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Contents Personal / Contact details p3 Qualifications and Professional Associations p4 Professional History p5 Public speaking Conference keynote (invited speaker) p6-7 Seminar (invited speaker) p8-9 Under / Post Graduate Nursing (sessional lecturer) p10 Short courses / workshops (invited speaker) p11-12 Session Topics p13 Abstracts Accepted p14 Poster Presentations p14
Publications p15
Research undertaken p16 Invited Expert / Committee / Reviewer p17-18 Life Long Learning / Professional Development p19 Conferences / Symposium Attended – Delegate p20 Community Service p21
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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Wendy Lee White DOB: 22/06/1961 Address: PO Box 4665
Lake Haven LPO Lake Haven NSW 2263
Telephone No: (0011 61] 02 4303 6982 (Home) (0011 61) 0400 994 726 (Mobile) Fax: (0011 61] 02 4392 0570 Email: [email protected] Nationality: Australian
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Qualifications: Bachelor of Education 2000 La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia Plastic Reconstructive & Microsurgical Nursing Certificate 1993 Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit Melbourne, Australia Registered General Nurse 1981 Sydney Adventist Hospital Australia
Current studies: Master of Wound Care (CANDIDATE) Monash University Victorian College of Pharmacy Melbourne Victoria Australia
Professional Associations:
Royal College of Nursing Australia
Association Advanced Wound Care (Current Representative for Oceania)
Advanced Wound Care Network
Australian Wound Management Association (Committee member Education and Professional development sub Committee 2006-2010)
Victorian Wound Management Association of Australia
(till 2007 - Past President and Executive Committee member Victorian Association) NSW Wound Care Association ( 2007 – present day)
Hunter Wound Interest Group [NSW] ( 2007 – present day)
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Professional History:
Nurse Consultant & Educator (Private Practice) Director - Wendy White Woundcare, NSW Australia Clinical, Educational & Consultancy Services (July 2007 – current) Clinical Nurse Consultant / Lecturer – NSW Branch Wound Foundation of Australia, Monash University (Feb 2007 – July 2007) Clinical Nurse Consultant / Lecturer - Head office, Melbourne, Victoria Wound Foundation of Australia, Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University (Feb 2006 – Dec 2006) Course Co-ordinator Post Graduate Studies in Wound Care (‘Management of Chronic Wounds’ and ‘Dressings’) Monash University Melbourne (Jan 2006 – Dec 2006) Clinical Advisor Post Graduate Studies in Wound Care (‘Management of Chronic Wounds’ and ‘Dressings’) Monash University Melbourne (Feb 2005 – Jan 2006) Clinical Nurse Consultant / Educator Wound Foundation of Australia [contract] (Jan 2005–Jan 2006) Clinical Nurse Consultant - Chronic Wound Service / In patient (PT) Royal Melbourne Hospital: Royal Park Campus (Dec 2004 –Dec 2006)
Clinical Consultant / Project Officer Integrated Wound Management Service Royal District Nursing Service Melbourne (Feb 2004 –Nov 2004)
Clinical Consultant / Educator Wound Care ConvaTec (South Pacific) Bristol-Myers Squibb (AUST) Ltd (Feb 2000 –Nov 2003)
Clinical Consultant / Educator Wound Care ConvaTec (Australia) Bristol-Myers Squibb (AUST) Ltd (Feb 1999 –Feb 2000)
Clinical Consultant Wound Care ConvaTec (Victoria)
Bristol-Myers Squibb (AUST) Ltd (June 1998 - Feb 1999) Clinical Nurse Consultant Wound Management Clinic
The Northern Hospital Melbourne Australia (Jan 1998 – June 1998)
Clinical Nurse Consultant Wound Management Clinic Preston & Northcote Community Hospital Melbourne Australia (Jan 1994 – Jan 1998)
Clinical Nurse Specialist: Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit
Preston & Northcote Community Hospital Melbourne Australia (Jan 1991 – Jan 1994)
Registered Nurse Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit [Surgical Ward and Operating Theatre]
Preston & Northcote Community Hospital Melbourne Australia (1987 - Jan 1991)
Registered Nurse Surgical / Medical Departments Melbourne (1982 – 1986) Graduated with Distinction General Nursing Training [Division 1] Sydney Adventist Hospital (1978 – April 1982)
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Public Speaking Conference keynote / invited speaker : • NSW Wound Care Association Conference Sydney Nov 2009 Invited speaker ‘Wound Related Pain: Are We Really Listening?’
