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Professional activities

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE

  • Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN)
    • Management Committee member (Victorian Branch 2008-)
    • National Board member and Director (2009-2014)
    • Victorian President (2011-2014)
    • Scientific Chair (nursing) and member of the organising committee for the ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, 2010
    • Member of organising committee for the ACCCN 13th Institute of Continuing Education Critical Care Nursing, Melbourne, 2012
    • Chair, ICU nurse staffing standards working party, 2012-2014
  • Australian College of Midwives (ACM)
    • ACM representative on National Blood Authority committee to develop national guidelines on blood product use in obstetrics (2012 - 2014)
    • ACM representative on Australian Commission for Safety and Quality Maternal Sentinel Events and Post Partum Haemorrhage Working Group (2013 - )
    • Member of the International Confederation of Midwives Research Advisory Network – peer reviewed abstracts for the 30th Triennial Congress held in Prague, 2014
  • Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA) (organization now Australian College of Nursing)
    • Representative of RCNA as a clinical advisor on the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinical Technical Group for the National Casemix and Classification Centre (NCCC) (2010 - 2012)
  • Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ)
    • Judge of ‘new investigator’ awards at the National Congress
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ)

UNAFFILIATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2001-
Victorian Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Sub-Committee of the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity.

2003-2008
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Advisory Committee on Maternal Mortality.

2006-2009 
Haemostasis Registry, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Monash University – obstetric sub-committee. 

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

2014 - 
Honorary Senior Fellow
Department of Nursing
The University of Melbourne

2015 -
Honorary Research Fellow
Judith Lumley Research Centre
La Trobe University

2014 - Honorary Researcher
Mercy Health 

SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE

2014 
PhD – co-supervisor (on-going – La Trobe University)

2013
PhD – co-supervisor (on-going – La Trobe University)
PhD – co-supervisor (on-going – The University of Melbourne)

2012
Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner Candidate – clinical project) – Principal supervisor (completed – La Trobe University)

2011
Master of Nursing (minor thesis) – Principal supervisor (completed – La Trobe University)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Chief Investigator

  1. Case-control study of mechanical ventilation in pregnant/postpartum women and non- pregnant/postpartum women with H1N1 influenza.
  2. Pattern and rate of massive transfusion for obstetric haemorrhage.
  3. Need for, and analysis of, a modular maternal critical care education program.
  4. Development of a severity of preeclampsia score.
  5. Influenza vaccination uptake during pregnancy.

Associate Investigator

  1. The Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System (AMOSS) – NHMRC funded national study on rare and serious disorders of pregnancy; prospective survey of six initial conditions in all hospitals in Australia and New Zealand with over 50 births pa. The initial conditions were: amniotic fluid embolism, antenatal pulmonary embolism, morbid obesity, eclampsia, placenta accrete, peripartum hysterectomy and influenza A requiring ICU admission (CIA Professor Elizabeth Sullivan).
  2. Survey on the use of early warning charts in maternity areas (CIA A/Prof Scott Simmons).
  3. Massive Transfusion Registry Obstetrics Special Interest Group (Massive Transfusion Registry CIA A/Prof Erica Wood)
  4. Comparison of neonates receiving Nasal CPAP in a tertiary and non-tertiary centre (CIA Helen Patterson)