Midwives on Board! 2020

Alaska – Departing Seattle

Back by popular demand, the four “Professors of Midwifery” return, bringing their unique compilation of thought provoking perspectives on midwifery and early parenting. The innovative education program will take participants beyond routine professional development and challenge all to explore their own contributions to maternity care and early parenting, while also promising fun and interactive activities. Calling all midwives and nurses who are keen to take on new perspectives and (re)ignite their passion for engaging with pregnant women, new mothers and their families. Key Topics to include:

Lectures, interactive workshops and films, to include:

-Maternal anaemia: interpretation, treatment and consequences for infants
– Understanding and promoting infant attachment 
– Breastfeeding update
– Understanding Trauma Informed Practice  
– Current debates and evidence around induction of labour 
– Hot topics and latest research in intrapartum care  
– Maternal deaths in Australia: lessons for practice  
– Socio-cultural influences on birth and new motherhood
– New graduate midwives’ experiences: workforce implications  
– Promoting positive experiences for women undergoing caesarean operation 
– Communication with pregnant women and new mothers  
– Collaboration in a culture of increasing medicalisation
– Transgender parenting experiences
– Setting individual professional development goals   
– Childbirth in Alaska, the USA and Canada: take home resource pack

Join us in this opportunity to learn, while making friends and enjoying the delights of new horizons in beautiful Alaska.

Presenters

Professor Sue Kruske

Professor Sue Kruske has contributed to health services in a variety of roles and settings including clinical, policy, education and research. She has a background in midwifery and child health nursing and worked for many years in remote Indigenous communities. Sue was previously the Director of the Queensland Centre of Mothers and Babies before taking up her current role as Regional Manager of Maternal and Child Health for the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health where she has worked for the past 5 years. Her primary areas of interest and research are in trauma, parenting, and supporting the health workforce in working more effectively with women and families.

Professor Sue Kildea

Professor Sue Kildea is the co-director of the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre at Charles Darwin University. She is an internationally renowned midwifery and health services researcher with collaborative projects across Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK. Specialising in remote and Aboriginal Health Sue has been invited to work as a technical advisor for the World Health Organisation, UNFPA and other organisations in Mongolia, Geneva, Jordan, Viet Nam, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Indonesia. She has a strong clinical background and has long advocated for the return of birthing services to rural and remote areas and the primary care setting. She has received a Human Rights Reconciliation award (2004), the Aurora Award for Outstanding Contribution to Remote Area Health (2012) and in 2018, she received Research Australia’s Health Services Research Award.

Professor Pat Brodie

Pat Brodie is well known to Australian midwives, having held leading roles in the development, implementation and evaluation of midwifery continuity of care models and strategic reforms in maternity service policy, systems of care, education and practice, across Australia. She is a Life Member and a past national President of the Australian College of Midwives, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Midwifery at University of Technology Sydney. Pat has extensive experience in mentoring and supporting midwives through the emotional challenges of midwifery practice in varied settings, including her work as a technical adviser to the World Health Organisation in Papua New Guinea.
Pat was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) in the Queens Birthday honors list for her services to midwifery. She remains a passionate advocate for the greater recognition of midwives as a key to improving outcomes and positively influencing women’s experiences of childbirth.

Professor Nicky Leap

Nicky is an Adjunct Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. For more than 35 years Nicky has had a variety of roles in midwifery practice, education and research in both the UK and Australia. She has published widely, particularly around the theory of ‘working with pain’ in labour. Nicky is well known for her work supporting the development of midwifery continuity of care models and group antenatal care in different settings. She is the co-author, with Billie Hunter, of The Midwife’s Tale: an oral history from handywoman to professional midwife (1993, republished 2013) and Supporting Women for Labour and Birth: A Thoughtful Guide (2016). Nicky is also co-editor of the recently published Midwifery Continuity of Care (2019). She divides her time between living in Bristol in the UK and the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia.

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