ALPHA BURNS
Summary
Dynamic healthcare professional with over 6 years in nurse unit positions, in addition to 7 years working across multiple surgical units in the hospital. I have extensive experience at Prince of Wales Hospital in managing patient waitlists and coordinating elective surgeries. Demonstrates expertise in elevating patient care standards, supervising staff, and ensuring data entry compliance.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Anum Waitlist Admissions
Prince of Wales Hospital
Sydney, Australia
06.2023 - 03.2025
- Waitlist management of 2500 patients ensuring all patients receive elective surgery in accordance with the NSW Health Elective Surgery Access Policy and guidelines.
- Monitor wait times, appropriate booking of patient per urgency and long wait complex patients. Ensuring patients are appropriately booked for their surgery and are based on individual clinical needs in collaboration with clinical teams.
- Ensure patient readiness and minimize breaches, multiple bookings and cancellations.
- Ensuring elective surgical theatre lists are appropriately booked within the appropriate time frame while also managing emergency surgery in a timely fashion, while ensuring empty or vacant theatre allocation are reallocated accordingly and appropriately.
- Overseeing the management of clerical staff in collaboration with the Clerical Manager, providing clinical guidance and booking support.
- Work closely with theatre manager, clinical teams, nurse staff, patient flow manager, bed manager to coordinate patient bookings.
- Ensure accurate, timely and compliant data entry eg use of IPM and eMR.
- Prepare and analysis waitlist performance reports, including reporting breached patients, cancellation and multiple bookings. And escalate risks, capacity and issues to senior manager.
Anum Perioperative Unit
Prince of Wales Hospital
Sydney, Australia
05.2020 - 12.2021
- Establishing, maintaining and overseeing daily operational and strategic planning for the unit while maintaining high standards of nursing care while applying evidence-based standards and utilising health care research.
- Acting as a role model while inspiring and influencing the team and providing knowledge, experience, and vision.
- Monitoring standards of patient care ensuring care was delivered in a collaborative, open, respectful, and empowering way.
- Overseeing 16 full time staff members, providing personal management, and acting as staff advocate.
- Rostering as per health roster system and in accordance with NSW policies and guidelines.
- Dealing with incidents reported both on IIMS and assisting our Surgical Co Director to deal with patient opinions, stories and compliments and complaints.
Education
Emerging Num Program -
Prince of Wales Hospital
10.2022
Bachelor of Science - General Nursing (Honors)
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
09.2010
Skills
- Patient waitlist management
- Elective surgery coordination
- Data entry compliance
- Performance reporting
- Staff supervision
- Patient care standards
References
- Nicola Timmis, Nurse Manager Admissions, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, 2031, 93823942, nicola.timmiss@health.nsw.gov.au
- Clare Farrell, Nurse Unit Manager Peri-operative Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, 2031, 93823847, clare.farrell@health.nsw.gov.au
Timeline
Anum Waitlist Admissions
Prince of Wales Hospital
06.2023 - 03.2025
Anum Perioperative Unit
Prince of Wales Hospital
05.2020 - 12.2021
Emerging Num Program -
Prince of Wales Hospital
Bachelor of Science - General Nursing (Honors)
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology