Pam Smith

• Organisation wide role
• Coordinate PDRP, assess PDRP, coach nursing on ePortfolio, create ePortfolio teaching resource. Working on workflow checkpoints to improve process for staff. Established sustainable plan for PDRP assessors
• Workforce planning involvement with clinical leadership team.
• Participate in PEAC twice per year
• Coordinate new graduate and student placements.
• Coach students on day 1 hospital orientation
• Plan education sessions
• Set priorities and problem-solved workflow issues to maintain rapport with staff and managers.
• Coordinate Clinical Orientation for Allied, Nursing, Anaesthetic and unregistered staff
• Lead resuscitation framework for hospital providing CORE Advanced, Basic Life Support and GP sessions. Arrange funding for equipment.
• Governance of elearning catalogue
• Create elearning modules
• Coach clinical managers in using reports effectively
• Lead hospital medicines audit
• Network with Health NZ experts
• Update policy & Guidelines
• Chair IV Link group
• Develop IV education framework and perform gap analysis of IV pathway. Lead quality improvement work, driving involvement from area IV Link
• Aim for data driven decisions

District wide role, traveling to Lakes to roll out modules, working with teams in Invercargill. leading module roll out. Organise study days. Coach staff with quality improvement in areas. Work with quality improvement and assurance teams, collaborative approach with HQSC initiatives. Drive hospital wide quality improvement projects. Drive hospital wide international movements e.g. #endPJParalysis. Drive medication safety initiatives. Coach area staff and leaders (medication safety, bedside handover). Create hospital wide information leaflets e.g. Sit Up, Get Dressed, Keep Moving. Participate in area huddles and leadership meetings. Report successes and barriers to chief nurse and commissioners.

CPR instructor, upgraded anaphylaxis tool for district nursing. Present SSKIN Pressure Injury Prevention talk and other training on Wound Care Study Day with wound care specialist. Coordinate in service training. Coach new staff in the home setting. Drive staff towards provision of peer to peer education sessions. Coach staff to complete PDRP. Ensure compliance training has been completed and check for barriers.

Role model and provide education for peers. Influence at organisational/national level taking turn at on call out of hours service. Lead nurse for Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals patient group, meeting with nutrition team to arrange discharge, at times complex. Provision of risk assessments to ensure safe storage of medicines, safety of patients, family and team members in the short and long term. Quality improvement through standardisation of documentation system for this group of patients. Educate patients, family and new staff on the care of CVADS and safe administration of S/C & IV therapies, in the home setting. Robust communication and de-escalation skills. Patient assessment and escalation of care.

Assessment skills including MUST

Compliance with safeguarding, creation of patient centred plans of care

Led family meetings, participated in interdisciplinary team meetings

Medicines administration with certification requirements for the home care setting

Shift coordinator, care of HDU patient, orientation of new staff to HDU. Advanced assessment skill. Recognition of the deteriorating patient. Autonomous role. IPC representative. MDT meetings and discharge planning, Provision of emotional support to family and patients. De-escalation skills. Monitor effects of medicines.

In charge of 44 bed acute surgical admissions ward. Coaching and education of staff. Attend ward round daily, Manual handling representative, Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, complex discharge, liaison with community services. Acute assessment skills.

Nursing roles in a variety of settings throughout Aberdeen, mainly Aberdeen Royal Infirmary across surgical, medical and ICU settings.

Care of people with diverse cultural needs in the trauma, medical and surgical setting. Outback nursing requiring critical thinking and proactive approach. Ambulance service cover as needed.

Newly opened care of the elderly facility, taking charge, leading complex discharge, arrange education for newly formed workforce. Assessment skills, forward planning next stage of care, close involvement with alllied healthcare, working with and learning from one another.

21 bed HDU, nursing care of the complex surgical patient with gastrointestinal presentation. Education of new staff and patients. Participate in ward round. HDU skill set. Recognition of the deteriorating patient.

Newly qualified nursing role, caring for medical patients in an area specialising in diabetes and GI investigations. Caring for unstable patients in the medical setting. Taking charge of the ward. Participate in complex discharge planning and ward rounds.