Event Details
Zoom Meeting
20 August 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST
20 August 2024
– 20 August 2024
Zoom Meeting
20 August 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST
20 August 2024
– 20 August 2024
Presenters:
A/Prof Josephine LaurieDirector of Obstetric Medicine
Mater Mothers' Hospital
Jo is Director of Obstetric Medicine at Mater Mothers’ Hospital in sunny Brisbane. She is a strong advocate for interdisciplinary care and the continuity midwifery model for complex medical patients – to centre the woman in the care journey and maintain the joy of pregnancy.
Julianne Wilkinson
Midwife
Mater Mothers' Hospital
Julianne Wilkinson is an endorsed midwife who lives and works in Brisbane. Her current Midwifery Group Practice role allows her to enjoy all aspects of the continuum of midwifery she has experience over the last 23 years while she raised her family. She has found that that focusing on women with complex medical needs and providing an opportunity for them to have continuity of career, ties together a diverse range of skills and knowledge gained over a long and varied career.
Midwife
Mater Mothers' Hospital
Naomi Homel is a midwife living and working in Brisbane, she is also a mother of two teenage boys and a kelpie and is completing an Honours research degree. Naomi has worked as a caseload midwife in the Mater Mothers Midwifery Group Practice since her postgraduate year. She was drawn to a career in midwifery by her own birth experiences being cared for by a caseload midwife and this passion for continuity of midwifery care has only grown as her career has developed. Naomi is an advocate for primary midwifery care and she is excited to currently be bringing continuity of midwifery care to women with complex medical conditions.
Event Dates
Date: 20 August 2024
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST
Date: 20 August 2024 – 20 August 2024
Location
Zoom Meeting
Obstetric Medicine Midwifery Group Practice
Midwifery Group Practice
Zoom Meeting
About
The Obstetric Medicine Midwifery Group Practice (OMGP) at Mater Mothers Hospital QLD, provides woman-centred, continuity of care for medically complex women. These women live with conditions such as Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, medical conditions requiring 2 or more specialties outside of obstetrics or a medical condition with a life threatening intrapartum or postnatal element.
OMGP is a collaborative model that includes caseload midwifery, obstetric medicine doctors, obstetric doctors and diabetes educators.
This presentation will the discuss:
- The development of this new model of care.
- The role and the scope of the caseload midwife moving into this medically complex space will be explored and the stance that complex care can be provided by ‘just midwives’ not only dual registered nurse/midwives will be defended.
- The voices of the women will also be heard through case studies and feedback.
Additionally, the vital role of multidisciplinary collaboration will be examined as well as what women-centred advocacy looks like in a medically complex environment.
