Curriculum Vitae. Referees: Sarah E Whereat (formerly Morton) 11 Mimosa Avenue, Wentworth Falls, NSW 2872

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1 Curriculum Vitae Sarah E Whereat (formerly Morton) 11 Mimosa Avenue, Wentworth Falls, NSW 2872 Referees: Ms Veronica McCartan Nurse Unit Manager Nepean Hospital, Intensive Care Unit Penrith, NSW, 2750 Telephone: (02) Professor Anthony McLean Director Intensive Care Medicine Nepean Hospital, Intensive Care Unit Penrith, NSW, 2750 Telephone: Professor M Peek Associate Dean, Nepean Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine Telephone: (02) Dr Louise Cole Sub Dean-Education, Nepean Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine Telephone: (02) Sarah Whereat Page 1

2 EDUCATION Currently enrolled PhD University of Sydney( Education of medical students in Intensive Care Medicine in Australia and New Zealand. Degrees: University of Sydney, Masters of Education University of Sydney, Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education), University of New England, Graduate Diploma of Science (with thesis), University of New England, Graduate Diploma of Health Management, University of New England, Bachelor of Nursing, Certificates: Certificate 4 - Work Place Training and Assessment, Queen Victoria Medical Centre - Midwifery Certificate, Royal Melbourne Hospital - Intensive Care Certificate, Cairns Base Hospital - General Training, Schooling: Gordonvale High School Completed Year 12, Community Activity: Blue Mountains Cancer Help, Committee Member since Rotary member, since Sarah Whereat Page 2

3 EXPERIENCE Current Employment: Stage Two and Print Coordinator and Skills Educator - GMP, University of Sydney. -Commenced 24/1/2005, part-time, Full time from March 2009 Registered Nurse and Research Officer - Intensive Care Unit, Nepean Hospital. -Commenced 9/2/05 Part time Clinical Skills Educator And Stage Two Co-ordinator, University of Sydney, Graduate Medical Program, Nepean Clinical School: The role involves presenting education on a variety of clinical skills to the medical students in all years, and co-coordinating the tutorials and special event days, for year two medical students and Stage three programs both in Perinatal and Women s rotation and the PreINT program. Coordination of Curriculum requirements for Stage Two Medical students. Involves extensive liason across the area Medical staff and University Medical employees to facilitate Tutorials and special events. Member of Evaluation, Procedural skills, and PRINT committee Medical faculty. Representative Educator of the Feasibility Study: Health Care Simulated Skills training Steering Group, for the Department of NSW 2006 producing Back ground and Options Paper and Study Report. Involved in the working parties for Procedural Skills, Personal Professional Development, Critical Care and the Surgery Block for the University of Sydney s Graduate Medical Program, as part of the Curriculum Review at the University of Sydney in Co-authored Critical Care and Surgical Block Objectives, for the Critical Care and Surgery Block working party. Member of Skills Educators Working Party, reviewing content of each skill taught to medical students. Coordinated the TIES grant application for video conferencing at Nepean Clinical School. Lecturer and examiner (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) for the Extended Care Paramedics program. Interviewer for future medical students (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011), and OSCE examiner for medical students (2007). Sarah Whereat Page 3

4 Research Officer, ICU, Nepean Hospital: -Commenced 23/5/05, to August 2011 Research studies involved in as Research Coordinator: -NICE (Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation) primary responsibility -CAPTIVATE (Efficacy of Tifacogen administration in subjects with severe Community Acquired Pneumonia) -LICI (Levosimendan in the Critically Ill patient, with unstable haemodynamics) -VALID (Venticute in severe acute lung failure) -RENAL -Early Parental Nutrition -PROTECT -AROUSE -Candida Research Studies involved in as Co-investigator: -Iodine in Intensive care Patients -Review of Australia and New Zealand s ICU s education of Undergraduate medical students, Publications Chew, MS, Hawthorne WJ, Bendall J, Whereat S, Huang S, Ting I, Simond D, McLean AS. No beneficial effects of levosimendan in acute porcine endotoxaemia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2011 Whereat SE, McLean AM. Survey of Current Status of Intensive Care teaching in Australia and New Zealand Medical Schools. Critical Care Medicine. Sept, 2011.( in Press) Sarah Whereat Page 4

