1)A senior Paediatric intensive care nurse with a vast wealth of experience in teaching hospitals. Both in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UK and Australia
2)Nursing supervisors experience at Starship Children’s Hospital having set up the 24hours duty managers service there.
3)5 years of commercial pharmaceutical experience as well 4)Adult intensive care nurse prior to transferring to Paediatrics 5)Intensive care medicine experience with Paediatric and previous adult intensive care environments
6)Current position is as an RN running the ADHD and Eating disorder clinics for Children’s Mental Health services in Hawkes Bay New Zealand Also working as an RN in the adult/adolescent mental health inpatient unit
7)Patient-oriented Nurse with forty years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision and department operations. Skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments. Offering expertise with ICU and Community Children's Mental Health specialty.
1) Manage the ADHD clinics with psychiatric consultants
physical and metabolic measurements
initiating appropriate medications (with psychiatrist's input)
referral to other clinicians if they require other therapy
2) Eating Disorders clinic
metabolic monitoring including BMI measurements
physical observations,taking bloods and following up on results
Initiating hospital admissions based on collected evidence and
Starship children's hospital guidelines
3) Managing Autistic Spectrum Disorder clients that required both complex intervention due to behavioural and functional
challenges
4) Involved with Early Psychosis Clients as support to the Early Psychosis team