LLOYD DUREY

• Tjilku Walykumunu was a child health research project across four very remote communities in the Gibson Desert. We conducted interviews, surveys, and analysis of clinical data and policy timelines.
• Co-Author and investigator of a mixed methods research paper.
• Literature contributions: medical-anthropology and rural health journal articles.
• Developed creative research outputs including child developmental frieze and family wellbeing matrix.
• Managed project timelines, ethics applications and reporting requirements for funders.
• Facilitated and organised a research symposium 2024 and the engagement and travel of 20 Yarnangu participants from the Western desert for the symposium.
• Knowledge translation and strategies to facilitate community, and data-driven initiatives including interpreter training, community-based researcher capacity building and workshops about nutrition and early childhood development.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion and high-quality results.

• Primary healthcare clinician in extremely remote and cross-cultural contexts, developing a broad set of skills and practicing autonomously within community clinics providing healthcare for 50-3,000 people.
• Efficiently managing small teams of Nurses and Indigenous Health Workers, facilitated specialist outreach trips and aero- medical transfers. Skills include clear logistical planning, clinical reasoning and sound communications with community and during medical consultations.
• Maintained clinical equipment and cold-chain protocols
• Delivered comprehensive sexual healths programs across 11 desert communities.
• Community-based end-of-life care, prioritizing patient comfort and family support. A role requiring sensitive communications, Cultural awareness and the facilitation of healthcare needs between metropolitan hospitals and Bush settings.
• Remote area medic for Warnpurru Gibson Desert Native Title proceedings. Providing an outreach clinic and emergency care for gatherings of Traditional Owners in a remote and resource poor environment.

• Community outreach and primary Health care and emergency medical care to very small homeland communities, mostly around the East- Arnhem Peninsula, via light aircraft and boat. Health care across the Lifespan, from antenatal care to end-of-life care. These roles required much story telling and yarning to understand community perspectives and client wishes, while maintaining skills with all logistical and clinical processes.

• Demonstrated advanced critical thinking skills while managing complex clinical situations involving multiple organ systems in critically ill patients ans specialising in traumatic injuries. This was technical work that involved heavy components and family liaison meetings and discussions related patients care.

Intensive care employment and training in the management of high-dependency and ventilated patients.

Graduate nursing internship at Royal Darwin Hospital.

Upskilling in isolation paediatrics, surgical and emergency nursing. The best aspect of this experience was that it was the main hospital for the Northern Territory and I was able to meet patients from very diverse backgrounds and indigenous groups that I had little previous awareness of. I learnt about the complex nature of health, particularly in societies that are more collective in nature than my own and for individuals that had many competing priorities aside from their individual 'health' concerns, and different concepts of health and wellbeing.