Alicia Graham
Boondall,QLD
Summary
Hardworking Clinical Nurse with success providing individualized patient care. Committed to delivering outstanding patient care. Proven leadership focused on increasing and enhancing patient care and satisfaction. Adaptable to rapidly changing work places. Recently completed Master of Public Health.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Nurse - Combined Clinics
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
02.2022 - Current
- Providing clinical oversight of ENT and Maxillofacial portfolios and managing outpatient waitlists according to SOSIS.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans to ensure safe, timely and effective care of outpatients.
- Assisted in the implementation of new clinical programs including the ENT GPwSI Program.
- Overseeing Orthopaedics, General Surgery and Urology portfolios for extended leave cover.
- Managing patient enquiries and undertaking chart preparation to ensure clinic efficiency.
- Supported students, enrolled nurses and registered nurses within the department, serving as a clinical resource.
- Responded to patient emergencies to provide prompt and correct intervention.
Clinical Teaching Fellow
STARS
07.2022 - Current
- Provided mentoring to student nurses.
Clinical Nurse - Infection Monitoring & Prevention
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
12.2021 - 01.2022
- Monitoring and surveillance of hospital acquired infections and outbreaks.
- Assisted in contact tracing of Covid-19 outbreaks.
- Conducted staff training of infection management measures like correct PPE donning and doffing to improve infection control measures across hospital.
- Fit-Testing N95/P2 Masks for staff across STARS Facility.
- Contributed to auditing including hand-hygiene and PPE consumer engagement.
- Assisted in staff health and flu vaccination clinics and Covid-19 vaccination of patients.
Registered Nurse - Combined Clinics
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Effectively communicated with patients from diverse backgrounds, building rapport and understanding of the people accessing services at STARS.
- Undertook face to face and telephone preadmission assessments of patients.
- Collaborated with surgical case managers, pharmacists, physiotherapy, physicians, surgeons, and anesthetists to ensure patients are safely prepared for surgery.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on pathway from outpatients to surgical treatment.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action in emergency situations.
- Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners and verifying interventions met treatment goals.
Registered Nurse
Surat Multi-purpose Health Service
07.2020 - 01.2021
- Applied critical thinking and problem-solving approach to undertake assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in the provision of quality patient-centred nursing care to outpatients, emergency presentations, acute inpatients and long stay residents.
- Shift coordinating including delegating and supervising non-clinical and clinical staff.
- Covid-19 testing of fever-clinic presentations
- Completed South West HHS’s venepuncture and cannulation package and Advance Life Support competency.
Registered Nurse - Telephone Triage
13 Health
04.2020 - 07.2020
- Telephone assessment of caller’s symptoms using Low Code Emergency Communication Nursing System and recommending an appropriate level of care, point of care and self-care to callers from across Queensland.
- Obtained case history and gathered triage information to determine appropriate avenue for care.
- Providing general health advice from evidence-based resources.
- Assisted in management of patient utilization of health care system and provided patient education relative to health care needs, use of community resources like mental health, child health and primary health services available in their area,
Practice Trainer - Overseas Nurse Program
Northern Care Alliance
04.2018 - 03.2020
- Provided training to over 200 overseas nurses seeking Nursing and Midwifery Council registration to prepare for the Objective Simulation Clinical Skills Examination required to gain NMC registration in the UK.
- Developed leadership skills by advocating for support for overseas nurses and coordinating communication to ward management, human resources, head of workforce and lead nurses to ensure smooth running of program.
- Developed teaching materials and organizing training timetables for the Overseas Nurse Program.
- Taught assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation nursing model across a variety of case studies including pregnancy loss, surgical, cardiac, respiratory, neurological patients and patients experiencing depression.
- Taught safe medication administration, aseptic non-touch technique, subcutaneous and intramuscular injection technique, peak flow readings, inhaler technique, BLS and fluid balance charting using simulation.
- Assisted the wider Learning and Organizational Development team to provide hospital wide mandatory training at induction.
