Tracy O’Sullivan

Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

• Proficient in all aspects of care within the context of a critical care patient
• Graduate Nurse Support & Education: I provide comprehensive support and education to graduate nurses, ensuring their successful transition into clinical practice through mentoring and guidance.
• Facilitate & Deliver Educational Tutorials: I design and conduct educational tutorials that effectively enhance the knowledge and skills of nursing staff, fostering continuous professional development.
• Manage all aspects of a 10-bed ICU unit.
• Manage complex cardiac surgical patients.
• Regularly manage ventilated patients
• Demonstrated ability to manage time and competing priorities to achieve quality outcomes.
• Directly monitor patients' post-surgical procedures
• Contribute to a cohesive team environment.
• Manage pre-and post-operative stages of patients' care.
• Adapt to different requirements of patient care across different areas, disease stages, and lifespans.
• Involved in discussions and introduction of palliative care to patients and family members.
• Participate in family meetings and effectively communicate care changes and needs.
• Administer patient medications following all safety protocols.
• Assess patient progress or deterioration using critical thinking.
• Apply critical thinking to ensure the best outcomes for patients.
• Provide leadership within the ICU unit, guiding and supporting staff.
• Coordinate care for patients with complex needs
• Coordinate admissions and discharges with relevant wards, including theatres and general wards.
• Manage emergency admissions to the ICU and coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams.
• Attend MET calls within the hospital to coordinate ICU admissions when necessary.
• Provide support and guidance to families as needed.
• Ensure excellence in patient care and safety while supporting the team.
• Proficient in managing ventilated patients.
• Utilize critical thinking in all aspects of care.
• Prepare patients and family members for complex procedures.
• Provide direct post-surgical care.
• Manage cardiac patients immediately post-surgery until discharge from ICU
• Interpret cardiac rhythms and ICU monitoring.
• Collaborate within the multidisciplinary ICU team.
• Educate and support junior staff and student nurses.
• Supervise, assess, and provide feedback to undergraduate nursing students.
• Facilitate graduate and student nurses in the ward and ICU environment
• Performance Management: I implement performance management strategies to assess and enhance the performance of nursing teams, ensuring high standards of patient care and professional growth.

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• Able to work well autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent leadership skills
• Strong multitasking, time management, and organizational abilities
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and thrives on challenges.
• Builds and maintains positive interpersonal connections with multidisciplinary teams and colleagues.

• Jayde Ashall, Nurse Educator
• Michelle Jordan
• Paula Pianta, Nurse Educator

• Basic Life Support Assessor
• Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation trainer
• Assisted with development of Enrolled Nurse Transition Package
• Assisted with planning new ideas for Graduate nursing orientation days
• Trainer
• Ventilation competency
• Intravenous Cannulation
• Porta-cath competency
• Basic and Advanced Life Support
• Insertion of an Indwelling Catheter (Male and Female)
• ECT- Respiratory Failure Nursing Seminar
• Dialysis

• Employee of the year award
• Recognition of service Lavarack Baracks