Katrina De Laurent

• Responsible for the effective management, development and leadership of the health service, ensuring best practice delivery of hospital, aged residential and community based services
• Responsible for developing cooperative relationships with local communities and organisations
• Undertakes a clinical caseload
• Ensures clinical governance systems are implemented within the health service
• Acts as a role model for all staff in assessing, planning, implementing, directing and evaluating the care of clients according to continuum of care principles
• Participates in the clinical development of all nursing personnel within the health service.

• Manage operational nursing and midwifery service delivery, culture and service improvements to achieve quality patient outcomes, sustainable access and collaboration in health care.

• Senior RN position, coordinating care provision to Acute Care, Urgent Care, Aged Care
• Provide education, support and develop the skills of the junior nursing team
• Liaise with multidisciplinary team to ensure care needs of Patients are met and exceeded
• Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.

• Shift co-ordination
• Sole RAN - nurse-led health care facility
• Assessment, planning, implementation, facilitation and evaluation of the delivery of patient care in Acute Ward, Residential Aged Care and the Emergency Department.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary services to ensure a high standard of health care delivery

• Senior Nursing Leadership position,
• Provide leadership and supervision of professional and paraprofessional nursing staff, ensuring exceptional delivery of care in a 90-bed High Level Care, Aged Care facility
• Responded to behavioural and medical crises codes
• Interacted effectively with senior managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

• Nurse-In-Charge of a small rural hospital including, 20 aged care beds, 5 acute care beds, and Urgent Care.

• Advocating for and Coordinating all aspects of healthcare for First Nation peoples.
• Nurse Coordinator
• On call 24hrs/day 7 days/fortnight
• Coordinating and managing critical care retrievals via RFDS
• Coordinating visiting specialists, Health promotional teams, Doctor days.
• Managing Patient appointments and Patient Transport Service
• Managing Pharmacy including, ordering S4 /S8 / & imprest medications
• Managing Stores Ordering

PORTFOLIOS

• School Health Nurse - health checks, health promotion and coordinating visiting specialists to the school.
• Immunisation Co-ordinator - COVID-19, Influenza, JEV, & Childhood Immunisations
• Men's Health
• Women's Health
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Chronic Disease - diabetes, rheumatic heart disease and chronic kidney disease
• Child and Family
• Antenatal and Postnatal Care
• Evaluated patient progress and responses to various treatments.

• Night Duty Nurse In-Charge, responsible for 30 high care elderly patients
• Provided clinical guidance to Junior Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses and Personal Care Staff
• Provided direct patient care

• Team Leader
• Assess individual patient needs, plan, implement or coordinate appropriate service delivery
• Provide health education, counselling and rehabilitation programs to improve the health outcomes of individual patients or groups.
• Provide support and guidance to less experienced staff

• Deliver quality Primary Health Care to Remote Communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, South Australia
• Assist in the early detection and management of chronic illness
• Child health monitoring and immunisations
• Public health screening for STI, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, B & C
• Provide antenatal and post natal care

• District Health Nurse

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to deliver appropriate level of care.
• Coordinated nursing care to be carried out according to facility guidelines and regulations.

• Managed patients' pain by implementing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions.
• Provided high level of individualized care to adult patients across multiple medical specialties.
• Educated patients and families on medical-surgical procedures, therapeutic regimens and pain management techniques.

• Capillary blood sampling; Enteral/tube insertion/feeding; IM injection

• Primary Immuniser
• Proficiency in Clinical Vaccination Management Systems (CVMS)
• Lead Nurse Immuniser - Mobile Vaccination Program

• Team Leader - COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
  

• Acute Medical / Surgical / Palliative /Peadiatrics / Emergency / Respiratory / Infectious Diseases / Covid-ICU
• Nurse-in-Charge - COVID-19 Rapid Response Unit, Hopetoun

• Acute Medical / Surgical / Paediatric / Rehabilitation
• Adult ALS Education
• Paediatric Fundamentals