Allison Corina Mills

• Team Leadership / Managing ward team
• Co–coordinating Ward Doctors duties, Organising patient care needs across Orthopaedic Ward
• Mentoring University Nursing Students
• Teaching capacity for RN, EEN, EN and AIN colleagues
• Mentoring new Team Leaders
• Management of various Orthopaedic patients on traction, spinal patients, various types of fractures / trauma, plus Elective Surgery
• PCA and Regional Opioid Usage
• Patients with suction (VAC) therapy / PICO therapy
• Phlebotomy for ward, Ward Champion teaching and monitoring new staff.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.

• Registered nurse who provides full assessment of patients from nursing homes that enter the acute health care system
• The holistic care is patient centered, and the service hopes to reduce fragmentation and help empower patients and their families by providing education and co-ordination of care, that is complex to disease and co-morbidities
• Assessed effectiveness of clinical nursing interventions and programs.
• Assisted in development and implementation of new clinical programs.
• Evaluated patient progress, assessed outcomes and provided follow-up care.

• Preoperative screening of patients prior to hospital entry
• Registrar rounds of patients 48 bedded Orthopaedic unit and various Orthopaedic outlying patients in hospital
• Speaking to Surgeons regarding regular delays of operations, being advocate for the Patient
• Discharge Services from hospital to home in the Community
• Talking to Community / Domiciliary Services; facilitating Physio, Occupational Therapist and nursing services, in the Community
• Organising transport Interstate and out of state for patients, liaising with travel departments, other hospitals, nursing homes and Community staff re discharged / or to be transferred patients
• Working closely with Bed Managers regarding bed availability for patient transfer from Intensive Care Unit, Emergency, Theatres or other wards / hospitals returning to Orthopaedics
• Facilitating Rehabilitation in the Community or in other Hospitals

• Learning about surgical procedures in Abdominal, Cancer, Stomach and Liver procedures
• Also gaining knowledge about Flaps, Grafts, Cancer in Thoracic region of body, Tracheostomies, Out - Patients Clinics

Mentoring new Graduates to the Ward, Orientation, Induction + New Skills in Nursing Procedures

• Assisting Students from TAFE, Griffith and QLD universities on ward
• Up skilling current staff in Mandatory Sessions, BLS, Fire Safety, PCA’s, Epidural’s
• Preparing & Delivering In-service Training sessions on any current subject
• Maintaining Staff Training Computer Records
• Interviewing new staff for ward, helping on recruitment days
• AC/N position as Case Manager / Discharge Planning Nurse for 7 months

• Acute Pain Management for patients with different needs which are pre and post-operative throughout the whole of the hospital
• Ward rounds with Anaesthetists, arranging different medication / pain relief for patients
• Recording and collating patient data to enhance patient care
• As well as providing professional education to both patients and hospital staff

• Company Overview: Health authorities in London, Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Bucks and Berks
• Nursing Homes, Hospital, Community, Management, Nursing Agencies, and Teaching
• Patient Type: Medical, Surgical, Aged Care, Cancer Care/Macmillan Service- Community
• Teaching/ Presentations: Qualified Nurses, Student Nurses, Auxiliary Nurses, Social Services, Health Authorities
• Experience: Education, Selection and Recruitment, Disciplinary/ Terminations, Health and Safety, Budget/ Ordering, Credit Control, Debt Collecting, Data Entry, Rostering, Policies and Procedures
• Direct Patient Care, Patient / Client Assessment, Acute / Chronic Pain Management, Well People Clinics, Working with Allied Health
• Health authorities in London, Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Bucks and Berks