Elise Sutton
Summary
Dynamic healthcare professional with a proven track record at Northern Health, enhancing patient care and safety through innovative simulation and safety coordination. Skilled in stakeholder engagement and fostering collaboration, with a relentless commitment to continuous improvement. Recognised for leadership, exceptional communication and a passion for healthcare innovation.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Simulation and Safety Coordinator
Northern Health
01.2022 - Current
- Conducting translational simulation to improve patient care and healthcare systems, through diagnosing safety and performance issues and identifying risks and latent threats.
- Utilising Safety II principles to learn from normal and bridging gaps between work-as-imagined and work-as-done through simulation and debrief.
- Stakeholder engagement to develop appropriate simulation design to meet intended objectives.
- Exploring and testing systems and processes with end users utilising a range of simulation activities including in situ simulation with basic manikins or simulated patients, Visually Enhanced Mental Simulations, tabletop scenarios, staff forums.
- Facilitating debriefs immediately after the scenario. This is a reflective learning conversation involving a range of multidisciplinary end users.
- Improving teamwork, safety culture and psychological safety by providing a platform for staff engage in reflection with perspective and good judgement.
- Assisting in developing high functioning, high reliability healthcare teams through deliberate practice.
- Developing reports post simulation activities on Quantum and developing recommendations formed by discussions by end users during the debrief. With roughly 700 recommendations being made since March 2023 with less than 10% of these having no progress or a decision not to implement.
- Developing reports and briefing papers for the Quality and Safety committees to ensure organisational oversight of recommendations and the decision to implement or not.
- Gaining Quality Assurance approval to present work at external events including the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Victorian Simulation Alliance Translational SIMposium, and Gandel Simulation Service Simposium.
- Design and delivery of an introduction to simulation course for faculty development throughout the organisation.
- Collaboration with external agencies participate in simulation activities.
- Collaboration with external health organisations to benchmark, develop and progress the team.
Clinical Deterioration & Resuscitation Coordinator
Northern Health
03.2020 - Current
- Responsive and adaptable to meeting organisational demands.
- Excellent communication with key stakeholders from all disciplines and levels of training.
- Coordinating, collaborating and assisting with facilitation of best practice recognition and response of clinical deterioration and resuscitation across Northern Health.
- Acting as a key lead to Standard 8 by advocating compliance of each criteria within the standard and acting as a resource person to staff at all levels.
- Assisting the Standard 8 Chair to lead the Clinical Improvement Committee, leading several improvement initiatives via working groups, and filling in to Chair meetings due to leave or clinical duty requirements of the Chair.
- Assisting and advocating organisational change whilst ensuring patient and staff well-being and safety, in addition to ensuring Standard 8 compliance.
- Developing, designing and updating procedures and clinical forms with consideration of human factors.
- Informing the design of the 'Deteriorating patient' module within with Electronic Medical Record ensuring compliance with Standard 8 criteria and best practice recognition and response of clinical deterioration.
- Leading the rollout of a new fleet of defibrillators organisational wide. This included coordinating education, GANTT charts to monitor timelines, communication with all key stakeholders throughout the organisation, programming settings on the defibrillators, liaising with external representatives, changes to educational resources and procedures. Successful rollout of this new fleet of defibrillators ensured best practice defibrillation is available to Northern Health patients aligning with the Australiana & New Zealand Committee On Resuscitation (ANZCOR) recommendations and closing off a long standing risk on the Standard 8 risk register.
- Leading an allergy and anaphylaxis project which resulted in a change in the scope of practice for Registered Nursing staff at Northern Health to have the authority to nurse initiate adrenaline in the setting of anaphylaxis. This project also included development of an allergy and anaphylaxis management procedure, collaboration with several key stakeholders, development on a new learning package, providing face to face education, and alignment with Safer Care Victoria's Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard.
