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�9 M i s s J e m f e r C o o l i n g �9 Submission for the awarding of

Life Membership of the Australian College of Midwives

Jenifer has been a registered midwife "for almost twenty-six years. She completed her midwifery education in 1963, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, remaining on the staff as a registered midwife for the ensuing two years.

She travelled overseas 1965- 68, working as a registered obstetric nurse at the Women's College Hos- pital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She spent twelve years at Modbury Hos- pital SA, as Charge Nurse of the Postnatal Ward, during which time she attended the College of Nursing Australia, gaining a Diploma in Hospital Management - Advanced Midwifery. She is a Fellow of the College.

J en i fe r transferred to the Queen Victoria Hospital SA in 1985, as a Supervisor, and with the implementation of the Career Struc- ture, was appointed a Nurse Man- ager.

O v e r the years Jenifer has been active in professional organisa- tions, especially those connected with midwifery. She has been an active member of the SA Midwives' Assn. since 1963, serving as a hospi- tal representative to the Manage- ment Committee from both the Queen Elizabeth (3 years) and Modbury (5 years) Hospitals, and as President 1977-80, and Vice-Presi- dent 1982-86. She has been a member of ICM since 1972, and of the National Association since its foundation in 1978. She was the inaugural Secretary/Treasurer of the National body.

,Jenifer served four years as a member of the RANF State Council, seven years as RANF representative to the Australian Council of Salaries and Professional Associations, in- cluding holding the office of Vice- President on several occasions. She is also a member of the Australian Perinatal Society and the Nurses Memorial Centre Trust.

Jenifer has represented the SA Midwives' Association on a variety of Health Commission and Nurses Board of SA Working Parties, in- cluding those on anaesthetics in obstetrics, quality deliveries, peri- natal statistics and data collection, and midwifery refresher pro- grammes. Whilst at Modbury, she was heavily involved in the Pilot Programme to introduce Personal Health records for babies, now a State-wide service.

Jenifer was a SA delegate to the ICM in Israel in 1978, where she became the first Australian midwife elected to the ICM Executive. She attended Executive meetings in Paris in 1980, and the meeting and 20th Congress in Brighton in 1981. She was the Convenor for the Sou- venir S hop at the ICM in Sydney and attended the 22nd Congress at The Hague in 1987.

She was a member of the com- mittee of the SA Midwives Associa- tion which, in 1970-72 sought mem- bership oflCM. This was granted in 1972 at Washington DC - under the umbrellaofRANF. In 1975, she was a member of the SA committee from which two representatives attended

a meeting in Sydney in the first move to establish a national organisation, which did not continue at that time. In 1977, she was a driving force behind the moves to again endeav- our to form a National Organisation, which led in March 1978, to a meet- ing in Adelaide attended by NSW and Victoria, which formulated the first National Constitution. In July 1978, the inaugural meeting of the National Midwives Association was held in Melbourne, Jenifer becom- ing a member of the Executive Committee, and the inaugural Sec- retary/Treasurer. She was heavily involved in the staging of the first National Conference in Adelaide, and has attended every National Conference since.

It is with pride and pleasure the Australian College of Midwives SA Branch unanimously proposed Miss Jenifer Cooling for Life member- ship of the Australian College of Midwives Inc for her services to the profession of midwifery and mid- wifery practice in general, and for her role in the inauguration and development of the National Mid- wives Association - now the Austra- lian College of Midwives Inc - in particular.

A C M I honours an outstanding

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