ERIN BURNELL
Ormeau,Qld
Summary
Highly skilled ICU Nurse with over 30 years of diverse nursing experience including over 24 years of specialised ICU care patient care, including ACCESS, ICON and ICU Nursing Education with a level of staff and unit supervision and involved with department operations. Skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments. Key Attributes Belief of ‘doing better and being better’ to encourage staff morale and engagement Conflict Resolution Formed and maintained many professional network relationships within throughout Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals Effective Time Management practices Compliant and current with all mandatory competency requirements Advocacy Utilizes ICARE2 principles as the underpinning of my work practices Specialist ICU Skills not limited to: Airway and Ventilation management including the use of Nitric Oxide and Sevoflurothane Cardiac ECG and Output Monitoring Renal Dialysis Arterial Line and CVAD Line Management BIS and EEG management ICU specific medication administration: titrating and weaning Emergency Response - BLS/ALS annual certification
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Acting
Nurse Educator, Logan Hospital
2023.11 - Current
- Liaised with Director of Nursing Education (Line Manager) to recruit for Clinical Facilitator, and successfully onboarded the successful applicants.
- Management of Clinical Facilitators, including delegation of duties, rostering, providing support, mentoring and succession planning.
- Collaborated and liaised with the LHEX Project team members for the streamlining of staff movement and training schedules from Building 1 to ICU Building 3
- Facilitated the Familiarisation Program to the new Intensive Care Unit to new starters and staff returning to work after a period of leave.
- Onboarded 25 new staff members with the ICU orientation package ensuring Hospital Orientation dates were provided.
- Provided education support and inservicing to familiarise new staff to unfamiliar equipment.
- Initiated a QI survey on the onboarding of the new staff to encourage feedback on the processes during their 3 month orientation phase
- Organized educational programs and inservices to address specific clinical needs.
- Participated in Short-Notice Accreditation to ensure all Standards are met.
- 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 developing education plan for 2024
- Assessment of CPAT for TSP participants and documented outcomes, relaying information to NUM and key stakeholders. Providing feedback to participants and facilitated external appraisal of one TSP participant to provide clear, transparent and equitable feedback as a result of an unsuccessful result of CPAT.
- Assessment of mandatory and ICU specific competency requirements and maintenance of MSHLearn database. Reporting of key indicators to relevant stakeholders.
- Accredited Advanced Life Support Recertification Assessor to be able to accurately and appropriately assess ICU nursing staff.
- Participating in organisational commitments, such as providing support to Nursing Midwifery Hospital Orientation with BLS assessments of new staff, and presenting at the Tracheostomy Workshop.
- Re-established simulation with setting up the ICU Simulation Room with AV-Rack and Mannikin. Providing and assisting simulation for Nursing and Medical staff.
- Participating in meetings and maintaining professional relationships within hospital and external networks to ensure current practices are disseminated to ICU NUM and nursing staff.
Registered Nurse
Logan Hospital
2009.05 - Current
- 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.
Clinical Facilitator ICU
Logan Hospital, Educator ICU
2017.09 - 2021.01
- Meadowbrook
- 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
- Acting Nurse
Acting Nurse Educator
Logan Hospital
2020.03 - 2020.07
- Onboarding and training for 28 novice nurses into ICU for a period of 4-8 weeks at the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic
- Managed 4 CFs at 2.0FTE for first 4 weeks of training the novices - using Employee Movement Forms to onboard staff.
- Provided training on PPE donning and doffing procedures to ensure all staff were trained to remain protected from the virus.
- TSP marking, CPAT assessments and providing feedback to participants. Reporting assessments to the relevant databases and to NUM/CN peer group.
- Implemented training schedules for Prismax Renal Replacement Therapy and the Mindray Ventilator - new equipment procured during COVID for the possible division of units.
- Support KPIs by monitoring and maintaining mandatory and ICU specific skill competency database, reporting to key stakeholders.
Education
Master - Nursing Education
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD12.2025
Graduate Certificate - Critical Care
Griffith University
Gold Coast, QLD12.2018
Skills
- MSHLearn trainer access and reporting using Power BI
- Managing daily rostering changes of my team via myHR.
- Proficient in ieMR, Metavision and Microsoft Office Documents
- Accredited ALS Instructor and Assessor
- Simulation Coordinator, accredited to use high fidelity equipment in simulations
- Advanced Leadership skills
- Adherance to ICARE2 values by:
1. Maintaining personal and professional integrity. I live by the "do unto others approach." I demonstrate this by being transparent, truthful and honest, and ensuring safe, equitable interactions are maintained.
2. Maintaining a compassionate, empathetic approach which involves active listening and responding in a way that is kind, respectful and supportive.
3. Being accountable to my employer, my service division, my team and my colleagues to ensure I maintain professionalism in my decisions, actions and behaviour.
4. Respecting the rights and dignities of everyone I am in contact with.
5. Providing a collaborative environment with everyone engaging to provide highest outcomes for our patients.
6. Excellence is shown by empowering others and inspiring innovation in others.
Affiliations
Member of the QNMU
Referees
Helen Maney - Acting Nursing Director of Education
Nursing Midwifery Practice Development Unit (NMPDU)
Education Centre, Level 7, Building 3
Logan Hospital
Meadowbrook Qld 4131
t: 07 32998890
e: helen.maney@health.qld.gov.au
Kellie Sosnowski - Nurse Unit Manager Intensive Care Unit
5C ICU, Building 3
Logan Hospital
Meadowbrook Qld 4131
t: 07 32998049
e: kellie.sosnowski@health.qld.gov.au
Timeline
Acting
Nurse Educator, Logan Hospital
2023.11 - Current
Acting Nurse Educator
Logan Hospital
2020.03 - 2020.07
Clinical Facilitator ICU
Logan Hospital, Educator ICU
2017.09 - 2021.01
Registered Nurse
Logan Hospital
2009.05 - Current
Master - Nursing Education
James Cook University
Graduate Certificate - Critical Care
Griffith University
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