Hello, my name's Jane Connell. I'm the project lead of the Pregnancy on Palm Innovation Fund Project. We have about 60 women a year who have babies in the community. There's a great deal of information that they need to help them navigate that time and make decisions about their health in that time. And I was finding it quite overwhelming, trying to provide that information. And I thought that developing an app would be a great way to try and provide some of that information. The aims of the project are to provide the pregnant women of Palm Island with information that's evidence-based and flexible to their needs and culturally appropriate, and promotes normal birth and supports their decision-making. We also aim to support our role as midwives by providing education by accessible means. It also gives us a different way of communicating with the women because they are able to message through the app. The project aligns with some of the criteria in that it addresses the social determinants of health. Palm Island is an Aboriginal community of two and a half thousand people. About 60 communists from Townsville. There's a lot of disadvantage here and lack of access to health care. So hopefully this project will help address some of those issues. I hope that it also addresses the criteria of enhancing collaboration because we have talked a lot with the community and other health professionals in developing the app. And a lot of people have been involved. When we evaluate the project, which won't be for some time yet, we hope that it will capture, it will align with the quadruple aim of capturing information from the women and also providing some extra information and some innovation to midwifery practise in the state. So we were provided with just over $132,000. Of that $132,000, about 60 of it was used to employ two people. One was a midwife who actually sourced the contents of the app to ensure that it was evidence-based and in line with Queensland health guidelines and culturally appropriate. The other person that we employed was a local woman who's helped us finding out what women were interested in. And she had a lot to do with the development, helped us actually with the formatting of the app and how it would for the women. The rest of the money, the actual app cost about between 60 and $70,000. There were a number of challenges mainly to do with the length of the project that it was limited. By the time we started the project in the September of 2019 to when we actually got moving was in January. We had delays in recruiting the staff and onboarding them. We had delays in identifying an app developer. So there was a huge delay there. We then proceeded quite quickly until about June of 2020, when we suddenly hit a road bump of cybersecurity and privacy issues, which held us up for another six months. So by the time that was done, the life of the project was over. And we had then lost our local person. Her job had been finished in the September at the end of the project life. So that led to problems actually piloting the app. And that is one of the reasons why we're still piloting, it's not quite launched. I think the main opportunity that came up during the life of the project, was to make some virtual tours of the hospital. We realised that a lot of our women are frightened to go to the hospital in Townsville, where they have to go to birth. So we use this opportunity to make some short virtual tours of different areas of the hospital, and they are linked to the resource page on the app. And they've also been put on the public website of the hospital for other women as well. It's early days yet. So we don't have any significant outcomes from the app, but one significant outcome we've had from the project is that the local woman that we employed to help us on Palm Island has gone on to be trained as a health worker. And it's now a fully fledged Indigenous health worker working in this health centre. I hope you found this presentation from the Nursing and Midwifery Showcase Series informative. Please take the time to check out the other projects that highlight the nursing and midwifery excellence in Queensland Health.