Megan Chidgey

• Improved student health by conducting comprehensive health assessments and implementing tailored care plans.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized healthcare strategies for students with special needs.
• Streamlined documentation processes, ensuring accurate record-keeping and timely reporting of student health concerns.
• Delivery of School based Immunisation Program
• Ear Health Checks
• Adolescent Psychosocial Assessment
• Health promotion in schools
• Hearing and ear health
• Mental health in adolescence
• Nutrition for children – 5 to 17 years
• Sexual health and healthy relationships in adolescence
• Student health care plans
• Suicide risk response
• Universal contact School Entry Health Assessment
• Vision and eye health
• Antenatal and Postnatal Checks when needed

• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Shared care with Canberra Health Services
• Case management of vulnerable patients and their families
• Case management of patients with complex care needs including but not limited to, substance abuse, family violence, family trauma, mental health, complex medical conditions, obstetric complications.
• Patient centered care
• Leadership in case management
• liaison with external and internal multi disciplinary teams
• Negotiate discharge and admissions at The Canberra Hospital for medical conditions and social needs
• Liaise with child and youth protection services
• Calibration of care with Multidisciplinary teams internally and externally
• Supervision of medical and nursing students
• Women's health
• Health Promotion
• Patient education
• Child Development checks
• Postnatal checks
• Antenatal checks Working with external service to create optimal patient outcomes such as:
• Canberra Health Services (Aboriginal Liaison officers, Social workers, Obstetric teams, Fetal Medicine Unit, Antenatal and Postnatal wards, birthing suite, Neonatal Intensive care unit, Special care Nursery, Mental health wards)

• Young mums Clinic Coordinator
• Psychosocial Assessments
• Complex client care
• Antenatal assessments and referring patients to both external and internal specialized services
• Co-ordinate education group classes
• Create and present educational programs for patients regarding pregnancy, birthing and parenting
• Network with community services
• Provide outreach services at The Junction Youth Health service
• Working with external services to create optimal patient outcomes including Child Youth protection services

Completed New Graduate Programs in both Midwifery and Nursing Worked across following areas on permanent and casual basis

• Emergency including Pediatrics TCH
• Special care Nursery at Calvary Hospital
• Birthing suite at Calvary and The Canberra Hospital
• Antenatal ward TCH
• Postnatal ward TCH
• Neurosurgical ward TCH
• Orthopedics TCH