Tracey Haimes

Tracey currently works as a Registered Nurse and Midwife at North Metropolitan Health Service, Western Australia.

I firstly volunteered in the healthcare setting during the completion of my Queen Scout Award.

Completed Certificate IV in Enrolled Nursing in 2000.

As a student Registered Nurse, I completed placements in the country setting of Western Australia. As a team leader I created a play on dental hygiene for children.  This was then performed at various locations in the community including an indigenous community Wakathuni.

In 2007 I obtained my Bachelor of Nursing while working as a surgical nurse.

Another memorable practical placement included being part of my first birth in a rural hospital. This inspired me to train as a Midwife, graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Midwifery in 2009.

During my career as a Registered Nurse/Midwife I completed a five-day midwifery conference in Suva, Fiji in 2016.  I then participated in a few births in the old capital Levuka, Fiji, a memorable experience.

I became more interested in preeclampsia from working alongside clinically with dedicated obstetric physicians who supported women and their families with preeclampsia. My mother also had severe preeclampsia with my brother and a history of recent rheumatic fever.

As a midwife, I first heard about AAPEC at an AAPEC study day on preeclampsia in 2017, where I purchased a copy of the book, ‘Understanding Pre eclampsia’ by Jocye Cowan, Prof Chris Redman, Isabel Walker.