KAY MCHUGH

Compassionate nursing professional with extensive experience in advanced neonatal care, dedicated to delivering exceptional service to at-risk infants and their families. Proven ability to evaluate patients’ plans of care effectively while excelling in emergency response and infection control. Highly skilled in communication and teamwork, ensuring optimal patient outcomes in high-pressure environments. Aiming to leverage clinical expertise and patient care management skills to enhance healthcare delivery.

Advanced clinical and problem-solving skills., Expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management of neonatal patients with complex care needs., Ensure quality standards are met and work autonomously within the healthcare team., Pivotal in the planning, managing, and delivering of neonatal specialist nursing care., Provide clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice and education., Attends to newly admitted baby and makes initial care plan., Responsible for the intermediate and special care to infants or newborns., Analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of care to babies and mothers., Interpreting clinical results and initiating investigations., Ensuring that accurate documentation and administrative records are kept., Regularly undertaking management of unit under the supervision of senior staff., Creating a welcoming, caring, and safe environment for neonates and their families., Assisted physicians in administering treatments and in performing overly complicated procedures and medical examinations, diagnostic tests., Identifies needs and problems of neonates through clinical observation, and physical assessment., Provides hygiene, renders baby bath and physical comfort measures., Administers medication, carries out treatment and procedures rules, reactions., Knows the actions, side effects and necessary precautions to be observed in the administration of medication and makes referrals accordingly., Provided special care like supplemental oxygen, specialized feeding, intravenous, phototherapy., Demonstrate effectiveness in the Clinical Facilitator role, with responsibilities for orientating all new staff to the ward., Maintaining on-the-job coaching and educating for all other colleagues on the ward., Demonstrate leadership qualities and contributions to professional development through fulfilling higher duties such as Coordinator, mandatory assessment days (mad), Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation resource person care of the dying person pathway resource person., Demonstrate initiative in pursuing continuous quality improvement objectives., Created an orientation booklet and portfolio folder for new nurses., Completed the mad bookings for all 9as nurses for all of 2009., Developed and presented a case study, 'use of granufoam in complex wound management', at the KCI conference in Sydney, in November 2008., As acting nurse educator demonstrate well-developed planning and organizational skills and the capacity to manage competing priorities., Covering 3 wards in monitoring new graduate nurses' progress with their transition modules., Assessing and ensuring the currency of all nursing staff core competencies., Liaising and negotiating with nurse unit managers and other Clinical Facilitators on performance issues., Maintain advanced level clinical skills through delivering client-focused, evidence-based care programs in a multi-disciplinary team framework., Ensuring continuity of care through consulting with clients, their family, cares, and hospital staff, and applying problem solving strategies., Maintain effective communication through relationship building, forming productive working partnerships, and seeking and utilizing the input of a large multi-disciplinary Team.

Kay.Stewart@health.qld.gov.au

• Advanced Neonatal resuscitation
• Adult/Paediatric Basic Life Support
• Manual Handling
• Pharmacology paper
• Cytotoxic awareness
• Infection control
• Code of Conduct
• Aggressive behavior management
• Cultural awareness
• Fire Safety and evacuation
• Fraud Awareness
• Cybersecurity
• Professional Development

• Post graduate certificate neonatal
• Tpnep Grantly Stable Unit
• Studor workshop e unit
• Management of a patient with an ICC/UWSD
• Acute / chronic pain management
• Palliative care
• Assessor skills
• Clinical nurse (clinical facilitator RN/EN support)
• Performance appraisal and development
• Dealing with difficult situations
• Preceptorship
• Advanced wound management