Midwife Teacher – Cork University Maternity Hospital

Following qualification as a midwife in Kent, England in 1990, Annette worked for 9 years as a midwife in the UK and Australia in both the hospital and community setting before returning to Ireland in 1999.  On her return, she continued to maintain a midwifery link with the UK becoming an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (UK) in instructor in 2004 up until 2018.

Annette registered under the Tutors Division of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) Register in 2001 and as a midwife teacher, she has worked both in the university and hospital setting from 2001 to the present and currently located in the HSE Cork University Maternity Hospital Cork.

With a special interest in normal birth practice and midwives’ work, Annette was awarded a Master of Philosophy in 2007 from Glasgow Caledonian University for a thesis entitled “Midwives’ Experiences of Facilitating Normal Physiological Birth in an Obstetric Led Unit-A Feminist Perspective”.  As one of a team of midwives, she initiated and facilitated the original midwives’ clinics in the Erinville hospital, Cork and in St. Finbarr’s hospital Cork and later in Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

Annette has worked as second midwife on the homebirth programme in the South of Ireland and currently facilitates on the Neonatal Resuscitation Programme (NRP), Basic Life Support (BLS) programme, PROMPT programme and the   Facilitating Normal Birth and Managing Childbirth Emergency programme available to midwives, doctors, paramedics and nurses throughout the Southern Region of Ireland.