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Hi, my name is Champs, and it was great to meet you all this week. My role at RBWH is to ensure that medication related evidence is reflected in our patient care. I am hoping to learn a lot in undertaking this course and from each one of you.
Champs

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Hi All, I’m Cate and currently work at Redcliffe as the A/Director of Physiotherapy.   My ‘wins’ are seeing junior staff develop clinical and leadership skills; and leading a department who embrace change (not always an easy thing to get them to come up with the solutions I am looking for!)

Looking forward to learning as much from you as from the QUT staff.  My previous experience has been that peers often have the answer – if I know what to ask!  Excited to see how this course can help define my questions to make finding the answers easier.

See you bright and early tomorrow!

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Hi everyone. I'm Anna Farrell and I'm a Speech Pathologist at RBWH. I lead the neuro-rehabilitation team and coordinate the departmental research program. I am passionate about the implementation of evidence into practice which improves patients outcomes as well as improving our healthcare service. I'm privileged to have the opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge through this course and look forward to working with you all.

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Perry Judd is a physiotherapist (graduated from UQ in 1997) with a passion for healthcare service improvement and innovation. After more than 12 years of working in clinical roles across Metro North HHS, as well as overseas, he became interested in taking on projects to improve health care delivery in Allied Health services. This led to several project officer and project lead positions within Metro North, as well as acting Team Leader roles for Allied Health services within Community, Indigenous and Subacute Services. His interest in multidisciplinary management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions brought him to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in 2015 to implement the Spinal Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multidisciplinary Service. In 2016 he moved into the permanent role of Deputy Director of Physiotherapy at the RBWH. As part of this role he continues to lead quality and innovation initiatives, many of which have applicability across Allied Health at a facility, HHS and state-wide level.

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Amber Jones is an RBWH Occupational Therapy Team Leader. Specialising in Burn Care, Amber contributes to clinical research, and regularly presents at conferences and workshops. In 2012, she visited American burn centres and in 2015 was deployed to Cairns to lead the occupational therapy service following the Ravenshoe mass casualty.

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Hi everyone, I'm Bianca and work as a Dietitian Team Leader at The Prince Charles Hospital. My role covers both leadership of a small clinical team of dietitians, and also management of the Food Services Department. My job really challenges me as it is a perfect mix of clinical, and the ability to lead a clinical support service in quality improvements and menu design that positively influences the nutritional status of our patients. I'm looking forward to sharing and learning from you all throughout this course. From the pre-work on identifying current practices that are traditional and not evidence-based that could be considered for cessation, I suggest the role of restrictive diets in acute care settings for patients with short LOS, when we have such high rates of malnutrition.

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@seriousloverofallthingsgin
There always has to be one!!! But on a more professional note, like many of my colleagues I share a passion to improve the healthcare service we work within.  This is a fairly broad statement so to me it means, making a difference for our patients within our capabilities (funding, workforce, culture, realm of reality....etc).  I have also been known to push the boundaries to help improve/increase our capabilities.  I currently get to do this for the Surgical Services within Metro North (which we all know isn't a neat little box and crosses into many other directorates, streams and services).  My background is Nursing with a few other career diversions along the way.  Look forward to meeting you all.  And hope there are a few fellow @ginlovermembers to help enjoy the uni life, yet again.

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Hi I'm Kaleigh Leggett. I coordinate Elective Surgery for Redcliffe Hospital. I have en extensive Nursing background all within the surgical arena. I have a very strong interest in equity of access to services for our community and a passion for "doing it better" and looking for opportunities to improve services, practices and communication to our patients.  I am a very enthusiastic and bubbly person and enjoy engaging all facets of the health care industry to achieve successful outcomes  Looking forward to broadening my knowledge with all of you.  See you all on the 5th
K

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Hello,  my name is Nicky.  I am the Nursing Director for Outpatient Strategies in MNHHS.
My acute nursing background includes clinical nursing positions in Vascular and Neurosurgical units, as well as the RBWH Burns Unit before moving into Outpatients, with a focus on complex wound management, burns and plastic surgery.  I developed a strong interest in 'how can we do this better for our patients and staff' during my time as a Clinical Nurse, and this desire to improve how we deliver our health services underpins my practice today.  I enjoy collaborating with others to support and deliver service improvement, and would like to continue to develop my skills in this area.
I am not even a little bit photogenic, so no photo provided....
Nicky

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Hi everyone, I'm Danielle. I work in the Healthcare Improvement Unit's Surgical and Outpatient Reform team. I love working in this space and being involved in many exciting innovations in healthcare. I'm looking forward to learning how to better identify, evaluate and implement  genuine improvement initiatives as I am passionate about the long-term sustainability of the public health system...I hate bandaid solutions! Looking forward to working with you all. D

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Hey Everyone,
I work in Metro North Mental Health as the Director of Psychology. I'm obviously passionate about Psychology and interested in learning more about putting the evidence base into practice, especially within mental health services. My background is in alcohol and 🤬, and so I'm also very interested in services and interventions targeting alcohol and drug problems, and the intersection with mental health problems among others.
I'm looking forward to meeting up with you all next week and getting back into the classroom!

