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Simon O'Toole

Surry Hills

Summary

I am a dedicated Registered Nurse who has 7 years of clinical experience in a large range of areas including: Mental health, Palliative Care, Emergency (adults and Paediatrics) and most recently within the field of complex Gastrointestinal and Colorectal, currently working as the Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant for Home TPN and Intestinal Failure.

I am a keen learner and am always looking for avenues that will help expand clinical skills and knowledge and continue to learn each day

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Registered Nurse

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
02.2022 - Current
  • Completed the Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgical Nursing 2 year program n
  • Completed rotations in Peritoneal Malignancy, Intestinal Failure/Home TPN, Anorectal Physiology, Biofeedback, Continence and Wound/Stomal Therapy
  • Increased familiarity in care-coordination and administration duties for patients experiencing colorectal cancer requiring radical surgeries (Peritonecotmies, Pelvic exenterations)
  • Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
  • Putting together patient cases for presentation at MDT meetings
  • Devising training plans for individuals undergoing Home TPN training
  • Providing telehealth support for patients discharged home who need additional support outside of the hospital setting
  • Chairing MDT meetings to ensure the service continues to run smoothly
  • Organising clinics for patients requiring a MDT approach to care
  • Undertaking research to improve own knowledge and improve clinical practice in paritcular on patients with gastrointestinal motility disorders
  • Familiar with clinically complex and crtically unwell gastro/colorectal patients providing increased support for both nursing and junior medical staff (eg. Hickman lines, Enterocutaneous fistulas, deteriorating surgical patients)

Registered Nurse, Emergency Department

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
08.2019 - 02.2022
  • Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
  • Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action
  • Managed care from admission to discharge.
  • Trained in both adults and paediatrics
  • Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
  • Obtained qualifications in Advanced life-support, Paediatric advanced life-support, Venepuncture and Cannulation
  • Confident in management critically unwell patients requiring organ support systems including Ventilatory support, ECMO and Inotropes
  • Comfortable in a rapidly changing environment and able to rapidly assess patients to ensure they are provided with the correct treatment course
  • Underwent special training to ensure scope could be expanded including- nurse initiated medications, treatments and fluids
  • Gained experience in working as the Resuscitation coordinator able to allocate nurses to critically unwell patients, liaise with the NUM for bed flow of the patients and ensure the safety of both the patients and the staff
  • Experience in safely delegating and coordinating nursing tasks with my team and identified knowledge and clinical gaps and provided ways to improve this

Registered Nurse

Concord Centre For Mental Health
02.2019 - 08.2019
  • Working in the specialty of Women's Mental Health in the high-dependency unit, working with individuals experiencing severe mental illness
  • Working within a multidisciplinary team to map out effective treatment options and approach to patient care
  • Applying models of care such as 'trauma informed care' to ensure patients are not poorly impacted during admissions, especially under a schedule
  • Gained experience in cardio-metabolic monitoring of patients on atypical anti-psychotics to sustain optimal physical health and how to escalate care to reduce chances of poor health outcomes
  • Improved skill in 1:1 counseling of the distressed individual and able to de-escalate at times of aggression, agitation and/or violence
  • Experience in being the in-charge nurse on shift- able to allocated patients to correct staff according to skill set and wards needs, liaising with bed management and other hospitals and ensuring the ward is safe

Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
08.2023 - Current
  • Care coordination for patients across the staff who require training to administer TPN at home
  • Coordination of complex patients with open abdomens, radical intestinal resections and malignant conditions
  • Chairing Intestinal Failure MDT's to discuss current patient management and discuss new referrals and provide management strategies for clinicians across the state
  • Training patients, junior nurses and doctors in the management of CVAD's in terms of accessing, removal, line infections and trouble shooting
  • Engaging in multiple research projects and policy writing on the governance of TPN administration at home and at RPA
  • Providing in-services to nursing, medical and allied health on TPN and Intestinal Failure management


Registered Nurse (New Grad)

Canterbury Hospital
08.2018 - 02.2019
  • Second six-month rotation gaining experience in general nursing environment on the acute medical and palliative care ward
  • Exposure to end-of-life care providing holistic assessment for both patients and the family members
  • Gaining experience in the medical management of complex patients with chronic health issues
  • Attending to physical examinations of unwell patients and escalating accordingly
  • Working collaboratively with medical and allied health staff to ensure positive outcomes for unwell patients
  • Devising shift planners and implementing them on the ward to assist with time management
  • Ability to work within a team and independently


Registered Nurse (New Grad)

Concord Centre For Mental Health
02.2018 - 08.2018
  • Six-months experiencing working with individuals experiencing first episodes of acute mental illness
  • Experiencing working within a multidsciplinary team to create holistic care plans for patients with complex mental health needs
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
  • Managed care from admission to discharge.
  • Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.

Education

Masters of Advanced Nursing Practice -

University of Newcastle
Newcastle, NSW

Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing -

University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW
10.2022

Bachelor of Nursing (Minor in Mental Health) -

University of Notre Dame Australia
Sydney, NSW
04.2018

Skills

  • Able to adapt to a multitude of clinical situations and scenarios due to my background in ED and after completion of the Advanced GI program at RPA
  • Comfortable in undertaking independent clinical assessments and escalating to the appropriate clinician
  • Comfortable with complex high care patients with invasive medical devices (Central lines, open abdomens, NPWT, Vascath's)
  • Keen in providing education to those who are keen and junior

References

  • Belinda Errington

Intestinal Failure Medical Lead/Consultant 

0422 159 763


  • Jennifer Seo

Registered Nurse/Colleague 

0430 177 782

Timeline

Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
08.2023 - Current

Registered Nurse

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
02.2022 - Current

Registered Nurse, Emergency Department

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
08.2019 - 02.2022

Registered Nurse

Concord Centre For Mental Health
02.2019 - 08.2019

Registered Nurse (New Grad)

Canterbury Hospital
08.2018 - 02.2019

Registered Nurse (New Grad)

Concord Centre For Mental Health
02.2018 - 08.2018

Masters of Advanced Nursing Practice -

University of Newcastle

Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing -

University of Technology Sydney

Bachelor of Nursing (Minor in Mental Health) -

University of Notre Dame Australia

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