- In collaboration with the Medtasker improvement committee we successfully implemented PreMET call activation through Medtasker at NHE. This reduced the workload on the non-clinical communication staff by approximately half allowing them to focus on urgent calls and reduced room for human error. The team receiving the activation now receive more meaningful information as prompts and mandatory fields are applied. We are now also able to collect data regarding PreMET calls which was previously not available due to the sheer volume and collate the data on a live dashboard on the intranet to track trends and multiple calls.
- Successfully developed the 'Simulating together for safety' study day through the 'Big idea' campaign. This involved developing an idea and pitching to the Chief Executive and Executive team, resulting in a Simulation Clinical Nurse Educator position being approved and the ongoing courses being developed (now called TRICS).
- Auditing and reporting data such as frequency of cardiac arrests, reviewing Code Blue and MET data, track & trigger compliance and Resuscitation trolley checking audit.
Sessional Academic
La Trobe University
06.2019 - 04.2022
- Academic marking for postgraduate Health Management, second- and third-year nursing subjects.
- Facilitating labs and simulation sessions second- and third-year nursing subjects, including traditional face-to-face model and virtual forums.
Clinical Nurse Educator
Northern Health
01.2016 - 03.2020
- Evaluated clinical staff performance, identifying areas of improvement and providing constructive feedback to drive continuous growth.
- Utilised adult learning principles to adapt teaching methods according to individual learner needs, maximizing comprehension and retention of material presented.
- Led the development of annual training plans based on identified gaps in knowledge or skills among clinical staff members.
- Assisted in designing simulation exercises, enhancing hands-on learning experiences for clinical staff members.
Emergency Critical Care Nurse
Northern Health
01.2013 - 12.2017
- Completing a Master of Nursing Practice, specialising in Critical Care Emergency Nursing.
- Advanced critical thinking, knowledge and skills, working both independently whilst triaging patients and as part of a team including in advanced life support situations.
- Providing compassionate high-quality person-centred care to diverse populations supporting patients and their families during difficult and vulnerable periods.
Education
Master of Nursing Practice - Critical Care Emergency
Deakin University
01-2015
Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) - Research Thesis
Deakin University
01-2014
Bachelor of Nursing - Division 1
La Trobe University
01-2011
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology
RMIT University
01-2008
Human Factors in Healthcare
Monash University
01-2024
NHET Sim
Monash University
01-2017
Good Clinical Practice
The Global Health Network
01-2021
Design, Teaching & Learning Tertiary Ed (EDU4CTL)
La Trobe University
01-2021
Higher Education Curriculum Design (EDU4HEC)
La Trobe University
01-2021
Skills
- Excellent ability to engage stakeholders and promote collaboration
- Ability to facilitate a learning conversation to form recommendations for improvements in quality, safety and patient experience
- Strong leadership and project management skills
- Relentless commitment to continuous improvement both personally and professionally
- Understanding of human factors principles
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- A passion for innovation in healthcare
Affiliations
- TRANSLATIONAL SIMULATION HOSPITAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
- VICTORIAN SIMULATION ALLIANCE
- AUSTRALIAN RESUSCITATION COUNCIL
- VICTORIAN RESUSCITATION & DETERIORATION GROUP
Timeline
Simulation and Safety Coordinator
Northern Health
01.2022 - Current
Clinical Deterioration & Resuscitation Coordinator
Northern Health
03.2020 - Current
Sessional Academic
La Trobe University
06.2019 - 04.2022
Clinical Nurse Educator
Northern Health
01.2016 - 03.2020
Emergency Critical Care Nurse
Northern Health
01.2013 - 12.2017
Master of Nursing Practice - Critical Care Emergency
Deakin University
Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) - Research Thesis
Deakin University
Bachelor of Nursing - Division 1
La Trobe University
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology
RMIT University
Human Factors in Healthcare
Monash University
NHET Sim
Monash University
Good Clinical Practice
The Global Health Network
Design, Teaching & Learning Tertiary Ed (EDU4CTL)
La Trobe University
Higher Education Curriculum Design (EDU4HEC)
La Trobe University
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