Selected national midwife award in 2002 for collaboration in improving midwifery care in Vali Asr hospital, Bavanat, Fars province, Iran
· Selected midwife award in 2009 for collaboration in breastfeeding promotion and standardizing of breastfeeding process at Hafez hospital.
· National midwife award in 2016 for collaboration in promoting physiologic childbirth and customer satisfaction.
· Selected midwife award in 2018 for collaboration in promoting maternal health at Hafez Hospital.
· Selected midwife award in 2018 for management, support and follow-up high-risk pregnant women.
Languages
English
Professional Working
Persian
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Clinical supervisor
Shiraz University of Medical science
04.2018 - 11.2022
Head of Labour and Delivery ward
Shiraz University of Medical
04.2014 - 03.2018
Midwife
09.2010 - 03.2014
Medical-Surgical Nurse
Shiraz University of Medical science
12.2005 - 08.2010
Nurse of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Shiraz
01.2003 - 11.2005
Midwife
Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical
12.1998 - 12.2002
The University of Auckland
Master of Psychology - Midwifery
Azad University of Iran
PhD - Psychiatry
Shiraz University of Medical Science
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