Emma Burnell

· Advanced clinical assessment skills in history taking, physical examination, diagnostics, and clinical reasoning to generate differential diagnoses and evidence-based treatment plans.

· Practises in accordance with the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, Medicines Act 1981, Privacy Act 2020, and Nursing Council standards, ensuring safe and accountable practice.

· RN prescriber, improving timely access to treatment with strong pharmacological knowledge, safe prescribing practices, and use of up-to-date resources.

· Provides culturally safe, patient-centred care for diverse populations by respecting and integrating cultural beliefs.

· Works in partnership with Māori patients and whānau in diagnosis, chronic disease management, and medication self-management, applying Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles.

· Delivers holistic, patient-centred care by considering social determinants, lifestyle, and mental health alongside medical management.

· Implements health promotion strategies and education on lifestyle modification, medication adherence, and follow-up, empowering patients to take control of their health.

· PRIME practitioner supporting St John’s in advanced life support and emergency care for rural communities.

· Engages in quality improvement initiatives including prescribing and documentation audits, and practice policy evaluations to strengthen safety, efficiency, and quality of care.

· Actively participates in professional development through peer and case reviews and ongoing education to maintain evidence-based best practice.

· Collaborates effectively with practice and interprofessional teams to deliver coordinated, equitable, patient-focused care.

· Provides clinical leadership through mentoring, education, and training, contributing to the growth of advanced nursing practice and promotion of the nurse practitioner role.

- Provide an acute after hours and PRIME service for the Wanaka community.

- Integrating the experience listed above.

- Provide clinic and field based primary and emergency care to visitors and staff.

- Working at the top of the RN scope of practice with telephone support from the area GP and Greymouth ED.

- Providing advanced nursing care to a diverse community with a range of ethnicities and backgrounds in a rural and remote region.

- Providing District, Public Health, Primary care, Emergency & Acute, Community, and Mental Health nursing across the entire age range.

- Work alongside Ski Patrol to provide clinic and field based primary and emergency care to visitors and staff.

- Work alongside Ski Patrol to provide clinic and field based primary and emergency care to visitors and staff.

- Led young adults on a 19 day trek across Costa Rica and Nicaragua

- Support and educate young adults to become global citizens and with community and environmental projects

- Provide 24/7 medical support

- Autonomously assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat minor injuries within the emergency department.

- Order & interpret x-rays, manipulate and stabilise fractures, suture.

- Provide adult and paediatric emergency care in a large emergency trauma centre.

- Lead, manage and support a large team of nurses.

- Manage a team of nurses, conducting performance reviews, education and guidance.