An Australian perspective of a multinational study, examining the person’s experience of pain when living with a chronic wound
Invited workshop presenter / facilitator ‘Skin: An integrity not to be lost.’
• Hunter Wound Interest Group 11th Conference –Spring into Wound Care
Kurri Kurri NSW Sept 2009 Invited speaker ‘Chronic Wound Exudate: The good, the bad, but mainly the ugly’ ‘Volunteering in Nepal’ Invited joint workshop presenter / facilitator ‘Slough and stuff..Management of non viable tissue.’ • Austrauma National Conference Sydney 2009 Invited symposium presenter ‘Managing wound infection: Issues, Challenges and Solutions’ • Wounds UK National Conference Harrogate (UK) November 2008
Invited speaker panel symposium ‘Pain Assessment : A tool-kit for practitioners’
• National Vascular conference [Nurses] Adelaide Australia 2008 Key note speaker
‘Caring About Pain: Addressing the human cost of chronic venous insufficiency and ulceration’ ‘Debridement workshop”
• World Union Wound Healing Society 3rd Congress Canada June 2008
Invited speaker panel symposium ‘Wound related pain assessment and management’
• 6th Australian Wound Management Association National Conference, Darwin May 2008
Invited Speaker ‘Wound Related Pain: Seeing it from THEIR Perspective International survey of patients with chronic wounds: their experience of pain – Australian Results
• Hunter Wound Interest Group 10th Conference –Creating Wound History Newcastle May 2007 Invited speaker ‘Caring about Pain: Addressing the human cost of pressure ulcers’ • NSW Wound Care Association Conference –Becoming a Wound Wizard
Woolongong Nov 2007 Invited speaker ‘Caring for Pain’ • New Zealand Wound Care Society Conference – The ABC of Wound Healing
Queenstown Nov 2007 Key note speaker – Opening address ‘The Chronic Wound Environment’ Key note speaker ‘Minimising pain at Dressing Related Procedures’
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Public Speaking Conference keynote / invited speaker (cont): • New Zealand Wound Care Society Conference – The ABC of Wound Healing (cont)
Queenstown Nov 2007 Workshop Facilitator ‘Debridement’ • Ausmed Wound Management – Aged Care Conference for Nurses Melbourne Feb 2006 Invited speaker ‘Wound Management Documentation in Aged Care’ • New South Wales Wound Management Association State Conference Nov 2005 Invited speaker ‘Pain, what pain….’ Considerations and consequences of dressing related pain’. • Ausmed Wound Management – A Symposium for Nurses Melbourne Aug 2005 Invited speaker ‘Nursing Documentation of Wound Care’ • Ausmed Surgical & Orthopaedic Nursing Conference Melbourne May 2005 Invited speaker ‘Skin Integrity and the Surgical Nurse’ • Western Australia Wound Care and Infection Control Joint Conference Nov 2002 Key note speaker
‘Skin Tears: A descriptive study of the opinions, clinical practice and knowledge base of RNs caring for the aged in high care residential facilities in Australia.’
