Sally Drury
Summary
Working in Palliative care for 13 years of experience in direct patient care and nursing management positions across all health care settings. I am committed to embodying the values maintaining dignity and respect with being an active listener with a communication style that is compassionate, non-judgmental to enable building trust and rapport.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse Consultant 2
Hunter New England Health
Manning Base Hospital
08.2021 - Current
- Provided specialist palliative care consultation for complex cases, ensuring comprehensive assessments and appropriate interventions were delivered.
- Participated in multidisciplinary teams, to contribute to continuous care of patients across all care settings. This involves optimising a comprehensive care plans for patients with complex needs.
- Evaluated service performance and developed education programs and professional development opportunities to improve individual and team competencies, clinical knowledge and delivery of care to care for palliative care patients.
- Participated in quality improvement initiatives to improve patient care eg PCOC data benchmarking, peritoneal draining in malignant ascites, Advance care directive completion.
- NSW, Hunter New England Health and Lower Mid North Coast involvement in Education, Conferences and Networking.
Clinical Nurse Specialist 2
Hunter New England Health
Manning Base Hospital - TAREE
03.2016 - 08.2021
- Mentored nursing staff through professional development opportunities, enhancing their skill sets and competencies. ie Syringe Driver medication administration, Last Days of Life Toolkit education
- Collaborated closely with a multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic care and improve patient satisfaction to facilitate and optimise goals of care for palliative care plans.
- Advocated for patients' physical, psychosocial, spiritual and cultural needs during their inpatient stay.
Education
Graduate Certificate - Palliative Care
Flinders University
Adelaide, SA11.2016
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Newcastle
Port Macquarie, NSW10.2010
Skills
- Clinical Leadership
- Nurse Leadership
- Practice Standards Implementation
- Care Coordination and Planning
- Quality improvements
- Mentoring
- Patient Advocacy
- Clinical Quality Improvement
- Discharge Planning
Professional Development
- Virtual weekly RPIM education – Regional NSW Palliative Care Medical Education
- Virtual weekly District Palliative Care Education
- Monthly Morbidity and Mortality meeting - Palliative Care / Oncology
- Yearly attendance: HNE Local Area Nurses Networking Group
- Yearly Coordinator: Lower Mid North Coast Palliative Care Education Day
- November 2022: NSW Palliative Care Conference
- September 2020: Clinical Supervision and Reflective Practice Workshops
- March 2020: Emotional Intelligence in Practice
- November 2019: PCOC (Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration) Outcomes and Benchmarking Conference - Sydney
- August 2019: Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM)
Leadership
- Virtual Weekly MDT with Inpatient, Community Clinician
- Coordination with my Virtual Care Clinics
- Monthly Virtual attendance: Member of HNE Palliative and End of Life Care Clinical Stream – District Governance, MOH (Ministry of Health) reporting
- Monthly Virtual attendance: Palliative Care for People with Intellectual Disability Working Group Project.
- 2017 - Present: Member and previous Chair of HNE Local Area Nurses Networking group (PaCLANN)
- Bi Monthly: Coordinating Reflective Practice sessions for Clinicians on the Palliative Care Ward
- Facilitating ongoing Education to our generalist clinician
Referees
Mrs. Donna Nicholson
Nursing Unit Manager
Manning Cancer and Palliative Care Service
Manning Base Hospital
0408 4564 621
donna.nicholson@health.nsw.gov.au
Dr Arron Veltre
Senior Staff Specialist in Palliative Care
Manning Base Hospital
0411 956 010
arron.veltre@health.nsw.gov.au
Mr Darren Figallo
Assistant Director of Nursing
Manning Base Hospital
0423 782 827
darren.figallo@health.nsw.gov.au
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Consultant 2
Hunter New England Health
08.2021 - Current
Clinical Nurse Specialist 2
Hunter New England Health
03.2016 - 08.2021
Graduate Certificate - Palliative Care
Flinders University
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Newcastle