Staff Nurse (Registered Nurse)
Salford Royal Foundation Trust
10.2016 - 04.2018
- Ward C2 – Hyper Acute Neurorehabilitation and Ward H7 – Elective Neurosurgery and ENT
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behaviour to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Developed skills in shift coordination and safe delegation of tasks to Support Workers
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Developed clinical skills including tracheostomy care, positioning and mobility, PEG and NG nutrition, ICP monitoring, lumbar drains, external ventricular devices, IV Therapy.
Registered Midwife and Registered Nurse
PRN Health Care
07.2016 - 08.2016
- Agency work across a variety of hospitals in Brisbane
Registered Nurse
Alfred Hospital
10.2014 - 07.2016
- Undertook Alfred Health’s Consolidation and Transition Program.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Provided care to elective and emergency surgical patients on a busy specialist surgery ward with patients presenting with a diverse range of complex oesophago-gastric, hepatobilary, colorectal and urology conditions at a tertiary teaching facility.
Graduate Midwife/Graduate Nurse
Latrobe Regional Hospital, Bass Coast Hospital,
08.2013 - 09.2014
- Collaborative Dual Degree Graduate Program, Latrobe Regional Hospital, Bass Coast Regional Hospital and South Gippsland Hospital.
- Educated mothers and families on pregnancy-related topics to inform and prepare for pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.
- Provided prenatal care, labor and delivery and postpartum care.
- Performed neonatal assessments by checking baby's vital signs and performing physical exams to determine overall health at birth.
- Provided medical and surgical nursing care in regional hospitals and emergency care in an urgent care centre setting.
Registered Midwife - Graduate Midwife
Proserpine Hospital
02.2013 - 08.2013
- Provided midwifery care in a regional facility in a Midwifery Group Practice model of care.
Assistant in Nursing
Royal Brisbane And Women’s Hospital
06.2010 - 02.2013
Education
Master of Public Health -
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW09.2023
Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery Dual Degree -
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD12.2012
Skills
- Infection Control
- Public Health
- Electronic Medical Record
- Program Implementation
- Staff Supervision
- Patient Assessments
- Acute and Rehabilitative Care
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Patient Education
Certification
Immunisation Course, The Cunningham Centre - 2023
Quantitative Respirator Fit-Testing, Pro Safety and Training Pty Ltd ATF Pro Safety and Training Trust - 2021
References
Nurse Unit Manager
Combined Clinics
Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
Peter.Hancock@health.qld.gov.au
36477092
Dr Teesha Arora
ENT GP with Special Interest
Combined Clinics
Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
Teesha.Arora@health.qld.gov.au
0400753018
Timeline
Clinical Teaching Fellow
STARS
07.2022 - Current
Clinical Nurse - Combined Clinics
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
02.2022 - Current
Clinical Nurse - Infection Monitoring & Prevention
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
12.2021 - 01.2022
Registered Nurse - Combined Clinics
Surgical Treatment And Rehabilitation Service
01.2021 - 12.2021
Registered Nurse
Surat Multi-purpose Health Service
07.2020 - 01.2021
Registered Nurse - Telephone Triage
13 Health
04.2020 - 07.2020
Practice Trainer - Overseas Nurse Program
Northern Care Alliance
04.2018 - 03.2020
Staff Nurse (Registered Nurse)
Salford Royal Foundation Trust
10.2016 - 04.2018
Registered Midwife and Registered Nurse
PRN Health Care
07.2016 - 08.2016
Registered Nurse
Alfred Hospital
10.2014 - 07.2016
Graduate Midwife/Graduate Nurse
Latrobe Regional Hospital, Bass Coast Hospital,
08.2013 - 09.2014
Registered Midwife - Graduate Midwife
Proserpine Hospital
02.2013 - 08.2013
Assistant in Nursing
Royal Brisbane And Women’s Hospital
06.2010 - 02.2013
Master of Public Health -
University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery Dual Degree -
University of Queensland
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