The Culture of Practising Intermittent Auscultation

Karen Hill

Trinity College Dublin

Karen Hill RGN, RM, MSc, Ba, HDip, Dip.Clinical Tutor in Midwifery, Trinity College DublinKaren currently works as a clinical tutor in Trinity College Dublin since 2013. Previously she has worked as a Clinical Midwife Manager in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. She has more than a decade of clinical experience in Midwifery, in particular antenatal and intrapartum care. She completed her MSc in Midwifery in 2011, with a study regarding midwives experiences of using intermittent auscultation. Prior to training as a midwife, Karen trained and worked as a general nurse in the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Tallaght.

Abstract

Background: Intermittent auscultation is the recommended method of monitoring the fetal heart rate in labour for low risk pregnancies. The use of intermittent auscultation (IA) has been in decreased significantly since the... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Karen Hill (Trinity College Dublin)

Topic Area

Maternity Care

Session

PP-W » Posters: Wednesday only (13:30 - Wednesday, 4th November, Outside Seminar Room 1.10)

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