Olivia Doig
Echuca
Summary
June 2025 - Current: Registered Nurse, Bendigo Health
February 2024 – October 2024: Remote Area Nurse (N4) Jabiru Health Centre, Northern Territory
February 2023 – February 2024: Registered Nurse (N3) Milikapiti Community Health Centre, Northern Territory
July 2022 – January 2023: Project Officer – Menzies School of Health Research
March 2021 – February 2023: Registered Nurse (N2) at Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory
February 2018 – February 2021: Registered Nurse, Cabrini Hospital, Victoria
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Remote Area Nurse (N3-N4)
Northern Territory Department of Health: Milikapiti Health Centre and Jabiru Health Centre
02.2023 - 10.2024
- Clinical Nursing Skills: Providing evidence-based nursing care within national healthcare standards, advanced assessment and diagnostic skills, wound care management, emergency and trauma care, women’s health and sexual health checks, antenatal checks, chronic disease management, infection control and management, medication administration: intravenous, oral, subcutaneous, intramuscular, parenteral, intravenous cannulation, blood collection, transfusions and infusions, stoma care, catheter care.
- Cultural competency: Delivering culturally safe and holistic nursing practice, ability to develop effective relationships with local communities, experience working with diverse populations and overcoming language barriers.
- Computer skills and documentation: Ability to navigate and utilise health information systems, documenting patient care on computer systems software, facilitating telehealth consultations and triage, proficient in mandatory reporting and risk man documentation process.
- Interpersonal Skills and Communication: Strong communication both verbal and written, providing health education and developing management plans for clients tailored to the individual’s needs, referring clients appropriately to support services and allied health teams, working collaboratively with Remote Area Nurse’s, Aboriginal Health Practitioners, Rural Medical Practitioners, Allied Health staff, District medical officers and medical retrieval services.
- Operational skills: Extensive experience working both autonomously and in a team, strong time management and problem solving skills, ability to work in a high pressure environment, experience leading outstation health visits.
Registered Nurse (N2)
Royal Darwin Hospital
03.2021 - 02.2023
- Clinical skills: Providing direct care to clients including medication administration, performing assessments, monitoring vital signs, wound care – wound infections, post operative wounds, removal and care of sutures and staples, intravenous access and blood collection, proficient in completing thorough patient assessments, safe medication administration. Five years experience in medical and surgical nursing, both post-operative and pre-operative care.
- Technical skills and Documentation: Documenting relevant information and data associated with client admissions, care planning, progress notes, client education, experience with electronic medication administration computer systems, proficient with the use of hospital equipment including ECG machines, infusion pumps, patient monitoring systems.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Effective communication explaining medical procedures, conditions and management plans to clients and family members, working collaboratively with doctors, allied health teams and colleagues, ability to build and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and their families by tailoring care and client education to their needs through authentic communication processes including simple language, facts, storytelling, imagery and writing.
- Organisational Skills: Prioritising patient care, creating and reviewing care plans for clients throughout the shift, monitoring and escalating a clients condition when required, accurate documentation of patient care, treatments and discharge planning. Experience team leading a ward of 14 patients.
- Standards of Knowledge and Nursing regulations: Providing nursing care based on NSQHS standards and practicing within my scope of practice in align with AHPRA.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing
Monash University
Frankston, VIC01.2018
Diploma of Nursing -
Chisholm TAFE
Frankston, VIC01.2015
Training/Certificates
- Well Woman’s Health Unit: Promote Women’s Sexual Health: NT Family Planning July 2024
- Responding to Sexual Violence in Adults: Monash University: September 2024
- Pre-hospital Trauma Workshop: August 2024
- Remote Emergency Care (REC): April 2023
- Maternity Emergency Care (MEC): October 2023
- Pharmacotherapeutics: September 2023
- TRAN to RAN course: July 2023
- Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program, Royal Darwin Hospital: February 2023
- Understanding Vaccines and the National Immunisation Program AGV: April 2023
- Trauma Care Workshop, CareFlight: November 2022
- Team Leader Training, Royal Darwin Hospital: May 2022
- DETECT Training, Royal Darwin Hospital: June 2021
- Wound Liaison Course, Cabrini Hospital 2019
Timeline
Remote Area Nurse (N3-N4)
Northern Territory Department of Health: Milikapiti Health Centre and Jabiru Health Centre
02.2023 - 10.2024
Registered Nurse (N2)
Royal Darwin Hospital
03.2021 - 02.2023
Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing
Monash University
Diploma of Nursing -
Chisholm TAFE
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