Fertility nurse consultant, Paula Bot, a recent addition to the specialist fertility team at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), has quoted the opportunity to train the next generation of fertility nurses as one of the highlights of her new role.

During Paula Bot’s 20 years of fertility experience her career path has taken her from fertility nurse specialist through nurse manager progressing to nurse consultant, with post-graduate qualifications and a Master of Science in Reproduction and Development (University of Bristol) and Independent Nurse Prescriber status (University of South Wales).

Paula is also a registered mentor with the British Fertility Society (BFS) and her role as a trainer for newer nursing colleagues in scanning, embryo transfer and intrauterine insemination procedures is one of the aspects of her work she said she finds most rewarding.

She also enjoys personal interactions with patients, from initial consultations and follow-ups to treatments scans, to performing intrauterine insemination and embryo transfer procedures and ending with pregnancy scans.

Paula said: “My work is about continuity of care, and I find that regular meetings with the wider team at BCRM to discuss more complex cases are both fascinating and productive.

“I am very happy to find I’ve become a member of a really lovely and mutually supportive team who genuinely have the patients’ best interests at heart.”

Outside work, 43-year-old Paula, enjoys reading, walking, paragliding and spending time with her husband, teenage son and their sausage dog, Bella.

BCRM www.fertilitybristol.com has one of the best success rates with IVF and other fertility treatments in the UK and is involved in innovative research covering a range of fertility issues.