5 Previous Employment: Nambour General Hospital, I held a number of positions during this time including that of Clinical Nurse, Acting Nurse Educator (ICU and Surgical), Registered Nurse and Clinical Lecturer for Queensland University of Technology. I commenced employment at Nambour General Hospital in July 1998 initially working on the hospital pool. However, my main experience during this time was in the Intensive Care Unit. ICU Registered Nurse Level 1: -From January 1999 onwards Nambour General Hospital intensive care unit is a busy 14 bed unit, helping a wide range of clients. During this time I acted in various higher positions including as a Clinical Nurse and also as an educator for the unit. My experience in this role included: - The management of critically ill patients. - As both Floor Coordinator and Team Leader: 1. Roles that requires a high standard of patient care and depth of knowledge, to enable one to assist all other staff in their care of their patients. 2. The ability to use time available to educate other staff in the use of the equipment, and to guide them when making clinical decisions. 3. The wider perspective of making decisions about workplace health and safety issues, quality issues and issues that impact on the whole shift, as well as the ability to bring these issues to the attention of the team leader. 4. The ability to take on the team leader role for meal relief - Communication with the relatives of patients. - Coordinating family and clinical discussions with medical and other members of the team. - To assist with any social needs that may be required by the families of patients. - To act as a role model for all colleagues. I participated in additional activities, for example, I was an Impact Member (Infection control), Chairman of the Palliative and Long Stay Committee and also relieved in the Stores and Equipment role. I gave educational presentations on: - Policy and procedure writing. - Preceptor for Student and Registered Nurses. Clinical Nurse: -Both acting position, then permanently from 2000 My experience included a continuation of all activities undertaken as a level 1, as well further responsibilities such as: - Team Leading: The management of 10 to 11 staff and all the care of the patients, ensuring safe and excellent care for all the patients, staff and visitors. - Assisting the Workplace Health and Safety Officer. - Impact Representative: In this role completed audits and educational presentations. - Chairman of the Working Party for Palliative and Long Stay Patients. Sarah Whereat Page 5

6 - Clinical lecturer for QUT in 2003 and Acting Nurse Educator: -I relieved both the ICU educator and the Surgical Ward educator during the last three years of my time at Nambour General Hospital As the ICU Educator I was responsible for many things including: - The direct support and educational needs and requirements of up to staff within the unit. - The 8-10 staff completing the Intensive Care Transition Program, which includes the clinical (CPAT) assessments of these students. - Conducting the educational sessions at Nambour General Hospitals mandatory orientation. - Coordinating and conducting a wide range of in-service needs for a multidisciplinary forum, using a wide range of educational strategies such as telemedicine, one on one education and power point presentations. - Coordinating Nambour General Hospitals refresher program. - Organising the placement of undergraduate students within Intensive Care, and assisting them in reaching their educational goals. - Preceptor for Registered Nurses during their Postgraduate placement. As the Surgical Division Educator I was responsible for: - Meeting the ongoing educational requirements as they arose within the surgical division at Nambour General Hospital (NGH). - Conducting the educational sessions at NGHs mandatory orientation. - The research, authoring and presentation of power point education sessions. - Ongoing assessment of basic life support throughout Nambour General Hospital. Noosa District Private Hospital, January June 1998 Nurse Unit Manager The role involved the coordination of clinical nurses for a 24 Surgical/ Orthopaedic Ward and 10 bed Surgical Day procedure unit. General duties included: - Relieving the Director of Nursing for annual leave and call. - Roster preparation. - Appraisals, using the NCES system for assessing competency, developed by the PHAQ, I also had involvement in the 1996 revision of the system. - Managing the budget for Surgical and Day Procedures. - The implementation and coordination of the patient dependency system for the hospital. - Policy and procedure formulation for the two units, as well as coordinating the hospitals Nursing Policy and Procedures. - Quality activities for the surgical and day procedure units. - Implementation of the clinical Pathways and Patient education for the Surgical Ward. - EQUIP implementation within the ward setting. - Stomal therapy resource. - Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation assessor. Sarah Whereat Page 6

7 Committee involvement at Noosa District Hospital: - Secretary for Pharmacy Committee. - Coordinator of review process of Nursing Appraisal System, Coordinator of Clinical Pathways. - Coordinator of some hospital Total Quality Management activities. - Coordinator of Policy and Procedure committee. - Member of the Management for Quality Committee. - Member of the Workplace Health and Safety Committee. -Member of the State Working Party for NCES revision, 1996/1997. Wee Waa District Health Service -33 beds, Nursing Unit Manager and Education Officer, Role included, Policy and Procedure formulation, Total Quality Management, Budget preparation for Nursing staff, both for Hospital and Community Health, Education Policy formulation for Barwon Health District, Post Graduate Education for Transitional Nurses, Relieving the Director of Nursing and was a member of the Occupational Health and Safety committee. Full-time position ( ) as level 1 Registered Nurse, which included general nursing, midwifery, community nursing, education and relieving for the Director of Nursing. Part-Time ( ) position as Level 1 Registered Nurse, with duties as for full-time position. Coonamble District Hospital -44 beds, Deputy Director of Nursing Role included general nursing duties as well as Midwifery, Administration, Stores Ordering, Policy and Procedure formulation and relieving of the Director of Nursing. Culcairn District Hospital -14 beds, Deputy Director of Nursing General nursing duties as well as Midwifery, Administration, Stores Ordering, Policy and Procedure formulation and relieving of the Director of Nursing. Royal Melbourne Hospital Worked as a Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care, Renal, and Cardio-thoracic units. Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Renal Technician for a total of 8 months. Cairns Base Hospital Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit. Sarah Whereat Page 7

