Wendy Bladwell

Operational Management of BMDAMH & Springwood Hospitals after hours.

Emergency Management & Disaster Committee Chair.

NETS serves over 250 hospitals in NSW/ACT - I held numerous roles throughout 20 years of service including Acting NUM, NETS Coordinator & Retrieval Nurse.

Proven ability to provide leadership & manage resources within the NETS organisation & outreach facilities.

Consultation with other health professionals & managers in both referring & receiving hospitals, allocating resources, managing limited vehicles & aircraft, organising NETS teams working across NSW, and augmenting retrieval teams with specialists such as ENT and Neurosurgeons.

The leadership team for the foundation work in establishing a dedicated Neonatal & Paediatric ECMO service.

Retrieval nurse for neonatal and paediatric patients. domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities included managing domestic and internation end-to-end medical retrievals and logistics.

This included pre-retrieval preparation and planning, liasison with travel insurance & assistance companies, coordination between hospitals, ground ambulance transfers, international flight clearances, custom and security clearances and the provision of critical care to adults requiring international repatriation to Australia.

Casual pool nurse for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Responsibilities included provision of care to ventilated paediatric/neonatal patients including those patients receiving EMCO, LVAD, transplantation and major burns patients.

Nov 1994-Dec 1997 Worked in the Emergency Department at RAHC at Camperdown and moved with the hospital to the Westmead site in 1995. Obtained CNS.

Dec 1997- March 1999 Worked in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

March 1999 - Oct 2002 Worked in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Student midwife and midwife at Campbelltown hospital.

New Graduate Program.