Clinical Governance and Risk Manager/Midwife. Interests in evidence based care, advocacy in childbirth and promoting positive working culture. All views my own.

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Joined July 2010
Our inspirational Director of Midwifery receiving the RCM Honorary Fellowship. So well deserved Gillian Morton ✨ Proud to have learned from you and worked under your leadership #SMiLE25 @GillianMorton17 @ScotlandRCM
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We are hosting a webinar for early career midwives to explore positive workplace culture, leadership and the next steps of your career. Join us on 14 September and get all of your questions answered! Book your place: buff.ly/474KQjY
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The first meeting of our new RCM Scotland Risk & Improvement Network took place last week. As you can see we all had a great time getting to know each other and plan our objectives for the year ahead 💜 Check out our Scotland Hub for more info buff.ly/3FAKTIr
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Our Women & Children’s teams celebrating #nursesday 💙
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Our staff at Women and Children's have done a great job with their artwork!
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To celebrate International Day of the Midwife, some of our staff in the Women and Children's Unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital have been getting creative to produce some new artwork. More pictures to follow.
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Got this wee find in a fantastic hidden gem of a bookshop @thewatermill with a lovely wee forward from none other than @MaryRossDavie 😊 some inspiration for the return to labour ward from annual leave!
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Very thought provoking read! Crucial to acknowledge what went wrong but at the same time to stop with the blame culture of physiological birth itself instead of the system wide failings it did identify 💭 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Time to revise the HELPERR mnemonic!
Cohort study of use of the hands-and knees-position as the first approach to resolving shoulder dystocia and preventing neonatal birth trauma sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Gaskin maneuver as the first approach reduces the incidence of baby injury.
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This is why more midwives need to become involved in LEADING research -- designing, operationalising and analysing, not just collecting data.
Good to see that what I knew as a midwife decades ago is getting some air time.
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Congratulations to Lucy Craighead, one of our wonderful NHS Forth Valley Midwives, who has been awarded the Gillian McMillan Inspirational Midwife of the Year Award for 2021.
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Applications are now open to RCM Scotland's First Five Years Forum (FFYF). If you're a midwife less than 4 years qualified this could be for you. More information about the forum and application forms can be found here rcm.org.uk/first-five-years-… Closing date is SUNDAY 28TH FEB
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Incredibly proud of myself and the RCM FFYF girls producing this! Published last week, guidance to support our newly qualified midwives. Already seen lots of changes locally as a result 😊read it here rcm.org.uk/media/3778/first-… #midwivessupportingmidwives #FFYF #NQM @ScotlandRCM
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Thanks once again @MaryRossDavie for having me along. Inspired and reinvigorated re future research opportunities in Scotland and ways to continue to grow and develop as an early career midwife. Great to meet you all!
#scotmidwives2020 #midwives2020 great day yesterday with established & aspiring midwifery researchers to help shape @MidwivesRCM new research strategy & reestablish the national Scottish midwifery research network #Smart @HelenCheyne @JakiLambert @AlisonMcFDundee @DrMariaPollard
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Privileged to attend Royal College of Midwives research strategy event.Inspiring leaders & early career researchers with vision to improve outcomes for women and support midwives through evidence and building research capacity @ScotlandRCM @MidwivesRCM @MaryRossDavie
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