Denise Sharp Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Facilitation of student Enrolled Nurses within the Aged Care setting. This includes:• Monitoring their performance and providing support when and where required during their placement.• Providing evidence-based answers to their questions related to the care they are providing within the aged care setting.• Undertaking ongoing practical assessment related to their workbooks during their placement and guiding the students when they require clarity in their learning and assessments.• Ensuring that the environment is safe both for the students and also for the residents and staff of the facility.Teaching within the classroom setting at Mayfield Education the following sessions:Enrolled Nurses Medication and IV therapy and medication Endorsement: HLTENN007Diploma students:• HLTAAP003• HLTENN005• HLTENN006• HLTENN011• HLTENN015• HLTENN007 Analyse and respond to client health informationContribute to nursing care of a person with complex needsApply principles of wound management in the clinical environmentImplement & Monitor Care for a person with Acute Health ProblemsApply Nursing practice in the primary health care settingAdminister and Monitor IV therapy and MedicinesAssisted with the development, writing and review of the Diploma Unit HLTENN015 Apply nursing practice in the primary health care setting. This included:• Review and modify as appropriate work completed to date on the development of the new materials • Building of new materials in the form of power point presentations • Review and development of assessment materials including a workbook to capture in class activities and clinical placement assessments.

Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

Providing Covid-19 immunisation services

Melbourne, Australia

The HITH Project role was multifaceted and required me to work across a number of the acute campuses within Eastern Health to identify variations in HITH referral, transfer processes and knowledge with the final goal to increase the HITH daily occupancy from 47.4 to 60 clients by December 2017. As it was a short-term contract I had to very quickly learn about the HITH program and the numerous issues related to why the patient occupancy had reduced over the last few years. During the term of this contract I worked closely with the Nurse Unit Manager HITH and the Associate Program Director Ambulatory and Community Care to achieve the following which has provided a platform for the HITH staff to leverage off of in the next phase of the project.•

East Burwood, Melbourne

I was responsible for transitioning the practice engagement staff from three medicare locals into one organisation - the Eastern Melbourne PHN. This required me to lead a team of 15 staff to engage with General Practitioners and general practice staff across the region providing support to each team member who were required to function in a different structure from the previous medicare locals. The team was responsible for reviewing and developing updated information which reflected the new PHN organisation and the services that my team would provide. Our target goal was to ensure that all practices within the large geographical region had been contacted and informed of the new organisation which replaced the medicare locals. This we achieved within the timeframe.

East Burwood, Melbourne Victoria

I hold several roles at the Medicare Local, including HealthPathways Melbourne Manager, Practice Engagement Manager and Hospital Engagement Manager. This role enables me to combine development of HealthPathways with significant direction and input from the following Local Health Networks: Eastern Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital. At the same time the Practice Engagement Team are in an excellent position to promote HealthPathways to the General Practitioners and their practices when on engagement visits. Other work I am engaged in with Eastern Health and a lesser extent the Austin Hospital is introducing and supporting General Practice in Advanced Care Planning services for their patients. The Chinese community is also an area that my Practice Engagement team have been working with during 2014-15 - this work is related to Hepatology and Advanced Care Planning. The Practice Engagement team has been actively involved with supporting Hepatitis B & C initiatives in the region and is currently supporting the CATCH program offered at Eastern Health. This program offers a mobile fibroscan service to General Practitioners, allowing them to identify patients who are at risk or have developed hepatocellular carcinoma. My team also provides a Quality Support Improvement Package to General Practices and will help each practice to navigate through the PDSA cycle to achieve positive patient focused outcomes and gain RACGP points. Additionally, the team led by me, assist a number of key external stakeholders to conduct various projects within the primary care arena which includes but is not limited to General Practice. During the past 20 months my team have built up strong, collaborative relationships with all Local Health Networks in the Medicare Local region including Eastern Health, Austin Health, St Vincents Hospital, Royal Melbourne Health, Northern Health and the private health services including Cabrini, Epworth, Knox Private.

Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local

As the HealthPathways Coordinator I commenced the implementation of HealthPathways within the IEMML region along with the INWMML HP Coordinator during the early period of 2013. Part of the role required building the relationships between the participating Local Health Networks, working with General Practitioners to accept and use the HealthPathways Melbourne and identifying and localising new pathways for the region. At the end of 2013 I successfully gained a promotion to ML Integration and Hospital Engagement Manager. This role also incorporated managing the HealthPathways Program.

