Benjamin Mathew Gordon
Peregian Springs,Australia
Summary
As healthcare professional with comprehensive clinical nursing experience, excels in delivering high-quality patient care and ensuring optimal clinical outcomes. Known for collaborative approach and adaptability, fostering strong teamwork and seamless integration into dynamic healthcare settings. Proficient in patient assessment, care planning, and medical documentation. Experienced with leadership and managing nursing teams to enhance patient care. Utilizes effective healthcare protocols to drive positive patient outcomes. Knowledge of staff training, development, and problem-solving in dynamic healthcare environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse
Nambour Hospital
01.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Shift facilitator, with the main focus being quality patient care, safe and timely patient flow, continuous reflection of practice, appropriate staffing skill mixes and facilitating inter-hospital transfers
- To conduct a thorough primary and secondary survey on every patient, which provides a detailed assessment to ensure quality of care is provided
- Recognition of sudden, life threatening conditions in people of all ages and in all conditions, and rapidly initiating the required assessments and treatments
- Analyse and interpret various blood results, ECG’s, cardiac rhythms
- Work efficiently in a team based environment, whilst multi-tasking and providing adequate communication to patients, their families and fellow colleagues to ensure that patient care is of the highest standard
- To show knowledge and application of analytical thinking skills demonstrated by ability to apply experience and knowledge to initiate interventions and solve problems
- Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Basic life support instructor and assessor
- Resus and Code Blue lead portfolio holder
- Consistent delivery of high quality health care to improve health outcomes and support service networks
- Provide adequate assessment and management of both adult and paediatric in both an acute and critical setting
- Managing intoxicated patients/clients and those under an emergency examination authority (EEA-Mental Health)
- Applied Skills – Team Leading, Triage, Resuscitation, Analysing and interpreting blood results, Providing support/guidance as to junior staff, Cardiac monitoring and interpretation, Cannulation/venepunture, Prioritising care of critically unwell patients
Acting Nurse Unit Manager
Nambour General Hospital
08.2024 - 10.2024
- Company Overview: Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
Acting Hospital Manager – AHNM
Nambour General Hospital
01.2024 - 08.2024
- Company Overview: Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Engagement in therapeutic and professional relationships
- Assist staff in providing safe, appropriate and quality nursing care
- Responsible for the safe, efficient and effective leadership and management for the facility during and after hours
- Responsible for admissions, bed management and escalations as required
- Lead the hospital team in emergencies and take the chief warden role in an emergency
- Management of safe staffing within the hospital and working with the central allocations department
- Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant – Acute Care
Nambour General Hospital
09.2021 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Excellent leadership, critical care thinking and recognition of deterioration
- Attending code blue, met calls, trauma alert/trauma call, code black, duress and BOC calls
- During this time providing excellent critical clinical skills, along with leadership, delegation and escalation of critically unwell patients
- Difficult venous access, sometimes requiring ultrasound guided access
- Complex wound dressings such as VAC dressings
- Responding and resolving to Ryan’s Rule escalations
- Providing education, support and leadership to staff on the wards
- Adhering to and promoting the service values and quality standards to ensure safe practice
- Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Consistent delivery of critical care knowledge within the wards to reduce deterioration and to educate and support staff of unwell patients
- Delivering education at a high standard, encourage critical thinking and early escalation of concerns
- Developed an excellent rapport with ward nursing staff
- Consistent delivery of high quality health care to improve health outcomes and support service networks
- Published group b documents for the safe transfer of patient’s with covid to the wards from the emergency department
Registered Nurse
Caloundra Hospital
10.2014 - 04.2017
- Company Overview: Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- To conduct a thorough primary and secondary survey on every patient, which provides a detailed assessment to ensure quality of care is provided
- Recognition of sudden, life threatening conditions in people of all ages and in all conditions, and rapidly initiating the required assessments and treatments
- Analyse and interpret various blood results, ECG’s, cardiac rhythms
- Work efficiently in a team based environment, whilst multi-tasking and providing adequate communication to patients, their families and fellow colleagues to ensure that patient care is of the highest standard
- To show knowledge and application of analytical thinking skills demonstrated by ability to apply experience and knowledge to initiate interventions and solve problems
- Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
- Progression to resuscitation, triage nurse and team leader within the emergency department
- Consistent delivery of high quality health care to improve health outcomes and support service networks
- Provide adequate assessment and management of both adult and paediatric trauma
- Involvement in the role out of the Patient Experience Tracker, which provides weekly data in relation to the quality of care that a patient experiences and receives at Caloundra Hospital Emergency Department
- Applied Skills – Team Leading, Triage, Resuscitation, Analysing and interpreting blood results, Cardiac monitoring and interpretation, Cannulation/venepunture, Prioritising care of critically unwell patients
Registered Nurse
Mornington Island Hospital
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Company Overview: North West Hospital and Health Service
- Provide nursing care within emergency, surgical and medical environment
- Demonstrate cultural competence and awareness
- Implement the Australasian triage scale (ATS)
- Undertake shift coordination – delegation of duties, provide optimal quality of care to patients/clients, decision making and reporting to line manager
- Dispensing of medication under remote area conditions
- North West Hospital and Health Service
- Sexual health portfolio which included implementation of research, planning, education, awareness, treatment plans and ongoing patient follow up
- As the Sexual Health portfolio holder this also involved engaging and working with stakeholders to develop and implant strategies
- This resulted in reduced sexually transmitted infections with more clients seeking testing and treatment options
- Provide life support whilst awaiting the Royal Flying Doctor service
- Provide nurse led care in the absence of medical officer
- Provide holistic care to patient/clients with major chronic wounds
- Applied knowledge of chronic diseases such as diabetes and rheumatic heart in managing ongoing client care
- Applied Skills – Triage, Adult health assessment, Paediatric health assessment, Chronic disease assessments such as diabetes, Management of the deceased, Plastering and stapling, Managing intoxicated patients/clients and those under an emergency examination order (EEA-Mental Health), Cannulation, Venepuncture
Education
Graduate Certificate - Emergency Nursing
Queensland University of Technology
01.2022
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Western Sydney
01.2012
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Critical care thinking
- Recognition of deterioration
- Nursing knowledge
- Multi-disciplinary framework
- Evidence based research
- Quality of care
- Motivation
- Guidance
- Empowerment
- Teamwork
Contactdetails
0407643553, Benjamin.m.gordon@gmail.com
References
- Nick Jones, Assistant Director of Nursing, Nambour General Hospital, 0459320985
- Helen Penney, Acting Nurse Unit Manager, Nambour Emergency Department, 0415520174
- Bibin Lukose, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nambour Emergency Department, 0452668591
Personal Information
Residency: Australia - born in Australia
Timeline
Acting Nurse Unit Manager
Nambour General Hospital
08.2024 - 10.2024
Clinical Nurse
Nambour Hospital
01.2024 - Current
Acting Hospital Manager – AHNM
Nambour General Hospital
01.2024 - 08.2024
Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant – Acute Care
Nambour General Hospital
09.2021 - 02.2024
Registered Nurse
Caloundra Hospital
10.2014 - 04.2017
Registered Nurse
Mornington Island Hospital
01.2012 - 01.2014
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Western Sydney
Graduate Certificate - Emergency Nursing
Queensland University of Technology
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