Rebecca Kirsopp

Aeromedical flight nurse in Alice Springs. Operating in PC12 and PC 24 aircraft. Casa regulated. Up to date with mandatory training including cabin safety and non-technical skills. Attending flight nurse led and nurse/doctor missions for primary and secondary retrievals and interhospital transfers. Responsible for comprehensive clinical and logistical processes involved in the aeromedical retrieval of patients.

Placements as follows:

• Alice Springs ICU
• Thursday Island PHC
• Mackay Base Hospital ICU
• Goulburn Base Hospital ICU
• Tweed Heads ICU
• Lismore Base Hospital ICU
• Royal Hobart ICU
• North West Regional Hospital Burnie ICU

Employment from February 2028- March 2022 (6 month deployment from March 2021 - August 2021) and September 2023-January 2024.

Experience in providing high level nursing care to a range of patients with critically ill/compromised conditions. ICU Nursing skills include; daily/routine safety checks, head to toe assessment of patient’s and continuous monitoring, preparing and administration of multiple medications and managing/titrating multiple medications/infusions, assessing and escalating deteriorating patients, ability to make quick and sound decisions in conjunction with medical officer, effective teamwork and communication, routine hygiene, pressure area care of patient’s, contemporaneous documentation, bedside clinical handover. I work in correlation to the standards of intensive care nursing in my daily practice.

Working in the areas of emergency, general ward and operating theatre (anesthetics and recovery). I have accommodated team leader shifts and on- call work in assisting with acute transfers to tertiary facilities and anaesthetic nursing in emergency cesareans. I work safely within my scope of practice and adhere to all local procedure guidelines while mentoring junior staff and students.

Haemodialysis exposure with skills including: arteriovenous fistula and graft assessments and access, central line assessment and access, fundamental understanding of renal anatomy and physiology, safe practice of fluid removal and blood waste product ultrafiltration, blood collection, ongoing patient/family,collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Rural and remote setting in the general ward, HDU and ED, achieved competencies in ALS, PALS, emergency triage, IV peripheral cannulation and venepuncture. Skills gained on the job include: i-stat competent, exposure to a vast range of clinically acute patients. Assisted with paramedic transfers as nurse escort to larger facilities for acute patients. Gained a broad set of foundational rural/remote nursing clinical skills.