8 Educational Presentations Organised or on the Organising Committee for: - Palliative Care in the Intensive Care, Long Stay Patients in the Intensive Care, Combined Critical Care Conference, Queensland, Presentations: - Surgical Wounds at Wound Care Conference, Skin Grafts at Wound Care Meeting, PAIS in-service to all new staff at Noosa District Private Hospital. - Blood Pressure Study, both by telemedicine and at State ICU Educators Conference, Cleaning Techniques, Why Do Them, Impact presentation for both the meeting and ICU Staff, Multi Resistant Organisms, Impact presentation for the meeting and for ICU Staff, Blood Pressure Study, Combined Critical Care Conference, Introduction to NICE, Nepean Intensive Care, Evaluations, Western Clinical School retreat, Changes for Students, Western Clinical School retreat, Nice study, Neuro and Trauma Course, Westmead Hospital, Development of a Model of Clinical Skill Acquisition and Promotion of Consistent Skill Retention, Clinical Skills Conference, Prato (Italy), Research in ICU, Research Group, Nepean Hospital, Update on NICE Study, Nepean Hospital, Research Methodologies, University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital, Issues arising from the Iodine deficiency in Intensive care, where to from here A Survey on the teaching commitments in the medical school by intensivists Nepean Hospital, 2008,2010 Conferences and Further Education Research Coordinators Day. - Clinical Trials Group, ANZIC s Noosa meeting 2010: Clinical Reasoning Nursing school Institute of Technology Sydney. Simulated Learning Environment Workshop Strategic Planning in Sydney Medical School 2009: Final meeting NICE and RENAL Study Final Unit Masters of Education 2008: Completing Masters of Education: Units being - Designing a Research Proposal, Sarah Whereat Page 8

9 - Professional Portfolio - Learning, Knowing and Thinking. - Clinical trials group meeting, researchers and main meeting, Noosa in March and in Sydney during October. - Nepean Clinical School Retreat. - Iodine Conference, at the Science Centre, Canberra. - Dangerous Goods Safety Certificate. - ANZIC s Conference in Sydney during October and November. 2007: - Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education), Sydney University. - Nepean Clinical School Retreat. - Health Education Conference, University of Sydney Health Faculty, Terrigal. - Teaching Learning and Assessing Clinical Skills: Does One Size Fit All? Second International Clinical Skills Conference, Prato, Italy. 2006: - RENAL start up meeting, Sydney. - Nepean Clinical School Retreat. - ICE conference, Melbourne. - Advanced Life Support Instructors Course. - Research Coordinators Day. - Clinical Trials Group, ANZIC s meeting. 2005: - Health Education Conference, for Sydney University Health Faculty, Terrigal. - CAPTIVATE Meeting, Hayman Island. - Western Clinical School Retreat. - Orientation Nepean Hospital. - Orientation Sydney University. - Interview training, Sydney University Medical Faculty. 2004: - Inaugural World Congress, Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. - The Inaugural Centaur Nursing Research Symposium. - The 11 th Combined Critical Care Conference. - Re-certified ALS. - The Inaugural Critical Care Basic Science Symposium. - ICE Conference, 6-7 May. - ICU Research Coordinators Interest Group, Training and Information Exchange Day. Sarah Whereat Page 9

10 Prior to 2003: - Impact Seminar and Meetings. - Drager In-service. - Fammis Training. - Completed Graduate Diploma of Science (with thesis), Respiratory, Cardiac and Blood Physiology, Introduction to Experimental Surgery and Thesis (Blood Pressure Study). - 2nd year of Graduate Diploma of Science, Genetics, Biochemistry 1 and 2 and Renal and Gastro Physiology. - Re-certified in Advanced Life Support. - Preceptorship course. - Part day of Impact Seminar. - ANZICS/ACCCN Conference. - General Ward in-services. - Chemistry and Biology, Semester 1 and Semester 2 at University of New England. - Certificate 4 in Workplace Training and Assessment. - Fammis and Lattice. - Dialysis and Kimal Machine. - ARDS: Airway Management. - Head Injury. - Cardioversion. - Advanced Life Support, 1 day. - Wound Care association meetings with education sessions. - PAIS/Hibscus, 1 day. - Orthopaedic Course, 2 days. - Wound Care Conference, 1 day. - Wound Care Association monthly meetings, with 1.5 hour education sessions. - Law for Nurses, Oncology Conference, Competencies, ACHS Charter for Change and Continuum of Care, Clinical Care Pathways, 1996 and Orthopaedic Workshop, Advanced Cardiac Skills, General Intensive Care Update, 1986 and Accident and Emergency Nursing, Respiratory Intensive Care, Recruitment and Selection of Staff, Occupational Health and Safety Accreditation Certificate, Total Quality Management, Midwifery Updates, 1985 and Sarah Whereat Page 10