Rakime Elmir

Dr Rakime Elmir is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. She has several years experience as an academic and midwife and continues to work in a large tertiary hospital.
Rakime's doctoral work focused on women's experiences of severe postpartum haemorrhage and emergency hysterectomy. A key finding from Rakime's doctoral work was the distress experienced by the women's partners. Rakime conducted a study into father's experience of traumatic birth. Midwives experiences perspectives and experiences of obstetric emergencies has also been studied by Rakime.