Michael Channells
BEAUTY POINT,TAS
Summary
My career has focused on evaluation and intervention, on caring for and supporting patients and their significant others.
I have gleaned a wealth of useful applicable knowledge and skills over four decades.
Patient care remains the central focus of my practice and ongoing education and training.
I am deeply committed to sharing my knowledge and skills and to supporting and advancing the practice and skills of my colleagues.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Flight Nurse
New South Wales Air Ambulance
07.2012 - 07.2023
- Maintained flight medicine knowledge base by attending mandatory meetings, performing chart and equipment reviews, skills labs and clinical rotations and participating in continuing education sessions for care and transport of critically ill and injured patients.
- Planned, organized and positioned equipment and supplies for use in emergency conditions before, during and after transport.
- Assessed for and detected changes in status of patients and demonstrated proactive approach to solving patient problems.
- Documented appropriate and accurate information for assessment and treatment during stabilization and transport.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Wauchope And Port Macquarie Hospitals
07.2010 - 07.2012
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Hunter New England Health Service.
06.2009 - 07.2010
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
N.S.W. Health
03.2009 - 05.2009
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
Registered Nurse, CNS 1, Relieving Manager
Northern Sydney Area Health Service
06.1995 - 06.2008
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
Registered Nurse
Concord General Repatriation Hospital
03.1995 - 06.1995
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
Registered Nurse, ICU
North Coast Area Health Service
08.1993 - 08.1995
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
Registered Nurse, ICU
Central Sydney Area Health Service
07.1989 - 07.1991
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
Registered Nurse/ Midwife
Central Sydney Area Health Service
06.1989 - 07.1991
- Watched vital signs, checked for comfort levels and monitored emotional states of mothers before, during, and after labor.
- Kept accurate medical records by documenting patient prenatal care, labor and delivery and postpartum care.
- Followed professional standards and guidelines by adhering to ethical and legal guidelines and maintaining continued education certifications.
- Educated mothers and families on pregnancy-related topics to inform and prepare for pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.
- Two years post-graduate experience in Midwifery, practising in Ante-natal and Post-Natal as well as Special Care Nursery and Birthing Suite.
Education
No Degree - Initial Graduate of Westmead's Nursing Internship
Westmead Hospital
Westmead, NSW04.1987
No Degree - General Nursing Certificate
Hawkesbury Ag' College And Blacktown Hospital
Blacktown And Richmond, N.S.W.03.1986
Skills
Triage
Advanced Life Support
Cannulation
ECG interpretation
Advanced Airway Management
Rapid Sequence Intubation Team Training
Trauma Nursing Care Course via NSW College of Nursing
Paediatric Emergency Nursing Care Courses x2
Advanced Life Support Obstetrics
First Line Emergency Care Course ( rural/remote focused)
Anaesthetic Placement: ETT and Supra-Glottic Airway placement training
Fetal Obstetric Newborn Training in 2013
Obstetric Emergencies refresher course by CRANA in Hobart: 2018
Accomplishments
I became a Flight Nurse with NSW Air Ambulance at the age of 56, I fulfilled this role for 11 years until settling in Tasmania this year.
I was the initial graduate of Westmead Hospital's Nurse
Internship program in 1986-1987.
I was ship's medic aboard Attitude of London, a 52' cutter yacht on a 6 month delivery voyage from Cairns to Turkey in 2002 via the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary
Certification
General Nursing Certificate: Registered Nurse N.S.W. 1986
Midwifery Certificate 1989
Trauma Nursing Core Course 1996
Paediatric Emergency Nursing Core Course's 1998 and 2010.
Golf, Sailing, Fishing, Cooking,Music and art appreciation, reading, bushwalking.
Keen golfer for 50 plus years (despite having little skill)
Keen sailor cruising/liveaboard and light hearted racing on keelboats.
Timeline
Flight Nurse
New South Wales Air Ambulance
07.2012 - 07.2023
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Wauchope And Port Macquarie Hospitals
07.2010 - 07.2012
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Hunter New England Health Service.
06.2009 - 07.2010
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
N.S.W. Health
03.2009 - 05.2009
Registered Nurse, CNS 1, Relieving Manager
Northern Sydney Area Health Service
06.1995 - 06.2008
Registered Nurse
Concord General Repatriation Hospital
03.1995 - 06.1995
Registered Nurse, ICU
North Coast Area Health Service
08.1993 - 08.1995
Registered Nurse, ICU
Central Sydney Area Health Service
07.1989 - 07.1991
Registered Nurse/ Midwife
Central Sydney Area Health Service
06.1989 - 07.1991
No Degree - Initial Graduate of Westmead's Nursing Internship
Westmead Hospital
No Degree - General Nursing Certificate
Hawkesbury Ag' College And Blacktown Hospital
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