JANE SUTHERLAND
Registered Nurse, Nursing Unit Manager
Saratoga,NSW
Summary
Dedicated Nursing Unit Manager with 3 years experience in the NUM role, and over 20 years of clinical experience. Proven strength in building capability of staff, strong organisational skills and excellent supervisory and mentoring skills. Collaborates well with clinical staff, providing training and maintaining quality patient care. Promotes best practices by enforcing high standards of care.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Nursing Unit Manager
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health District
08.2019 - Current
- Inpatient Unit G5- Elective General Surgery
- Roster creation
- Co-ordination and allocation of staff according to skill mix
- Calculating Nursing Hours Per Patient Day
- Signing pay sheets
- Chair Ward Meeting
- Conduct 30 Day Conversation with new Registered Nurse (RN)/new Graduate RN
- Performance Development Review with new RN/New Graduate RN
- Attend NUMs Meeting
- NUM Representative on Surgical Services Clinical Practice Group
- Attend daily patient flow and staffing meetings
- Update Patient Journey Boards
- Liaise and communicate with patient flow managers to ensure smooth transition of care of patients to appropriate places
- Incident investigations, including writing Reportable Incident Briefs
- Conduct pressure injury prevention rounds with ward staff
- Completed CEC Foundational Clinical Leadership Program 2021
- Completed NUM/MUMs Leadership Program 2021
- Implemented change management when unit changed from Short Stay to Elective General Surgery
- Conducted ward education to implement new practice change for Intentional Patient Rounding
- Finance and budget planning
- 5S Lean projects to reduce stock holdings and improve time management for staff
- Leave management
- Performance management and review
- Misconduct investigation
- Staff welfare and recognition programs
- Recruitment
- Implement Quality and Safety initiatives for National Accreditation
- Lead a Project Team in Quality Improvement initiative “Bedside Clinical Handover”
- Work Health and Safety (WHS) initiatives, including purchasing of equipment to assist manual handling and WHS for Managers course
- Lead debriefing after significant incidents
- Create a COVID safe workplace
- Complaints management
- Completed Preceptor Program training
Registered Nurse
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford Surgical Admissions Centre
11.2018 - 08.2019
- In-charge, acting Nursing Unit Manager
- Clinical leadership through bedside education and teaching
- Work within best practice guidelines and occupational health and safety
- Mentor for transition to professional practice nurses
- Mentor for undergraduates
- Actively involved in quality improvement at ward level
- Role model and resource person for all staff members
- Contributed to development of Introduction to GSAC brochures for patients
- Contributed to development of GSAC procedure brochures for new doctors
- Medication Safety Champion, including developing and implementing in-service education sessions, and a medication safety information board
- Role modelling compliance to policies and procedures
- Role modelling positive workplace relationships
- Promoting team nursing model of care
- Working towards Clinical Nurse Specialist grading
Acting Clinical Nurse Educator
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health
10.2017 - 08.2019
- Inpatient Unit K9 Orthopaedics/Vascular surgery and Inpatient Unit K4 ENT and Urology surgery
- Induction of transition to professional practice RNs and new staff
- Competency assessments including basic life support, manual handling, IV medication administration, PCA’s, blood transfusion, insertion of IDC, PICC line dressing and line changes
- Member of clinical skills mapping craft group- general surgery
- Development of Breast Surgery Learning Package
- Development of Naso-gastric tube learning package
- Delivery of in-service education, including case study’s, IIMs of the Month, and new learning material
- Developing PowerPoint presentation material
- Clinical teaching, both planned and ad-hoc bedside teaching
- Mentoring new staff
- Role modelling- compliance to policies and procedures
- Transition to Professional Practice (TPP) Bondy’s
- Attending CNE committee meetings
- Attending Clinical Practice committee meeting
- Pressure injury rounding and staff education
- GOLD Trolley education
- Transition to Clinical Nurse Educator Day
- Basic Life Support assessor workshop
- Facilitating workshops and presenting PowerPoint Presentations at Mandatory education days
Education
NUM/MUM Leadership Program -
Central Coast Local Health District
01.2020 - 01.2021
No Degree - Foundational Clinical Leadership Program
Clinical Excellence Commission
New South Wales 04.2001 -
Graduate Diploma of Nursing - Acute Care Nursing
University of Tasmania
Diploma of Health Science - Nursing
University of Newcastle
Skills
Accreditation coordination
Drug utilization review
Patient education and counseling
Training and mentoring
Relationship building and retention
Team Building
Hiring and recruitment
Medication dispensing
Occupancy strategies
Drug inventory management
Project oversight
Staff Management
Multidisciplinary team collaboration
Wellness services
Timeline
NUM/MUM Leadership Program -
Central Coast Local Health District
01.2020 - 01.2021
Nursing Unit Manager
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health District
08.2019 - Current
Registered Nurse
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford Surgical Admissions Centre
11.2018 - 08.2019
Acting Clinical Nurse Educator
Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health
10.2017 - 08.2019
No Degree - Foundational Clinical Leadership Program
Clinical Excellence Commission
04.2001 -
Graduate Diploma of Nursing - Acute Care Nursing
University of Tasmania
Diploma of Health Science - Nursing
University of Newcastle