Catherine Doyle

Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, allied health assistants).

Liaise with GPs, hospitals, community services, and families to coordinate ongoing care.

Contribute to discharge planning and transitions to long-term services (My Aged Care, CHSP, Home Care Packages, Residential Aged Care).

Provide education and support to clients, carers, and families about health conditions, medications, and self-management strategies.

Advocate for clients’ needs, ensuring services are culturally safe and person-centred.

Maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation in line with NSW Health standards.

Comply with NSW Health policies, procedures, and clinical governance frameworks.

Participate in risk management, infection control, and quality improvement activities.

Maintain AHPRA registration and CPD requirements.

Participate in supervision, team meetings, and ongoing education relevant to aged and community nursing.

Provide holistic nursing assessment, care planning, and interventions in the community.

Deliver evidence-based nursing care including wound management, continence support, medication management, pain management, chronic disease monitoring, and palliative support where appropriate.

Monitor and evaluate care outcomes, adjusting interventions as needed.

• Caring for a patient load of 5 to 10 patients delivering evidence based, holistic patient care in a ward setting.
• Working within the Registered Nursing scope of practice and by NSW Health code of conduct.
• Communication skills - verbal and non-verbal.
• Flexibility to adapt to continuous changing work environment.
• Ability to easily build rapport with different nurses every day.
• Resilience to become familiar with a new work environment, computer systems and ward routines.
• Clinical skills related to ward nursing such as oral and intravenous medication management, drain and catheter management, wound care, assisting patient's with activities of daily living.

• Case management and coordination of 20 to 30 patient load, providing holistic, evidence based patient centered care, within the Registered Nursing scope of practice.
• Work autonomously and within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Prioritize patient care according to level of acuity.
• Patient health assessment, documentation of patient care, liaising with the multidisciplinary team.
• Impeccable communication skills between patient, family and health care workers.
• Needs focused care with ongoing patient and carer education and support including.
• Clinical competencies such as management of injectable medications, insertion and management of subcutaneous lines, intravenous drug administration, non-complex wound care, and verification of death certificates.

• Case management and coordination of approximately 20 to 30 patient load, providing holistic, patient centered, evidence based care.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Flexibility to adapt to the constant changing work environment.
• Impeccable communication skills following the ISBAR format in both written and verbal between fellow nursing staff, patients, family and carers and liaising with the multidisciplinary team and GP's.
• Conflict resolution and maintaining clear professional boundaries.
• Clinical skills such as wound management, oral and intravenous medication management, drain care and management, palliative care, ongoing patient and carer education.

• providing ward-based holistic, patient centered, evidence based care, within the Endorsed Enrolled Nursing scope of practice.
• Communication skills both written and verbal between patient's, RN's, doctors and allied health team.
• Clinical skills such as oral and intravenous medication administration, care of peripheral intravenous catheters, catheter care and drain management including underwater seal chest drains, wound care, patient electronic records and patient documentation.