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Work History
Education
Skills
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Professional Memberships
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Katie Carter

19 St Helena Way, Iluka,WA

Summary

I am a Clinical Nurse within the neurology nursing team at PCH. I enjoying all aspects of the role. I strive to maintain positive interpersonal skills, excellent time management, problem-solving skills and work effectively withing the multidisciplinary team. I am actively seeking ongoing learning and enhancement of leadership skills for further opportunities in career progression. Always working in collaboration across CAHS and key support partners to enhance patient care and promote desired outcomes in the patient population.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Clinical Nurse : Neurology Department

Perth Children's Hospital
01.2023 - Current
  • Working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
  • Work well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
  • Emergency and planned clinical support.
  • Ward handover and inpatient rounds
  • Telephone and email support services for patients and family.
  • Staff support and enquires.
  • Updating patient records.
  • Maintain patient databases .
  • Seizure management plans.
  • Updating departmental resources.
  • Updating family information resources.
  • Working in collaboration with Paediatric Neurologists.
  • Computer literacy skills.

Paediatric Registered Nurse

Perth Children's Hospital (previously PMH)
06.2013 - Current
  • Working within the casual pool team.
  • Deliver safe standard of nursing care as per hospital policies standards and clinical protocols.
  • Demonstrate expert paediatric nursing knowledge working throughout a variety of wards and specialities. Including neurology, neonates, acute and complex medical, acute and complex surgical, oncology, adolescents, emergency, plastics, cardiac, renal, neurosurgery, surgical short stay, burns and orthopaedics.
  • Assessment of patients and the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
  • Education and support to staff, patients and families.
  • Communication and liaison with allied health professionals.
  • Clearly and accurately document clinical care provided.
  • Uphold the values of CAHS at all times.

Paediatric Registered Nurse

Noah's Ark Children's Hospital (UHW)
03.2003 - 02.2013
  • I worked at the 46 bedded regional paediatric surgical unit (South Ward) at the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital For Wales (University Hospital of Wales )for 7 years and gained extensive knowledge and experience nursing children aged between 0 -18 years requiring general paediatric surgery, renal, urology, neurology, neurosurgery, ENT, ophthalmology , maxillofacial, dental, trauma, orthopaedic and spinal surgery.
  • Supervision and training of students and junior nurses.
  • Shift coordinator for different areas of the ward as required per shift.
  • Liaising with the multidisciplinary teams across the hospital.
  • Effective leadership skills.
  • Teaching and assessing.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • The paediatric unit was previously joined with the Young Persons Unit and I often worked between the two areas. This included nursing adolescents with medical, surgical or mental health needs.
  • Paediatric pre-admission nurse in the Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic and Paediatric Scoliosis clinic in Llandough Hospital in the weekly clinic. I worked alongside the Consultants and liaised within the multi-disciplinary team regarding pre and post - operative care of these children. I worked within a multi-disciplinary team to produce an Integrated Paediatric Scoliosis Care pathway which was due to be piloted in the pre-admission clinic, PICU, PHDU and Surgical Unit just after I left to come to Australia. During my employment at the University Hospital of Wales,
  • Infection Control Link Nurse for South Ward with a colleague, which included attending link practitioner study days, staff and patient education and hand wash audits of the ward environment.
  • 3 years' experience working on the 0 - 16 year olds medical wards at the University Hospital of Wales where I started when qualifying in 2003, nursing children with acute and complex medical needs. This included caring for children with tracheostomies and long term care needs.

Education

Diploma in Nursing (Child Branch) With Distinction

University Of Wales
Cardiff
03.2000 - 03.2003

Skills

  • The focus of my paediatric nursing career over the past 21 years is to always provide care with clinical excellence while upholding the value of patient and family centered care at all times
  • To continuously develop my skills and knowledge as an experienced paediatric nurse, embracing all clinical and educational learning opportunities that are available, to enable me to perform to the best of my ability and provide the highest standard of evidence based nursing care to the patients and families I am privileged to care for
  • I continue to strive to be a good role model and mentor as well as effective nurse leader in the future, promoting teaching, training and research

Additional Information

Further training / study days

  • Intravenous Study day
  • Mentorship Programme
  • Gastrostomy
  • Parental Nutrition
  • Personal Safety Course
  • Paediatric Life support
  • Band 5 Shift Management T
  • Tracheotomy
  • Stoma Care through childhood
  • Paediatric Catheterisation Course
  • Paediatric Venepuncture C
  • Child Protection
  • Manual Handling
  • Hand hygiene
  • Mandatory training packages at PCH
  • CPD
  • CVAD

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Nursing Federation (ANF).
  • Australian College of Children & Young People's Nursing (ACCYPN).
  • Australian and New Zealand Child Neurology Society (ANZCNS) Nurse member .
  • Association of Child Neurology Nurses (ACNN).



Referees

Angela O'Loughlin

Clinical Nurse Consultant, Neurology.

Neurology Department

Child and Adolescent health Services.

Perth Children's Hospital.

t 64565187

e Angela.O'Loughlin@health.wa.gov.au

Jodi Mann

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Neuromuscular.

Neurology Department

Child and Adolescent health Services.

Perth Children's Hospital.

t 64564333

e jodi.mann@health.wa.gov.au

Additional Information

I am competent with computer literacy skills including hospital programmes such as WebPas, e referrals, ECMS, Queue Manager, Agility, Vocera, TMS, iSoft Clinical Manager, IMPAX, Emdat, intranet, outlook and bloodstar.


I have a current police clearance, working with children card, driver's license and am up to date with all recommended immunisations.

Timeline

Clinical Nurse : Neurology Department

Perth Children's Hospital
01.2023 - Current

Paediatric Registered Nurse

Perth Children's Hospital (previously PMH)
06.2013 - Current

Paediatric Registered Nurse

Noah's Ark Children's Hospital (UHW)
03.2003 - 02.2013

Diploma in Nursing (Child Branch) With Distinction

University Of Wales
03.2000 - 03.2003
Katie Carter