Nicole Stevens

Report to a board of management.

Responsible for the day to day running of a Health care facility.

Facility and fleet management (4 cars, 2 buses).

Leading a team consisting of a GP, nurses, administration staff, community services staff, cleaner and maintenance person and visiting allied health staff.

Collaborate with other managers from Bush Nursing Centres in Victoria to deliver quality health care and ensuring compliance with National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

Support staff in their professional development and goal setting.

Provide nursing care in the centre, in clients homes and in emergency situations both in the centre and out in the field as a remote area nursing with Ambulance Victoria training.

Support the GP with patient assessments and procedures.

First responder trained to provide advanced first aid and support in rural and remote communities and drive the ambulance.

Attend accidents and medical emergencies, deliver early interventions, assess patients health, operate equipment and facilitate transport to hospitals.

Maintain the ambulance and keep equipment stocked and in working order.

• Shift manager of a 62 bed unit; providing clinical support to staff managing babies requiring various levels of care up to intensive care, stabilisation and resuscitation and, sometimes, palliation.
• Working with a multidisciplinary team to support babies and their families.
• Bed management and coordination of admissions and discharges.

• Special care nursery, caring for babies from 32wks gestation and above requiring additional care.
• Care of babies requiring non-invasive respiratory support.
• Stabilisation and resuscitation of babies requiring transport out to an intensive care unit for higher level care.

• Practical skills teaching (neonatal care, with a focus on resuscitation of the newborn) for direct entry 3rd year midwifery students.

• Class room teaching to train staff in use of EPIC EMR program.
• Support in NICU, and hospital-wide, during and after 'go-live'.

• Direct clinical care of neonates in NICU, support of new staff and learners, review of policies and guidelines, membership on various committees.

• Hospital wide educator (specialising in neonatal care).
• Coordination of post graduate NICU students' clinical placement.
• Support of pre-registration students and registered staff throughout NICU and maternity services.
• Practical teaching for medical and nursing staff in emergency departments of both The Women's and The Royal Melbourne Hospitals.

• Combined management, clinical and teaching role
• Clinical: SCN/HDU, stabilisation and transfers, shift coordination
• Education: to core staff, graduates and student midwives, junior medical staff and parents
• Presenting at PD days at BHS and other regional facilities, PROMPT days and the NEORESUS program

• Direct clinical care of neonates in NICU

• For post graduate midwifery students (neonatal care subject).

• Providing support to families with babies in NICU.
• Assisting with accommodation (if from regional areas).
• Support and education to assist with lactation.
• Referring to other support services
• Discharge/transfer coordination.

• Post graduate student in 2008, leading on to an ongoing position in NICU.
• Providing direct clinical care to neonates
• Attending high risk deliveries and acting in a unit support role.

• Hands on clinical teaching for new staff members and students (post graduate and pre registration) in NICU.

• Shift manager of a 12 bed SCN.
• Clinical care to term and preterm infants (>32wks).
• Resuscitation/stabilisation of newborns.

• Midwife , Level 2 (neonates) student SCN, HDU (Care of babies receiving non invasive respiratory support).

• Providing clinical care to mothers and babies in the maternity unit (antenatal care, birthing suite, postnatal care and special care nursery)

• Clinical care of adult patients in a medical/surgical unit

• Surgical and oncology wards (acute and palliative care) and the day chemotherapy unit.

• Working at various Melbourne nursing homes and hospitals on wards including: medical, surgical, oncology, palliative care, cardiac step-down, drug and alcohol detox, renal, neurology, rehabilitation, orthopaedics and midwifery.

• Community based nursing; providing initial assessment and then ongoing care and education to clients with chronic or acute wounds

• Member of the multidisciplinary team within an outpatient rehabilitation unit for elderly clients.

• Acting AUM Providing care to elderly patients in a residential setting.

• Care of elderly clients with various mental health diagnosis in a 30 bed facility.