Erin Burnell

• Organized short-notice educational programs such as NIV/Ventilation workshop to address specific clinical needs
• Remained up to date on clinical protocols, procedures and developments within ICU to serve as informational resource to nursing staff
• Assessed educational needs of ICU nursing staff by surveying needs of the team and currently developing education plan for next 12 months
• Liaised with Director of Nursing Education (Line Manager) to recruit for Clinical Facilitator, drafting interview questions
• Assessment of CPAT for TSP participants and documented outcomes, relaying information to NUM and key stakeholders.
• Assessment of mandatory and ICU specific competency requirements and maintenance of database
• Liaising with other Nurse Educators and ICU NUM for the onboarding and training of new staff, for both current ICU location and new build.

As RN at the bedside, I:

• Provide exceptional care to high-acuity patients needing complex therapies, such as ventilator management, renal replacement therapies, cardiac monitoring, surgical and medical interventions.
• Provide kindness, compassion and understanding to patients, their families/visitors at all times, and when required enacting security measures for the safety of staff, patients and visitors.
• Ensure dignity and respect is given to the dying patient in circumstances of palliation.
• Provide a high level of care that is person-centred including hygiene, skin integrity and pressure injury prevention is performed regularly and maintained at a high level.
• Collaborate with members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient care is person-centred, safe, timely and equitable.

As both bedside RN, ACCESS Nurse and ICON (Intensive Care Outreach Nurse), I:

• Maintain surveillance to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions - often to assist colleagues in the roles of ACCESS nurse within ICU and during MET/Code Blue situations as the Intensive Care Outreach Nurse.
• Report emergent changes and collaborate with the ICU/Ward Team Leader and Treating Medical Team immediately for direction and assistance of rapidly changing situations, in both the ICU and ward areas.
• Provide skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to the changing needs of the critically-ill patient.
• Ensure documentation is maintained and timely
• Using first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients and enact prescribed treatment strategies.
• Assist with staff allocation, TrendCare and oversee the unit when the Team Leader is on meal break.
• Support colleagues, novices and student at the bedside as both the primary care nurse, ACCESS nurse and ICON to facilitate planned and opportunistic educational opportunities.
• Actively participate in research activities to help inform evidence-based practice.
• Utilise resources that are current, compliant with nursing legislation, and policy and procedural guidelines of both organisational and Metro South Health Service to guide my own and the nursing practice of others.
• Use evidence-based measures to coordinate education plan, implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
• Facilitate feedback opportunities with effective communication strategies, attempt conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviours and escalating to NUM.
• Participate in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.

• Facilitation of education for new equipment to ICU, eg Mindray Cardiac Monitor, Alaris Infusion Pumps, and competency requirements for Digital Hospital implementation
• Collaborated, planned and delivered ICU related topics in conjunction with the Nurse Educator ICU, for structured workshops, such as Cardiac, Respiratory, Dialysis, and Sepsis
• Planned and delivered the inaugural "Inspire" Workshop to encourage morale, succession planning and to 'give-back' to our RNs at the bedside
• Undergraduate Nurse facilitation and reporting within the ICU.
• Novice and graduate nurse transition program, support, teacher, mentor and auditor
• Previous Advanced Life Support Instructor Accreditation 2016-2020 providing BLS/ALS recertification of nursing and medical staff.
• Organisational ALS assessment workshops - Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals
• NIV Workshop Training Courses
• Simulation coordinator for nursing and medical scenario-based learning utilising Sim Man and part-task trainers.
• Implemented Orientation to ICU booklet for Student and new to ICU nurses.
• Upgraded and revised ICU Orientation booklet to reflect the Pandemic Response Rapid Upskilling for Novice Nurses into ICU resource manual
• A resource for other Clinical Facilitator/Nurse Educators within other departments in NMPDU for educational needs of their staff
• Maintaining mandatory competencies and databases for compliance purposes
• Unit-based competency assessments for current and novice staff requirements
• CPAT, module and assessment marking of TSP participants and maintaining TSP database
• Assisting staff with learning support and performance pathways
• Reporting to NE ICU, Director of Education and NUM ICU
• Participating in short notice accreditation

• Onboarding and training for 28 novice nurses into ICU for a period of 4-8 weeks at the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic.
• Provided mentoring and support for staff supporting the novices during that time
• Managed 4 CFs at 2.0FTE for first 4 weeks of training the novices
• Implemented training schedules for Prismax Renal Dialysis Unit and the Mindray Ventilator
• Continued to maintain mandatory and ICU specific skill competency database for existing staff