• Ausmed National Surgical Conference 2001 Invited speaker • Queensland Wound Management Association Twilight Seminar 2000 Invited speaker • Ausmed National Surgical Conference ‘On the Cutting Edge’ 1999 Invited speaker • Wound Management Association of Victoria Annual Conference 1997 Invited speaker [unable to attend] • Cosmetic Reconstructive Nurses Association Annual Conference 1997 Invited speaker • Infection Control Nurses Associate Annual Conference Nov 1996 Invited speaker
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Public Speaking Seminar invited speaker • National Wound Awareness Week 2010 10th March – ‘Wound Infection: An
Multidisciplinary Challenge. NSCCAH – Central Coast Wound Care Committee Invited speaker ‘Wound related pain and wound infection’ 25 minutes
• Hunter Wound Interest Group Meeting (1.5hrs) June 2009 Invited speaker ‘Wound Infection – Clinical practice that really matter’ ‘Volunteering in Nepal’
• National Venous Leg Ulcers and Compression (3M) 2008 - 2009 [Hunter, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne ] Invited guest speaker
• NSW Wound Care Association : Wound Awareness Week Public Forum (April 2009)
Invited guest speaker ‘What Wound Awareness Week Means to Me as a Clinician’
• AWMA Conference Dinner (Molnlycke Health Care) Darwin 2008 Invited guest speaker ‘Pain delayed wound healing: Something worth talking about. (1hr) • National Exudate Management Forum (ConvaTec) [Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne] Mar 2008 Invited guest speaker ‘WUWHS Consensus Document: Wound exudate & the role of dressings’ Versiva XC Evaluation NZ • Hunter Wound Interest Group Meeting June 2008
Invited speaker ‘Trauma Wounds - Skin Tears’ 1hr
• Hunter Wound Interest Group Meeting 2007
Invited speaker ‘Pain & the patient with a wound’ 1hr
• SA Wound Association 2006 Invited speaker
‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’ • Wound Management Association of Victoria (WMAV) 2006 [Metropolitan plus 2
regional meetings] Invited speaker ‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’
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Seminar invited speaker (cont)
• Tasmania Wound Association 2006 Invited speaker ‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’ • ACT Wound Group 2006 Invited speaker ‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’ • Key Clinical Leader 1 hr Melbourne Nov 2005 Invited speaker ‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’ • Bellarine Peninsula 2 hr presentation Aug 2005 Invited speaker ‘Dressing related pain: Considerations and Consequences’ • South Australian Wound Management Association Twilight Seminar 1999 Invited speaker • Wound Management Association of Victoria Twilight Seminar 1997 Invited speaker
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Under & Post Graduate Nursing Courses (Sessional Lecturer) • Undergraduate Nursing (2nd YR) – Sem 1 2010 (Newcastle University – wound management – 1hr) • Postgraduate Studies in Wound Care Victorian College of Pharmacy / Monash
University Semester 1 & 2, 2009. Semester 1, 2010 (Sessional lecturer (marker / oral examiner) – ‘Chronic wounds - 1105’ • Victorian Plastic Surgical Unit – 1994 - 1998 (Plastics Reconstructive and Microsurgical Nursing Certificate) • Australian Catholic University - 1998 - 2005 (Plastics Reconstructive and Microsurgical Nursing Diploma) (Emergency and Critical Care Nursing Diploma)
• Melbourne University – 2000 - 2001 (Ambulatory Care Post Graduate) • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Wound Management Post Graduate Certificate Course) • University of Newcastle - 2007 (Wound Management / Aged Care 2 hr Undergraduate Nurses Year 2) • University of Newcastle 2008 (Pharmacy - undergraduate)– Wound Management Overview )
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Short wound management courses / workshops - By Invitation 2010
Professional Development Program (2 days) April 2010 (NSW College of Nursing Sydney- Montefiore Aged Care Team) Invited speaker / facilitator
2010
• Professional Development Program ( 2 days) March 2010
(Manukau District Health Board New Zealand) Invited speaker / facilitator
