Marsha Blackbell
Bonny Hills,N.S.W.
Summary
Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker and consensus builder. Organized team leader builds positive rapport, inspires trust and guides teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Facility Manager and Acting Executive Clinical Care Services Manager
Garden Village
01.2019 - 07.2023
- Facility Manager of a 142 bed Aged Care Facility, the role includes clinical oversight of Registered and Enrolled Nurses, Personal Care Assistants and Recreational Officers
- Close monitoring of quality of clinical and personal care ensuring compliance with the Aged Care standards and providing excellence in care
- Managing the team to meet all eight Aged Care Standards at a recent January accreditation
- The role includes liaising with families and responding to particular needs, complaints and grievances
- Managing resident and staff incidents to minimise risk and report to the Aged Care Commission as required
- Assessing all business risks with the view to mitigate and minimise to provide a safe work environment for all
- Chairing the MAC meeting to review medication incidents, policies and procedures and all medication updates
- Management of 150 Clinical Staff, including recruiting, induction, training and when required working through the disciplinary process, rostering staff on a 14 day 24 hour schedule to accommodate both the individuals requests and the businesses needs.
- Evaluated facility operations and personnel for safety and health regulations compliance.
Infection, Lead
Garden Village
01.2018 - 07.2023
- Remaining up to date with State and Commonwealth Health COVID regulations to advise the whole business of current, recommended and correct infection control procedures
- Ensuring IPC compliance for the whole business including Home Care, NDIS and the Aged Care Facility
- Including overseeing and managing COVID RAC outbreaks, ensuring staff compliance with correct PPE use including donning and doffing and hand hygiene
- Conducting Infection Control meetings with staff to review and analyse of RAC Facility infections, cleaning process compliance, water analysis with relevant stakeholders.
- Investigated outbreaks and revamped control measures to prevent future incidents.
- Set clear policies to improve success of infection control measures in departments.
Clinical Nurse Educator
Garden Village
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Conducting a Training Needs Analysis of the business for all 250 staff members, from this planning an Education Calendar for the year
- Individual and group training on all Aged Care Clinical Areas such as Mandatory training, Medication Competency, Manual Handling, and Clinical Competencies
- Monitored progress of each staff and provided formal evaluation upon completion of clinical placements.
- Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost staff learning.
Health Science Trainer/ teacher
John Henry Institute
01.2018 - 01.2020
- To disability, child care and aged care support workers in the following courses:
- Dementia Essentials- Cert III Individual Support
- Healthy Body Systems- Cert III Individual Support
- Administer and Monitor Medications- Cert IV HLTHPS007
- Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting- HLTAID004
- Teaching and writing short courses including; manual handling, hand hygiene, oral hygiene, documentation in community setting, pressure injury prevention, infection control, work health and safety, Working as a casual Registered Nurse across all three facilities including being in charge after hours.
- Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators, and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
Community Nursing
Mayo Home Nursing
01.2017 - 01.2019
- 3-4 days a week
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Community, delivered to Veteran Affairs and home care package clients, involving catheter care, wound care, aged care clinical monitoring and assessment
- Monitoring a variety of aged care clients with dementia, and comorbidities
- Clinical assessments are in the areas of skin integrity, bowel and bladder function, cognitive state, continence, pain , and mobility assessment and ADL capabilities, in order that individuals are able to stay in their homes for as long as possible
- This role includes the liaison with general practitioners and allied health professionals to ensure the highest standard of care.
Registered Nurse
Emmaus Catholic Care Of Aged
05.2014 - 01.2017
- Which consists of care and clinical management of 31- 60 high care residents and supervision of 7 -14 staff each sift
- The role includes liaison with medical practitioners, and health professionals to deliver a high standard of aged care
- Writing complete individualised care plans, aged care assessments for each resident and detailed ACFI experience
- Experience with clinical and behavioural management of advanced dementia, residents with comorbidities and palliative care
- Including patients with tracheostomies
- Re-entry to Registered Nursing Course- Institute of Health and Nursing, Melbourne- 2013
- Clinical Placement at Port Macquarie Base Hospital completed 160 hours (4 weeks full time, one week in emergency and three weeks in 2C)
- Serving in Mission (SIM), I was employed as a missionary in Peru
- I worked with abandoned teenage mothers and their babies, in a Christian Girls Home
- I cared for the girls’ holistic needs including physical, social, emotional and spiritual
- I also served our team of 25 missionaries in general health advice, with complaints varying from gastrointestinal to minor infections etc.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
01.2003 - 01.2007
- Stopped nursing whilst caring for my infant children
St George Private Hospital
01.2000
- Two days per week)
- Employed in the Intensive Care Unit
- This unit’s main case mix is cardiac bypass surgery, major liver and bowel resection, neurological surgery and other critical postoperative patients
- Patients in the unit are often intubated, ventilated and monitored closely and thus a high level of expertise is required to care for them.