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Hi all. Looking forward to the course & to meeting you all again in March.
I am an ED physician at Caboolture. The favourite bits of by job are education & the patent interaction. I like the snow.
I have often aspired to do things better, although my experience implementation science so far is best summed up with a Hal Hartely quote (retweet really). 'There is no such thing as adventure and romance, only trouble and desire'.
So I am very keen to bolt together some skills in implementation to a point where I can reliably produce the outcome I set out to achieve.
Sean C

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Hi I’m Sally, a dietitian and research ‘beginner’ in the orthogeratric space at TPCH. In addition to this I have worked part time for the last few years on various implementation projects, including facilitating implementation of Eat Walk Engage at TPCH and currently implementing a new AH MOC in ED (OPALS), this role has expanded into supporting integration of the AH into the broader ED context. I’m looking forward to this opportunity and helping make change sustainable. See you in March

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Hello, I am the Director Strategy and Planning in MNHHS. I love being part of team that uses evidence to understand, plan and organise health services based on health need. I am looking forward to getting back into study and the networking opportunities.

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Hi Everyone, I'm Bec. My background is in Dietetics, but I'm currently acting in the Manager of Research and Quality, Internal Medicine at The Prince Charles Hospital. I'm interested in the way people and culture influence the delivery of healthcare. Really looking forward to this opportunity and creating networks across MN.

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Hi , I look forward to meeting you all in March and am very much looking forward to embarking on the journey with you over the next few years. I am the Nursing Director of the Medicine Stream in MNHHS and have a interest in developing clinical information systems and service transformation and I am a strong advocate for the influence and impact clinicians have in healthcare planning and service delivery.

My vision is to create, foster and support Metro North Hospital and Health Service to deliver exceptional patient and staff experiences. This includes ensuring the right care, with patient satisfaction and staff engagement.

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Hello all. I work within the Mental Health Directorate as the Director of Governance and Quality Management. I love all things safety and quality and I am very excited about innovative practice. I have a clinical background as a psychologist, having worked primarily with young people as my preferred client group. I have various qualifications in project management and change management and try to bring a little bit of knowledge from each different area in to any project or service I am working with. I have a 2.5 yr old girl, who is an absolute delight, so life is very busy. Looking forward to the 3 day block in March. Shirley

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Hi new study partners,
My substantive position is the Nursing Director - Service Development for Community Indigenous and Sub-Acute Services (CISS) I love to challenge tradition and ask the question can we do it better, learning along the way by both the good achievements and the problems that are encountered.

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Hi All,
I started my career in logistics & operations and found my way into health around 6yrs ago . I am passionate about unpicking processes an systems and supporting those around me come up with new innovative, efficient, patient focused ways of delivering healthcare. I'm excited to begin this new challenge and look forward to adding many more tools to my tool bag.

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Hi Everyone,
I am one of the Nursing Directors working in Metro North PACH (Patient Access Coordination Hub). I have worked in Qld Health for over 25 years in a variety of clinical and management roles. I have been a Nurse Educator, NUM (Cancer Care), Hospital Coordinator and more recently Patient Flow Coordinator. I am passionate about good patient care and assisting Metro North clients and staff in the art of contemporary and innovative service delivery. I am really excited to challenge myself with further study .

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Hi I'm Leah. My clinical background is an Occupational Therapist and I'm currently working as the Manager of Research and Quality for the Internal Medicine Program at TPCH. I love trying new things and being involved in study again will be challenging, fun and hopefully really rewarding.

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Hard to know where to start. Am a geriatrician and general physician. Currently director of Internal Med at TPCH and exec director of the medical stream. I would consider myself innovative, self taught after a desire to be lazy. I like to play soccer, ski, hike and ride a bike. I will try and ride to my lectures, hopefully will find a shower somewhere.

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Hi my name is Tracey and I am  a Clinical Nurse and Researcher in the Emergency and Trauma Centre at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.  Sounds exciting hey! Shame its mostly just really hard work.  Since 2008 I have  been undertaking research into innovative models of cardiovascular care, peripheral intravenous cannulation and emergency care. I completed my degree before journals were online!  I furthered my training in the UK and brought home a husband and two children.

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Hi my name is Patricia Smith. Although everyone calls me Tric (pronounced Trish - blame my mum for the spelling). I proudly work in Women's and Newborn Services RBWH. My background for the last thirty+ years has been in the maternity, neonatal and gynaecology space in a variety of clinical and management positions. I am passionate about consumers and family being treated as equal partners in health care system.

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Hi everyone, I'm your unit coordinator for PUZ019. My passion is getting evidence into practice... and making it stick!  You can read more about me  here: http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/osbornes/.