‘Non Viable Tissue: Assessment & Management Options in Clinical Practice'
2009
• Hunter Valley Private Hospital (2hrs) Dec 2009 ‘Wound basics: acute vs chronic wound healing’
• Calvary Mater Hospital – Wound Champion Education Day (40min) Dec 2009
‘Wound exudate’
• 2009 series Nurse in General Practice Wound Management Education (NSW GP Divisions) 7hrs
each
• Phase 1: Central Coast / GP Access / New England / Hawksbury & Hills / Northern Rivers
• Phase 2: GP Access / Northern Rivers
• Phase 3: GP Access
• Education update 3M (2hrs) Oct 2009
‘Skin: An integrity not to be lost’
• One day Education Program (J&J) (7hrs) Oct 2009
‘Wound & Skin Care Fundamental Principles’
• One day Education Program (Smith & Nephew) (1.5hr) Oct 2009
‘Wound bed preparation and T. I. M.E’
• Half day Education Program ( Bright Sky) (4.5hrs) Sep 2009
‘Choosing the right wound dressing’
• Professional Development Program ( 2 days) Aug 2009
(Manukau District Health Board New Zealand) Invited speaker / facilitator
‘Non Viable Tissue: Assessment & Management Options in Clinical Practice'
• BUPA:
• Bateau Bay 4 x 3 hr sessions
• Waratah 1x2 hr session
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• Tamworth 2 part series Wound care [7hrs] Jan 2009
• Tinonee Gardens 16 x 1hr sessions
2008
• Amity Waratah – 4 part series Wound care [6hrs] April – Nov 2008
• Ausmed Pty Ltd – Wound Dressings One Day Session March 2008
• Corporate Training [J&J] 2008
2007
• Legs Alive Patient Support Group : Wound Related Pain 1 hr Dec 2007
• NZ Wound Care Society National Conference: Workshop: ‘Wound Debridement’ 1.5hrs Nov 2007
• NSW Wound Care Association: Skin Tear Workshop ‘Love the Skin They are In’
2 hr Nov 2007 • Alliance – Nurses in GP Practice Education Phase 1 Wound Care 1 Day Wagga Wagga and Central
Coast NSW & Newcastle Hunter Urban Division 2007
• Wound Foundation of Australia : GP Practice Clinical Update – Skin Tears [1hr]
• Royal College of Nursing Australia – National One Day Series 2007
• NSW, Tasmania, ACT, QLD
• Mundipharma Corporate Training Workshop [1hr]
• Independent Solutions One Day Introductory Program
• Corporate wound management training [Coloplast, J&J, MHC] Prior 2007
• Australian Nursing Federation [2 day wound management course] - Victoria
• Nursing Australia
• Wound Foundation of Australia – One day / 5 week and 9 week courses
• Health Care Concepts
• Mayfield Education Centre
• Tafe [SEN Training] –Metropolitan and Rural Victoria
• Ausmed Pty Ltd • Victorian Vascular Nurses Association
• South Australian Vascular Nurses Association
• Cosmetic Reconstructive Nurses Association
• Northern Division GP Practice – Practice Nurses Program
• Alfred Hospital 1 Day Course [Session Presenter]
• Sports Medicine Australia [Metropolitan and regional sessions x3]
• Private and Public Hospital Wound Care Seminars through out Australia / New Zealand / Sole
presenter 1 Day Seminars run by ConvaTec South Pacific
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Sessional Lecturing / Public Speaking [cont.] Session Topics Presented: • Body’s Response to Injury / Physiology of Acute Wound Healing
[Repair and Restoration] and delayed / inhibited healing
o The Chronic Wound Environment
• Systemic and Local Risk Factor Identification [Patient & Wound Assessment Skills]
• Lower Limb Ulceration [Assessment, Diagnosis and Management, including Sustained Graduation Compression in Venous Ulceration] incorporating NZ 1999 ‘Guidelines for the Management of
People with leg Ulcers’
• Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulceration [Pathophysiology, Prevention, Classification and
Management]
• Pressure Ulcer [Pathophysiology, Risk Assessment , Prevention and Management] incorporating
2001 Australian ‘Clinical Guidelines for the Prediction and Prevention Pressure Ulcers’
• Malodorous Wounds / Cavity Wounds / Highly Exuding Wound Management
• Minor Burns Assessment, Classification and Management and Scar management • Acute surgical and traumatic wounds management including Skin Grafts, Flap, Donor Site Care]
• Skin Tear Prevention, Assessment and Management [incorporating research findings [see
Publications]
• Infection and bioburden - what’s the big deal?
