Katherine (Katy) Russell

Working part time, mainly in Delivery Suite and Triage.

• Typically in charge of Triage when rostered there.
• Responsibile for delegating staff and ensuring appropriate triaging and onward refer in a timely manner.
• Supporting junior staff

• LMC midwife for approximately 60 pregnant people per year. Autonomous practitioner responsible for planning and implementing antenatal/ intrapartum and postnatal care.
• Prescribing medication within my scope of practice
• Managing emergency situations as they arise with calm and methodical processes.
• Reflecting and seeking to constantly learn from evolving clinical situations.

• Rotational midwife working between antenatal, labour ward and postnatal wards.
• Quick identification of deviation from normal and referral to members of the multi-disciplinary team appropriately
  
• Keeping paper and computerised medical records
  accurate and up to date.
  
• Acting as the mothers advocate and promoting their own health and well-being.
  
• Supporting the professional development of students and junior midwifery staff

• LMC midwife for approximately 60 pregnant people per year
• Sole responsibility for antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care of low risk mothers, and identifying deviation from normal and appropriate referral to tertiary services.
• Prescribing medication within my scope of practise, including controlled drugs
• Managing emergency scenarios calmly with timely and appropriate referral and care
• Ongoing reflection and recognising potential for learning

• Employed hospital midwife, working between antenatal, birth and postnatal wards
• Mentoring and supporting junior staff
• Identifying need for new protocols (eg sepsis)
• As a senior member of staff, supporting others through emergency scenarios
• Presenting and teaching at emergency study days

• Staff midwife within NHS, with majority of experience being within the triage and assessment department of Scotland's busiest maternity hospital;
• Responsible for immediate triage management of patients on presentation
• Liaising with medical staff
• Stabilising and treating patients on presentation prior to assessment by medical staff
• Recognsing the 'sick' patient
• Responsible for staff roster
• Conducting and hiring staff
• "Acting up" when midwife in charge on holiday

• Working within busy Middle Eastern tertiary hospital on the diabetic maternity ward
• Gained valuable experience working with mainly Muslim clients
• Worked as midwife in charge when on night shift.

• Staff midwife within NHS, with majority of experience being in Labour Ward
• Closely monitored mother's health, comfort and emotional states before, during and after labour.
• Liaising with medical staff
• Interpreted patient complaints, observations and vitals to identify problems or health conditions.
• Monitored mothers and newborn babies during pregnancy, labour and birth and postpartum periods to quickly detect warning signs and treat complications.
• Proficient in obstetric and neonatal emergencies.