Rebecca Coxon
Roma,QLD
Summary
Considerate expert with passion for providing excellent patient care. Skilled in collaborating with healthcare teams to identify and implement patient-centered strategies to improve care quality and outcomes. Dedicated to promoting patient education and advocating for evidence-based practice.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse Specialist
QLD Health
02.2024 - Current
- I'm currently on a temporary contract in Rural South West Queensland as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care.
- My role includes reviewing referred and current patients on the ward, reviewing patient's when they present to the Emergency Department
- When requested attending Residential Aged Care Homes and reviewing referred residents
- Communicating with GP's and providing suggestions following reviews
- Organising and running telehealth reviews with remote patient's and the Specialist Palliative Rural Telehealth Service.
- I attend an MDT every morning and update the teams on palliative patient's.
- My portfolio is currently PCOC, I am helping the hospital and surrounding health services to implement this and will be providing education on how to use the assessment tool.
- I provide education on the ward to nurses including in-service's and direct skills on the ward.
- My current role plays a large part of the discharge planning for complex client's to be able to go home, which includes collaborating with the multidisciplinary team.
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Karuna Hospice Services
11.2022 - 02.2024
- My current role is a Clinical Nurse Specialist with Karuna Hospice Services
- This not-for-profit service provides specialist palliative care to Brisbane Residents in the community
- My role includes: Consulting clients with life limiting illnesses, Providing end of life care at home
- Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings
- Referring to allied health
- Part of an on-call after hours roster that supports clients and families from admission to our service right through until after bereavement
- Advanced critical thinking
- Excellent time management
- Commitment to personal development
- Development and implementation of comprehensive care plans,
- Comprehensive understanding of disease progression and trajectory
- Anticipating complex symptoms and acting in a timely manner to ensure all symptoms are well managed
- Demonstrated patient and family advocacy
- Demonstrated evidence-based practice and providing the best quality of care
- Advanced care planning
- Recognising deterioration and acting appropriately
- Negotiating skills and ability to navigate difficult situations, Proactive to client and family’s needs
- Liaising with General Practitioners and assisting with guidance for palliative symptom management
- Evaluate interventions quickly and act accordingly
- Draining ascites rocket and pleurx drains in the community, Organizing direct hospital admissions
- Liaising with consultants when required, Commencing and managing syringe drivers
- High level of autonomy
- Education for families caring for a loved one at home,
- Conflict management and problem solving skills
- Advanced assessment and complex symptom management skills
Registered Palliative Care Nurse
Bluecare Nursing
08.2020 - 11.2022
- My previous position is was as a Registered Nurse in the community
- I was part of the community palliative care team where my role is to admit and see palliative client’s in the community, educate and train other primary nurses and work in collaboration with the Gold Coast Palliative care team and GP’s
- I also stepped into the Clinical Nurse Role to cover annual leave
- Initiating and reloading continuous infusion devices for palliative clients
- Attending case conferences at Gold Coast Hospital with client’s, families and the multidisciplinary team to advocate for the patient and family
- Attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings with the Palliative Care Team at Robina Hospital
- Providing training and education to generalist community nurses and assessing competencies for palliative care skills
- Use of PCOC
- Recognising and organising medication changes when needed to ensure comprehensive symptom management
- Forming care plans and goals of care with clients and family to ensure wishes and goals are met
- Male and Female Catheter insertion
- Advanced Care Planning
- Palliative care and End of life care at home
- Arranging direct admission to the Palliative Care Unit
- Organising referrals to Hopewell Hospice on the Gold Coast and into Residential Aged Care if needed
- Resolving and deescalating difficult situations
- Liaising with General Practitioners to provide best patient care, organise medications and obtain medication orders to ensure excellent symptom management
- Supporting family while caring for a loved one at home and gently guiding through what lies ahead
- Frequent evenings on call to support families and client’s in the last days of life to provide phone support for symptom management and visit overnight when needed
- Completing end of life documentation
- Bereavement visits to family
Registered nurse
Gold Coast Private Hospital
06.2020 - 09.2020
- Providing complex symptom management
- End of life care
- Caring for patients receiving chemotherapy on the ward
- Advanced assessment and complex symptom management skills
- Care of neutropenic patients
- Access and de-access of central lines
- IV administration of medications and blood products
- Competent in taking blood from a PICC line
Enrolled and Registered Nurse
NSW Health
11.2018 - 06.2020
- My previous position was as an Enrolled nurse and then a Registered Nurse on a renal/ oncology ward
- My skills and responsibilities include: Administration and management of IV therapy and administration of blood products,
- Competency commencing and managing syringe drivers
- Recognition of deteriorating patients
- management of oxygen devices for patient’s requirements including humidified oxygen through Airvo humidified system,
- Peg feed medication administration,
- Managing patients with complex symptoms,
- Care of patient’s having haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis,
- Competency in end of life care and care of family,
- Pain management including complex pain management
- Access and de-access of central lines
- Competent in taking blood from a PICC line, Care of Vascular Catheters
- Care of neutropenic patients
- Understanding of the signs of sepsis and initiating the septic work up
- Ability to read and interpret pathology results
- Involvement in family conferences
- Management of patient’s with complex co-morbidities
- Strong advocacy for patients and families Care of patient’s receiving cancer treatment including radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy
Enrolled Nurse Supervisor
Aurrum Aged Care
07.2016 - 11.2018
- My role is as an Enrolled Nurse supervisor of 5 care staff and 40 residents in a dementia specific unit
- Insertion and Management of indwelling and suprapubic catheters
- Attending doctors rounds
- Organising family and resident case conferences
- Working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
- Assessment of unwell / post fall residents
- Palliative care management,
- Wound care management,
- Care plans,
- Behaviour management
- Palliative care/ End of life care
- Understanding and compliance of the New Aged Care Quality Standards
Education
Post Graduate Diploma of Palliative Care - Palliative Care
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW12.2024
Bachelor of nursing -
Avondale University of Higher Learning
12.2019
Diploma of nursing -
Gold Coast Institute of Tafe
12.2009
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise patient care
- Positive behaviour modelling
- Professional bedside manner
- Excellent palliative care assessment skills
- Excellent clinical judgement
- Palliative care management
- Solution based interventions
- Ability to identify palliative and oncology emergencies
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Specialist
QLD Health
02.2024 - Current
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Karuna Hospice Services
11.2022 - 02.2024
Registered Palliative Care Nurse
Bluecare Nursing
08.2020 - 11.2022
Registered nurse
Gold Coast Private Hospital
06.2020 - 09.2020
Enrolled and Registered Nurse
NSW Health
11.2018 - 06.2020
Enrolled Nurse Supervisor
Aurrum Aged Care
07.2016 - 11.2018
Post Graduate Diploma of Palliative Care - Palliative Care
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of nursing -
Avondale University of Higher Learning
Diploma of nursing -
Gold Coast Institute of Tafe
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