• Wound Assessment & Documentation [Digital photography / wound mapping / digital planimetry]
• Wound Debridement – Selection and implementation
• Evidence Based Wound Care
• Australian ‘Standards in Wound Management’ Workshop
• Dressing Product Selection – Right Product for Right Patient for Right Wound Workshop
• Clinical scenario / reflective practice workshops
• Pain and Trauma – Consideration and consequences of dressing related pain
• Caring about Pain and Pressure Ulcers
• Sports medicine and Wound Management
• Wound Management Documentation in aged care
• Palliative wounds – really seeing the patient
• Wound Dressings – where do they fit in?
• Pain delayed wound healing – something worth talking about
• Chronic wound exudate – good bad and ugly
• Skin: An integrity not to be lost
• ‘Safe’ wound care
• Wound bed preparation: Addressing local barriers to healing
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Abstracts Accepted / Paper Presentations • 7th Australian Wound Management Association National Conference, Perth WA
March 2010 ‘Assessing wound related pain for what it is: A multidimensional lived experience’ • 6th Australian Wound Management Association National Conference, Darwin 2008
– Invited Speaker ‘Wound Related Pain: Seeing it from THEIR Perspective International survey of patients with chronic wounds: their experience of pain – Australian Results • 5th Australian Wound Management Association Conference Hobart Canberra 2006 ‘Everybody Hurts Sometimes’ Breakfast Symposium – Guest Speaker • New South Wales Wound Care Association State Conference Nov 2005 ‘Pain, what pain….’ Considerations and consequences of dressing related pain’. • 2nd World Wound Healing Union Congress Paris 2004 ‘Skin Tears: A descriptive study of the opinions, clinical practice and knowledge base of RNs caring for the aged in high care residential facilities in Australia.’ • Western Australia Wound Care and Infection Control Joint Conference Nov 2002
Key note speaker ‘Skin Tears: A descriptive study of the opinions, clinical practice and knowledge base of RNs caring for the aged in high care residential facilities in Australia.’
Poster Presentations 7th Australian Wound Management Association National Conference, Perth WA March 2010
1. ‘Volunteering in Wound Management: Sharing and Learning Together’ 2. ‘Pressure irrigation: Wound cleansing that matters’ 3. ‘Debridement of non viable tissue: 10 Essential Steps for clinical practice’
• World Union of Wound Healing Societies Congress Melbourne Victoria 2000 W. White ‘Skin Tear Assessment and Management: The Role of Research and Education for registered nurses in Aged Care’. • Australian Wound Management Association National Conference QLD 1998 W. White ‘The utilisation of a model of care, risk assessment and documentation tool, in the clinical assessment and management of minor superficial and partial thickness burns in the outpatient setting’
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Publications White W. 2001. Skin tears: A descriptive study of the opinions, clinical practice and knowledge base of RNs caring for the aged in high care residential facilities. Primary Intention. 2001;9[4]:138-149 Price, P. Fagervik-Morton, H. Mudge, E. Beele, H. Ruiz, J. Nystrom,T. Lindholm,C. Meaume, S. Melby-Ostergaard, B. Peter, Y. Romanelli, M. Seppanen, S. Serena, T. Sibbald, G. Soriano, J. White, W. Wollina, U. Woo, K, Wyndham-White,C, Harding, K. Dressing related pain in patients with chronic wounds: an international patient perspective. International Wound Journal; 5:159-171
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Research 2008 Co-ordinator (Australia) pilot program [international – 5 countries] implementation of pain assessment in clinical practice [Presented findings at World Union Wound Healing Society Congress June 2008 - unpublished] 2007-2008 Australian co-ordinator international study [survey] patients with chronic wounds / pain part of study of 2,500 patients [Invited to present findings National Conference 2008 / State Conference 2009 Published June 2008] 2007 Clinical Coordinator (Corporate Sponsored) Product Evaluation in New Zealand Unpublished – Presented findings NZ 2007 and in 2008 - NSW, SA, QLD, WA, VIC 2005 – 2006 National study [survey] AWMA members re pain/ trauma at dressing change [Presented findings 2006 National conference / unpublished] 2000 A descriptive study of the opinions, clinical practice and knowledge base of RNs caring for the aged in high care residential facilities [Published 2001].
