Tweed student delivers more than just success as midwife on Gold Coast
This Banora Point student will become one of a just a handful of indigenous midwives on the Gold Coast as she rounds off her final year at university.
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NEW midwife Taneeka Hyatt is taking the first exciting steps into her new career with hopes of improving health outcomes for indigenous women in the Tweed.
The 22-year-old has already helped to deliver 30 babies, and supported 15 women through the pregnancy, since beginning her midwifery degree at Southern Cross University Gold Coast campus four years ago.
The Banora Point local, and proud Bundjalung woman said she loved what she did, and hoped she could make a difference in the lives of women in her community.
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“Growing up I could see the disparity of healthcare access indigenous women face,” she said.
“The amount of indigenous registered midwives in Australia is very, very low and on the Gold Coast there’s only about two or three so we need more.”
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Ms Hyatt was also recently awarded the 2018 Student of the Year by the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives.
Tomorrow will be a proud day for Miss Hyatt as she graduates, alongside 445 of her peers, and presents the students’ vote of thanks.
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The cohort will be the first to have their graduation in Southern Cross University’s new Building C which will be officially opened by MP Karen Andrews today.
Ms Hyatt will then begin a graduate position at Tweed Hospital, working alongside some of the women who helped bring her into the world more than two decades ago.
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