Experience

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  Adventist HealthCare Limited (Aus)

  • Australia
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Clinical Informatics Manager

    • Jun 2022 - Present

  • Clinical Informatics Specialist / Project Manager /RN

    • May 2014 - Jul 2022

    In 2014 I joined the broader clinical informatics team at Sydney Adventist Hospital which oversees and deploys our homegrown software (SanCare) throughout our campus. We continue to strive to be a fully electronic site and have implemented our homegrown solution to nearly every aspect of our hospital. During this period I have been doing some Project Management as time allows. My projects include:Upgrading our Wifi infrastructure from Cisco to Avaya.Working with Philips and AGFA to deploy a solution to make reporting of 12 lead ECG's wireless and integrated into the e-Health record.Working with US vendors Sotera in the Australian first trial and implementation of their wireless and fully portable patient monitoring system (VISI Mobile). Deploying RFID scanners, readers and tags. This included sub projects to track assets and patient movements, allow for staff authentication to access the e-Health record via software vendors that were able to interface with our Microsoft Active Directory database.In 2015 we moved to our brand new ICU in the newly built Clark Tower and went from a 14 bed to a 30 bed ICU. During this time I was tasked as the liaison between IT and nursing and deploying/testing pre-existing and new hardware and software solutions. I'm currently still a Registered Nurse and do regular education with our staff on the clinical systems and train any new users including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and the rest of the allied health team.

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  Sydney Adventist Hospital

  • Clinical Application Specialist / RN

    • Jan 2009 - May 2014

    In 2009 my career focus changed as I was given an opportunity to work on an electronic health record for the ICU/CCU from iMD Soft called MetaVision and was one of 3 people to help customize the software for use in our hospital. Initially, I was only working on the project part time and the system went live in October 2010. My role included interfacing devices from multiple vendors (Philips, Drager, Datascope, GE, AGFA, etc) and our own Health Information Service (HL7 messages via Microsoft Biz Talk), working with our in house Information Services department, the multidisciplinary health team and writing basic VB scripts which I picked up along the way. Varying reports, graphs, medications, orders, tables, etc were made for each layout. We used thin clients via VM views at our bedsides as well as a portable computer on wheels for clinicians. Our implementation was used as reference site for Samsung and VM Ware. Different layouts were customized for ICU & CCU as they had differing workflows. Our database was used as a reference site for Queensland Health who also is in the process of rolling out the same system state wide as well as two private hospitals (in Sydney and Canberra) and another state hospital in the Australian Capitol Territory), Western Australia, the Northern Territory & other hospitals internationally in the US and Europe. New South Whales state health has since decided to deploy this solution throughout the ICU's statewide and we have once again asked to be a reference site to them and we have collaborated and shared insights on our road map. Early in 2011 I became the clinical lead of the program and became the MetaVision Application Specialist on a full-time basis.

  • Clinical Unit Manager ICU

    • May 2007 - Dec 2008

    In 2007 I took on the role of ICU Clinical Nurse Unit Manager and continued in this role until the later part of 2008. My roles included overseeing rosters, setting and delivering on KPI's and meeting budgetary requirements. During this period we achieved our highest occupancy rate and highest total patient admissions and added new beds to meet the demands to our services as well as bringing on additional human resources to the team.

  • ICU/CCU RN

    • Aug 2004 - May 2007

    I began work in this ICU, which has a Cardiothoracic focus, in 2004 because I hoped to increase my knowledge in this specialty.Taking on the duties as Team Leader/Shift Coordinator the next year, I lent my input into the treatment of Neuro patients having come from a large tertiary institution that was the trauma center for the western part of Sydney. I was appointed to the OH&S committee as one of the employee representatives and received training as such and I continue on in that capacity currently and have been the committee secretary for the past 3 years.At this time I did a 3 month rotation in Emergency Care as part of my ongoing education and worked closely with Coronary Care as we would overflow our ICU patients to them at times and also they would overflow into the ICU if needed.

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  Westmead Hospital

  • Registered Nurse ICU

    • Jan 2000 - May 2003

    ACLS Registered Nurse in the ICU, I would help mentor students and Nurses in their pursuit of also becoming ICU trained and qualified as part of Westmead's internal mentorship program. I carried the arrest pager as part of my responsibilities. I also trained briefly in the Operating Room as a scrub and scout Nurse as well as a general surgical ward (Upper & Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery) that had overflow patients from other disciplines such as Head, Neck, Breast, & Plastic Surgery and minor Orthopedic cases.