Melbourne, Australia

I conducted two projects related to the Emergency Departments (ED) and Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) in the IEMML jurisdiction. Achievements:• Developed further strategies to inform potential patients at the ED of alternative services offered after hours.• Met with over twenty Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), seven of which were involved in a pilot project that I successfully conducted through IEMML.• Achieved negotiations and completion of Service Agreements with St. Vincent’s Hospital; Eastern Health; and Monash Health related to the Residential In-Reach Services offered by the LHNs.

Knoxfield, Victoria

Ensuring that all staff met accreditation standards and the residents were cared for in a safe environment. I managed all the staff employed at the facility which included not only the nursing staff and carers but the maintenance, kitchen and cleaning staff. I was required to manage the human resources from an employment perspective ensuring that the staff employed where skilled to provide the services required.

Melbourne, Australia

As the Nurse Unit Manager of a thirty bed surgical ward I was instrumental in implementing the following innovations to improve the flow of patients, reduce the cost of surgical supplies and improve the quality of service to patients within the ward. Piloted and then implemented the Discharge Coordinator role within the wardStreamlined the stores within the ward Ensured that all nursing staff were 100% accredited in epidural managementImplemented and increased use of journey board incorporating medical and allied healthintroduced a buddy system for new graduates and team approach to the ward nursing staffDeveloped a rigorous establishment to demonstrate staff contracts and hours of work at a glanceRe introduced the urology service to the ward.

Act Health

My role was to support the Chief Nurse of the ACT. It was a multifaceted role and achievements were broad:• Implementation of (phase two) of the Advanced Enrolled Nurse (L2) position• Organising and implementing a workshop and distance education six month course for Enrolled Nurses offered by the College of Nursing and funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Office• Working collaboratively with the Canberra Institute of Technology to implement Enrolled Nurse Medication Courses and a Transition Course (from Certificate IV to Diploma). • Managing the ACT Health Nursing and Midwifery website and updating when required• Re-introducing a bi-monthly Nursing and Midwifery newsletter and evaluating, which was used as a template for other areas of ACT Health• Reviewing and updating the ACT Health policy for Endorsed Enrolled Nurses Medication Policy (2008). Endorsed by ACT Health Portfolio Executive.• Developing an ACT Health policy for Continuing Competence in Nursing and Midwifery. Endorsed by ACT Health Portfolio Executive • Assisting with the development and consultation phase of the new student clinical placement nursing and midwifery section of the website (due for completion in 2009)• Working extensively with the Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Nurse on ACHS EQuIP 4 standard/criteria 3.1.3 related to competency, credentialing and scope of practice and ACT nursing and midwifery• Working toward establishment of Australian Defence Force nursing placements within the Canberra Hospital• Successfully organising the International Nurses and Midwives Celebrations held annually in May each year, comprising Awards Night (over 400 nurses and midwives attended); Remembrance Ceremony at Australian War Memorial attended by civilian and Defence Force nurses; Oration given by Professor Mary Chiarella at the Australian National University.

Canberra, Act

I managed two main projects for the ANMC, firstly the National ‘Codes Project’, this was a review of the existing Code of Ethics for Nurses and Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and development of the Code of Ethics for Midwives and Code of Professional Conduct for Midwives. This project completed phase one in February of 2007 and moved into the second phase in May 2007 until the completion and national publication in August 2008. The second project I was responsible for was the ANMC National Guidelines on Professional Boundaries for Nurses and Midwives, which commenced in February of 2007. Additionally, I worked with the Industry Skills Council on their project to produce a national curriculum for Enrolled Nurses. This package offered Certificate IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma. I was a member of the Industry Skills Council’s working group to examine and progress a renal unit for the Enrolled Nurse and Aboriginal Health Care Workers Advanced Diploma, which was included in the suite of curriculum documents. In my role as Research and Policy Advisor I was also responsible for reviewing the ANMC position statements, working closely with all the peak nursing organisations and the nursing and midwifery regulatory authorities throughout Australia as well as the individual nurses and midwives. I was regularly invited to represent the ANMC on working groups and steering committee to give advice from a regulatory perspective.The Codes and Professional Boundaries are part of the regulatory framework which supports and guides nurses’ and midwives in provision of healthcare. They outline the nursing profession’s commitment to respect, promote, protect and uphold the fundamental rights of people who are both the recipients and providers of nursing and health care.

Canberra Act

Canberra, Act

Nurse Immuniser, Immunisation

Graduate Certificate In Health Management, Health Management

Prince 2 Foundation Certificate, Project Management

Certificate Iv In Training And Assessment (Inc. Lln Competence)

Bachelor Of Health Science (Nursing), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Critical Care Certificate, Critical Care Nursing

Hospital Certificate, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Contract Management

Certificate In Breast Cancer Nursing, Breast Cancer

Certificate In Wound Management, Wound Management