MELISSAH DANCE
Stirling
Summary
Clinical nursing professional with sixteen years of extensive experience in team leadership, patient care coordination, and quality improvement initiatives. Strong focus on fostering collaborative environments, ensuring optimal patient outcomes, and adapting to evolving healthcare needs. Expertise in clinical management, staff development, and regulatory compliance. Respected for reliability, integrity, and results-driven approach.
I am currently an Acting Clinical Nurse Manager; and am seeking to further progress myself into this role on a permanent basis. I am a dedicated, hardworking employee and strive high in every challenge that is put to me. I feel my knowledge base and experience would be of great value to the team and organization.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Acting Clinical Nurse Manager: Kingsley Base
Silverchain Hospital at The Home (HATH)
02.2023 - Current
- Duties include but are not limited to
- Staff management and engagement
- Incident reporting and consumer feedback
- Quality improvement frameworks through MARS
- Roster reviews and round alignments
- Engaging and maintaining external and internal stakeholder relationships, through a multidisciplinary approach
- Meeting and managing key performance indicators
- Meeting and maintaining Department of health contractual obligations
- Assisting in client care, when needed
- Review of complex clients, and engaging with external stakeholders prior to clients coming onto service
- Contract management and reviews
- Performance management
- National Safety and Quality Health Service – accreditation standards
CLINICAL CASE COORDINATOR
Silver Chain: Hospital in the home (HATH)
01.2016 - 02.2023
- Duties included but are not limited to
- Evening lead shift coordination for Perth Metro area.
- Day shift coordination of a team of nurses, covering sick leave, daily delegation of staff and workloads, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of both staff and clientele.
- Experience in intravenous cannulation, peripherally inserted central catheters, topical negative pressure dressings, PICO dressings, INR monitoring, intravenous antibiotic administration, drain care management and removal, indwelling and suprapubic catheter care.
- Experience and use of the MARS auditing tool
- Spreadsheet development – sound excel skills
- Mentoring and precepting staff
REGISTERED NURSE
Regents Gardens lake Joondalup
01.2015 - 01.2016
- I worked with Regents Gardens for approximately one year before continuing my career with Silver Chain. The key areas of care in this role were
- Night shift coordination for 100 residents, including medication management, falls management, palliative residents, grieving families.
- Ensuring the safety, wellbeing and coordination of staff and residents
- Covering sick leave
- Responding to resident deterioration and developing care plans alongside the clients’ general practitioner and families.
- Reporting staffing or residential concerns to management.
REGISTERED NURSE/CLINICAL NURSE
ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL
01.2009 - 01.2015
- I worked at the Royal Hobart hospital for six years prior to moving to Western Australia. Throughout my six years at Royal Hobart, I gained the below knowledge and skills
- Conducting medication management – via intravenous cannula and PICC line
- Pain control
- Diabetes management
- Tracheostomy care (suctioning and reinsertion)
- Specialized infusions for multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Pompe disease, myasthenia Gravis, ankylosing spondylitis.
- Blood transfusions and blood products (IVIG and Octagam)
- Post operative care for cardiac and vascular catheterization
- Post operative care of Kidney, lung and liver biopsies
- Ascitic drainage with albumin replacement
- Use of Botox for cerebral palsy and stroke clientele
- PICC line management
- Intravenous antibiotic administration – via infusion or elastomeric for infectious disease and cystic fibrosis clients
- Port management (flushing, insertion and de-needling)
- I gained a level 2 position on the outpatient ward just four years after graduating, taking on the portfolio of falls risk and prevention and staff delegation/coordination on evening shifts.
Education
Bachelor of nursing -
University of Tasmania
01.2008
Post graduate diploma -
University of Tasmania
01.2013
Skills
- Punctual, honest, extremely organized
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviors / situations
- Ability to deal with changes in environment and tasks
- Ability to prioritize changing needs in clinical setting
- Ability to provide quality client centered care
- Delegation skills
- Works well with others
- Works well independently
- Seeks clarity when needed
- Ability to monitor large groups of people, and adjust staffing as needed
- Works within scope of practice
- Prior experience in coordinator role
- Large knowledge base with variety of experience
- Sound flexible decision, negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Clinical leadership
- Staff education
- Medication administration
Timeline
Acting Clinical Nurse Manager: Kingsley Base
Silverchain Hospital at The Home (HATH)
02.2023 - Current
CLINICAL CASE COORDINATOR
Silver Chain: Hospital in the home (HATH)
01.2016 - 02.2023
REGISTERED NURSE
Regents Gardens lake Joondalup
01.2015 - 01.2016
REGISTERED NURSE/CLINICAL NURSE
ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL
01.2009 - 01.2015
Bachelor of nursing -
University of Tasmania
Post graduate diploma -
University of Tasmania
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