Career History

Currently:

• Director of Nursing for Sir John Monash Private Hospital
• Quality Consultant for Brighton Plastics Surgery Centre
• Quality Consultant for Tarietta Day Surgery, Victoria
• Quality Consultant for Swingshift Nursing Agency
• Quality Consultant for AkTraprid Nursing Bureau
• Quality Consultant for Manningham Day Procedure Centre
• Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008 & Core Standards for Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Global Mark Certification
• Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008 QMS Certification
• Distance Education Writer for College of Nursing (Day Surgery module)
• Sessional Lecturer College of Nursing
• Sessional Lecturer for Mayfield Education College for all health disciplines

Previous Positions:

• 2005-2008 Clinical Supervisor and Workplace Assessor for Mayfield Education College for all health disciplines
• 2005-2007 Sessional Lecturer Ausmed
• 2006 Acting Director of Nursing, Brighton Plastics Surgery Centre
• 2002-2005 Director of Nursing, Linley Clinic
• 1999-2002 Nurse Unit Manager, Day Procedure Unit, Mt Waverley Private Hospital
• 1992-1999 Sessional Clinical Nurse Educator Lecturer at Deakin University
• 1985-1999 Casual and agency nursing in a variety of Health Care settings including ICU, A & E, After Hours Hospital Co-ordinator, Acute Surgical Nursing and Aged Care
• 1985-1989 Sessional Clinical Nurse Educator at Wimmera Base Hospital for Ballarat College
• 1984-1985 Nurse Unit Manager of Medical/Surgical ward, Box Hill Hospital
• Certificate in Nursing, Alfred Hospital

Membership of Professional Bodies

• President: Day Surgery Special Interest Group of Victoria (DSSIG)
• President: Australian Day Surgery Nurses Association (ADSNA)
• Council Member: Australian Day Surgery Council (ADSC)
• Associate Member: General Assembly of the International Association of Ambulatory Surgery
• General Member: Royal College of Nursing
• Victorian Peri-operative Nurses Group
• Australasian College of Operating Nurses
• Australian Resuscitation Council
• Australian Nurses Federation

Professional development

• Member of Expert Panel for collaborative research project with DSSIG and Latrobe University resulting in Best Practice Information Supplements produced for Day Surgery in areas of Pre-admission, Admission and Staffing
• Represents ADSNA on the following working parties:
• Day Procedure Centre advisory group for the Australian Council for Healthcare Standards
• Peri-operative Workforce project for the Australian Health Workforce Advisory Committee
• Better Skills, Best Care Anaesthetic Project, The Alfred Hospital
• Convenor for Australasian Day Surgery Conference, 2006
• Vice President for International Congress for Ambulatory Surgery, Brisbane 2009
• Represented Australian nurses at the General Assembly of the International Association of Ambulatory Surgery in:

  Boston in 2003
  Seville, Spain in 2005
  Amsterdam in 2007

Presented at Conferences including

• Tasmanian Operation Room Nurses Conference in Hobart, March 2005 & 2006
• Key note speaker at the West Australian Day Surgery Special Interest Group, June, 2004
• Tasmanian Day Surgery Special Interest Group, August, 2003
• Victorian Day Surgery Special Interest Group, July 2003
• Southern Health Paediatric Nursing Update, March 2003
• 4th International Congress for Ambulatory Surgery, Geneva 2001
• 5th International Congress for Ambulatory Surgery, Boston 2003
• 6th International Congress for Ambulatory Surgery, Seville in April 2005
• 7th International Congress for Ambulatory Surgery, Amsterdam in April 2007
• Nursing Symposium, Security Forces Hospital, Riyahd, Saudi Arabia in May 2007

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