Registered Nurse- Emergency
NSW Private Hospital
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Private Emergency Department
- This department received a variety of patients from paediatric to geriatric, with a range of both surgical and medical cases.
Southern Highlands Health Service, Bowral Public Hospital
01.2000 - 06.2003
- Casual registered nurse in various wards such as, general medical ward, Emergency Department, High Dependency Unit and Paediatric Ward.
registered nurse
Liverpool Health Service, Liverpool Hospital
01.1993 - 01.1996
- For three years in the Emergency Department with the year prior to this starting my career with a one year post graduate rotation
- This Emergency Department is a busy Level 1 trauma centre which sees a full spectrum of patients from neonate to geriatric and advanced chronic disease process to multiple trauma victims
- Emergency nursing has a focus on assessment and prioritisation with a particular emphasis on resuscitation, stabilisation and referral
- My post graduate rotation year was firstly on a busy general medical ward, predominantly with geriatric patients having both acute and chronic illness
- The next rotation was a surgical ward consisting of ENT, plastics, and surgical vascular where I gained skills in post-operative care and wound care
- Successfully obtained, “Cannulation Course” in February 1994 at Liverpool Hospital
- Objectives
- I desire to continue my role of training and assessment to equip staff coming in the areas of nursing and carers to deliver a competent, professional and high standard of care
- I greatly enjoy working in aged care and desire to continue to work in a quality facility to deliver the highest standard of aged care.
Education
Foundation For Infection Prevention And Control - IPC Aged Care Nursing
Australasian College IPC (ACIPC)
12.2020
TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment -
International Teacher Training Academy
2018
Re-entry Into Nursing -
Institute of Health And Nursing Australia
Melbourne, VIC2013
Graduate Diploma of Critical Care - Critical Care Nursing
University of Wollongong
1996
Diploma in Health Science- Nursing - Nursing
University of Western Sydney
1992
Bachelor of Theology & Diploma of Ministry - Divinity
Sydney Missionary & Bible College
1999
Skills
- Aged Care Facility Manager
- Infection Control Management,
- Nurse training and education,
- Schedule Preparation
- Standards Compliance
Certification
AN-ACC Advanced Courses
Modules one and two with Mirus Academy
End of Life Care
NSW Health- PEPA
Languages
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Educator
Garden Village
01.2019 - 01.2021
Facility Manager and Acting Executive Clinical Care Services Manager
Garden Village
01.2019 - 07.2023
Infection, Lead
Garden Village
01.2018 - 07.2023
Health Science Trainer/ teacher
John Henry Institute
01.2018 - 01.2020
Community Nursing
Mayo Home Nursing
01.2017 - 01.2019
Registered Nurse
Emmaus Catholic Care Of Aged
05.2014 - 01.2017
Registered Nurse- Emergency
NSW Private Hospital
01.2007 - 01.2009
01.2003 - 01.2007
St George Private Hospital
01.2000
Southern Highlands Health Service, Bowral Public Hospital
01.2000 - 06.2003
registered nurse
Liverpool Health Service, Liverpool Hospital
01.1993 - 01.1996
Foundation For Infection Prevention And Control - IPC Aged Care Nursing
Australasian College IPC (ACIPC)
TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment -
International Teacher Training Academy
Re-entry Into Nursing -
Institute of Health And Nursing Australia
Graduate Diploma of Critical Care - Critical Care Nursing
University of Wollongong
Diploma in Health Science- Nursing - Nursing
University of Western Sydney
Bachelor of Theology & Diploma of Ministry - Divinity
Sydney Missionary & Bible College
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