Shi-Anne Thompson

- Provide comprehensive primary health care to individuals across all age groups.
- Perform health assessments, manage chronic diseases, and provide acute care for a range of injuries and illnesses.
- Skilled in plastering and wound closure.
- Respond to emergencies in the community and provide pre-hospital care.
- Attend to call-outs into the community during and after hours.
- Work as an on-call nurse, triaging emergencies and independently assessing risk factors.
- Coordinate evacuations for critically ill patients when necessary.
- Operate a troop-style ambulance, 4WD, and manual vehicle.
- Deliver health education on disease prevention, nutrition, and hygiene.
- Promote public health initiatives and community wellness programs.
- Manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and respiratory diseases, ensuring adherence to treatment plans and follow-up care.
- Demonstrate cultural competency by engaging with Indigenous communities in a culturally sensitive manner.
- Promote culturally appropriate care addressing specific health needs.
- Conduct myself professionally and culturally considerately while living in the community, even during days off.
- Foster respectful and mindful relationships with local people.
- Participate in community initiatives to support positive change within the community.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including visiting doctors, allied health professionals, and Aboriginal Health Care workers.
- Engage with outreach programs.
- Dispense and administer medications as per scope of practice and guidelines.
- Monitor medication effects and educate patients on proper usage.
- Attend to preventative care, ensuring routine health checks, immunizations, and screenings for communicable diseases.
- Occasionally provide maternal and child health services.
- Work autonomously with minimal supervision, adapting to limited resources and complex situations.
- Use problem-solving skills to manage health challenges in resource-limited settings.

- Experience working in rural/remote settings.
- Adaptable to different hospital protocols across various states.
- Experience in ED, medical wards, and surgical wards in rural Australia.
- ALS accredited through CRANA.
- Worked as the sole RN in MPS/ED settings.
- Triaging in ED.

- Shift coordination.

- Adaptable to different healthcare settings, with experience in units such as the emergency department, various busy medical units, outpatient services, and infusion suites.
- Proficient in navigating the EPAS/Sunrise program, with the ability to switch to paper-based documentation as needed.
- Competent in appropriate medication and DDA management.
- Advocate for patients and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experienced in managing deteriorating patients and participating in METs.
- Skilled in shift coordination on busy medical wards.
- Proficient in navigating patient flow and managing bed availability.

- Working in an extremely fast-paced and busy specialized medical ward with a patient load of 4-6.
- Interpreting blood and other lab results.
- Accessing, deaccessing, and caring for PICCs and ports.
- IV cannulation of difficult patients.
- Proficient in IV therapy, including but not limited to IVIG, platelet and blood transfusions, IVAB, and potassium infusions.
- Care and management of neutropenic patients and other vulnerable patients, including those facing oncological emergencies such as SCC, febrile neutropenia, and more.
- A sound knowledge of different cancers, co-morbidities, and treatments, with experience in monitoring for reactions to cytotoxic medications.
- Implementing end-of-life measures and providing holistic palliative care.

- Grad Year, mostly spent working in Older Persons Mental Health and Noarlunga Hospital