Emma Giacopini

• Conduction of face to face and telephone new client medical law interviews.

• Gather evidence through client interviews to formulate reports and initiate prospective legal action.

• Interpret relevant laws, rulings, and regulations to assist in reporting opinion of prospective case.

• Utilisation of public records databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw Plus to gather evidence.

• Conversion of interview data into detailed written medico-legal chronology to assist legal team in decision-making.

• Collaborated with colleagues specialising in relevant legal areas to verify bases for legal proceedings.

• Develop and maintain professional relationships with external teams to identify new opportunities and resolve enquiries promptly.

• Build and maintain high-quality, professional relationships with clients, offering guidance in seeking local support when necessary.

• Implement structured methods for completing administrative tasks and ensuring ongoing client follow-up.

• Review and assess medical records of prospective cases, providing summary reports back to legal team.

• Provide leadership, support, and training to new medical legal consultants.

• Coordinate weekly catch-ups and debriefs, focusing on medical law enquiries and fostering team building.

• Collaborated effectively with coworkers to complete tasks and meet objectives.

• Responded promptly to customer needs and resolved problems efficiently.

• Management of schedule 4 drugs
• Perform one on one consultation, and medical and psychological assessment of patients to deem safety and suitability in receiving treatment
• Provide patients with drug information, side effects and expectations prior to and post treatment
• Obtain consent, medical history, and medical prescription prior to administering treatment
• Liaise with prescribing practitioner regarding consultation and proposed treatment plan
• Administer cosmetic and therapeutic injectable treatments, botulinum toxin and dermal fillers, fat dissolving and bio-remodelling
• Maintain sterile environment, and discard of sharps as per national policy
• Clinical management of vasovagal syncope
• Recognise and manage complications, emergencies and adverse reactions in accordance with evidence-based practice
• Maintain follow-up of patients post treatment to ensure any delayed adverse reactions are treated
• Ensure continuing professional development (CPD) points, annual skill updates and training competencies are up to date on an annual basis

• Management of urological patients requiring urological assessment and/or surgical procedures
• Assessment of referred patient symptoms and perform baseline observations
• Triage nurse assessment and arrange consultant review
• Triage of high urgency urological malignancy's to less urgent cases such as lower urinary tract symptoms
• Co-ordinate consultant chart clinic whereby completed assessments are reviewed and plans of care and treatment are discussed and decided upon
• Participate in consultant post-op ward rounds in order to gather patient treatment and follow-up plans
• Co-ordinate tele-health clinic for rural patients requiring urological treatment
• Attendance at weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting, aimed at providing a multi-disciplinary approach for complex patients
• Prepare urological patients for theatre, pre-operative tests, preadmission assessment, liaise with perioperative team, presence in preoperative phase to prepare patients for their procedure
• Liaise with Palliative Care regarding patients with advanced stage cancers and preparation for end of life care and needs
• Clinical on-call for urological patients requiring advanced care techniques - supra-pubic catheter changes, difficult Indwelling Catheter insertions, self-catheterisation education, Education and advanced care for urological patient
• Systemic review of state-wide urological procedures and adverse outcomes for patients
• Implementation of Urology Department Journal Club; an opportunity for nurses to share a relevant article in order to have an open forum to discuss the findings, and whether we could implement change into our own practice for improved patient care
• Conduction of department audits in order to assess potential trends in operating theatre leading to negative outcomes
• Committee member for the creation of the Mater Patient Nephrostomy Care brochure
• Creator of Clinical Pathway for nurses teaching Intermittent Self Catheterisation to patients
• Adherence to Good Clinical Practice principles and guidelines specific to Australia

• Pre Day of Surgery - Collation of medical history in order to report to multi-disciplinary team for discussion on individual suitability for surgery
• Fulfillment of the role of preadmission nurse for patients Day of Surgery
• Fulfillment of the role of post-operative Recovery Nurse; stage one, two and three (discharge)
• Fulfilment of the role of Scrub and Scout Nurse
• Disciplines within Day Surgery and Treatment Unit – Plastics, Urology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Neurosciences
• Basic life support trainer and assessor for Day Procedure and Treatment Unit staff
• Intravenous cannulation trainer and assessor for Day Procedure and Treatment Unit
• Committee member of the Princess Alexandra Hospital Patient Satisfaction Group
• Team leader for ambulatory falls prevention group within the Day Procedure and Treatment Unit
• Medical Infusions Unit - Preparation and administration of intravenous immunoglobulins, iron and monoclonal antibodies
• Competent in Intravenous Cannulation
• Preparation, assistance and care during paracentesis, lumbar puncture and port removal procedures
• Identification and management of potential drug reactions during medical infusions
• Daily use of multiple perioperative and non-perioperative software applications: Operating Room Management Information System (ORMIS), Hibiscus, Integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR), Auslab