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Invited Expert / Committee Member / Reviewer • Invited member Johanna Briggs Wound Healing and Management Node (Expert Reference Group - international) April 2010 - current • Invited reviewer article x1 (by editor) Australian Wound Practice & Research Journal Feb 2010 • Invited member National Residential Care MRSA Control Measures- Guideline working group.
Healthcare Infection Control Special Interest Group (HICSI) Jan 2010 - current • Invited expert to scientifically assess Human Research Ethics Application for RCT - Northern
Sydney Central Coast Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) Jan 2010 - current • Invited expert Delphi approach study (UK researchers R. White & K. Cutting) to establish expert
opinion (30 experts from Europe, UK and USA) regarding the relationship of pain associated with wound infection. Nov 2009
• Co author book chapter for advanced wound clinicians (Management of non viable tissue and debridement) Due for publication in 2010 • Invited reviewer / marker Monash University Masters Wound Care Educational Scholarship Award
2009
• Invited member Johanna Briggs Wound Healing and Management Node (Corresponding Reference Group) Oct 2009 – March 2010
• Expert examiner – Master Nursing Thesis x1 (Otago University New Zealand) 2009
• Invited member subcommittee Association for Advanced Wound Care (AAWC) (representative for
Oceania) – submission of news items for international newsletter (2008/2009)
• Author of content ‘on line learning modules’ (11 modules) for acute and chronic wound management (2008 – 2009) Public Health Service site in Melbourne Victoria
• Australian Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel invited to take part in review literature for Clinical Practical Guidelines for the Prediction and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers March 2008
• Monash University Masters Wound Care Educational Scholarship Award 2007 (reviewer) • Invited International Expert Advisory / Working Panel 2006 to 2008 Pain experienced with chronic wounds – the patients perspective
o Meeting London UK, July 2006 o Meeting Netherlands, Sept 2007 o Symposium presenter World Union Wound Healing Society Congress Toronto June 2008
[future]
• NSW Alliance Practice Nurse Wound Education Working Party 2007 – 2009 (development of 3 Phase education program for Wound Management and Competency Standards for Nurses in General Practice)
• NSW Area Health Project : - Focus group facilitator/ Auditor / Report 2007
• VAC Educational Program Evaluation – Invited by KCI Medical 2007 • Clinical Coordinator Corporate Sponsored Wound Care Publication 2006-08 (2x Editions published in 2008)
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Invited Expert / Committee Member / Reviewer (cont) • Monash University Masters Wound Care Panel Examiner (Residency Week) 2005 • Invited member National Expert Panel STAR (Skin Tear Audit Research) Project 2005 • Victorian Quality Council Educator, Pressure Ulcer Point Prevalence Survey (PUPPS 2005) • Victorian Quality Council Educator and Site Facilitator Pressure Ulcer Point Prevalence Survey (PUPPS 2004) (Commissioned 2 weeks within Victoria)
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Life Long Learning / Professional Development 2010 May Invited to attend evening seminar – Theresa Hurd (invited speaker from Canada) (3.5hrs) ‘Economic challenges of woundcare in an aging population’ (S&N) Sydney 2010 April Invited to attend Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Nursing Forum (2x ½ days) ‘Pathways to healing’ (S&N) Melbourne 2010 Jan - 2011 Master of Wound Care – candidate (50% completed) Monash University 2009 Nov Invited to attend evening seminar – Bill McGuiness (speaker) (2hrs) ‘A less painful way to target bacteria’ (MHC) Sydney 2009 Oct Live web stream – Prof. Christina Lindholm – Less pain academy ‘Pain assessment’ (20 minutes) 2009 Sept Invited to attend evening seminar (3hrs) ‘The skeleton in the closet: the problem of under nutrition in Australia. Healing from the inside out (nutrition and wound healing)’ (Nestle) Sydney 2009 May Participant - Advanced Wound Care Course (3 days) – HEMI Australia Sydney 2008 - 2009 HWIG Educational evening sessions (2.5hrs each) • Pressure ulcer assessment and prevention tools • Infection biofilm and microbiology • Vascular wound update / diabetic wounds • Trauma wounds 2007 June Invited to attend evening seminar – Prof. Donald Maclellan Versiva XC Launch NSW (ConvaTec) Sydney 2007 February Invited attend one day seminar – Guest Keith Harding Management of Complex Wounds [Smith / Nephew] Sydney 2006 Invited attend one day Silver Symposium 2nd] Smith & Nephew Sponsored event Melbourne
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2006
11th Oxford European Wound Healing Summer School [Attendee – 3 days] Oxford UK
2004
9th Oxford European Wound Healing Summer School [Attendee – 4 days] Oxford UK 1996 Inaugural Australian Advanced Wound Care Preceptorial [3 day] – WFA [Program now run by HEMI] Melbourne
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Conferences / Symposium Attended - Delegate • 7th Australian Wound Management Association Conference Perth WA 2010
• NSW Wound Care Association Conference 2009 [1 day / 1 day workshops]
• Hunter Wound Interest Group Conference 2009 [1day + ½ day workshops]
• 4th Australian National Nurse Practitioner Association Conference Melbourne Oct 2008 (2 day)
• 6th Australian Wound Management Association Conference Darwin 2008
• NZ Wound Care Society Conference 2007 [2 Day]
• NSW Wound Care Association Conference 2007 [2 day]
• Silver Symposium 2nd Melbourne 2007 [1 day]
• Hunter Wound Interest Group Conference 2007 [1day]
• 5th Australian Wound Management Association Conference Canberra 2005
• NSW Wound Management Association State Conference 2005
• Western Australia Wound Care and Infection Control Joint Conference Perth 2005
• Inaugural Silver Symposium One day Perth 2005
• 2nd World Wound Healing Union Congress Paris 2004 [5 days]
• 4rd Australian Wound Management Association Conference Hobart Tasmania 2004
• Western Australia Wound Care and Infection Control Joint Conference Perth September 2003
• Asia Pacific Burns Conference Brisbane September 2003
• 13th International Congress of the International Confederation for Plastics, Reconstructive and
Aesthetic Surgery, Sydney August 2003
• 20th Australasian Podiatry Conference Perth May 2003
• NSW Hunter Valley Wound Interest Group March 2003 [2day]
• Australian New Zealand Burns Conference Auckland NZ November 2002
• Western Australia Wound Care and Infection Control Joint Conference Perth Nov 2002
• New Zealand Vascular Nurses Association Conference Rotorua NZ 2002
• 3rd Australian Wound Management Association Conference Adelaide SA 2002
• Ausmed National Surgical Conference Adelaide 2001
• 1st World Wound Healing Congress Melbourne 2000
• Ausmed National Surgical Conference ‘On the Cutting Edge’ Melbourne 1999
• 2nd Australian Wound Management Association Conference Brisbane QLD March 1998
• Cosmetic Reconstructive Nurses Association Annual Conference Melbourne 1997
• Infection Control Nurses Associate Annual Conference Melbourne Nov 1996
• 1st Australian Wound Management Association Scientific Meeting Sydney NSW Feb. 1996
• International Wound Conference Melbourne Victoria 1994 [First wound management conference in
Australia]
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Community Service 2008 / 2009 (total 20 days) NEPAL
Scheer Memorial Hospital / ADRA Burns Reconstructive Surgical Team (Banepa, Nepal)
Volunteer surgical team member • Ward clinical nursing and educator
• Post surgery wound clinic
Educational lecture topics delivered included: • Burns prevention and management
• Pressure ulcer prevention and management
• Assessment (wound)
• Wound related pain assessment and management
• Skin grafts, flaps and donor site management