Geoffrey Devine Email & Phone Number

Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

GVH ED is a very busy rural emergency department, in a large and expanding Australian regional town/small city, managing patients in all categories across the life-span. It is a level 2 trauma centre, paediatric centre, likely 40K patients in 2023. The department has a higher level of acuity than peer organisations and has been redeveloped over recent years. Despite the infrastructure redevelopment the annual growth in presentations continues to often exceed capability and tests the whole organisation.Manages 130 staff directly, responsible for hiring decisions, staff performance management, and payroll. Also manages quality, risk and innovation initiatives. Responsible for overall resource utilisation, other than doctor staffing.

Holmesglen Private Hospital

Responsible for high standards patient care delivery in the emergency departmentSupervision of staff delivering careCollaboration with medical staff to achieve a high standard of patient careAccountable for quality and timely patient flow through the emergency department through to inpatient units and homeExcellent communication with patients, families, and many internal and external stakeholdersWritten communications with staff and stakeholders

Sandringham Hospital, Sandringham, Victoria

Delivering nursing care to adults and children in a community hospital, working in all areas including resuscitation, triage, shift team leading, and emergency nurse responder to the hospital for codes. I developed expertise in paediatric, obstetric and gynaecology care in this role, patient populations in which I had not practiced in twenty years.In-charge of department on many shifts, managing patient quality of care, patient flow and resource utilisation.

Prahran, Victoria

Casual Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department.

Coburg, Victoria, Australia

Casual Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department.

Footscray, Victoria

Managed emergency department managing 35,000 patient presentations per annum Responsible for quality and effectiveness of care delivered by all staffResponsible for clerical staff service delivery to emergency department customersImmediate line manager of 120 staff, all HR and IR responsibilities, recruitment and performance management.Budget responsibility, purchasing authorisation, and variance reporting (> $10M)Management of quality processes, internal audits, developing responses and reporting into Divisional committeesPrimary investigator and reporter of accountable officer for reported incidents, analyzing trends, developing responses and reporting into the organisationParticipation in various organization committees including pandemic preparedness, moving toward data reporting integrity, purchasing new monitoring systems

Parkville, Victoria

Manager of ward:24 bed inpatient unitResponsible for nursing care quality and standardsDeveloped and maintained a quality discharge focused model of care, within a multidisciplinary team, achieving greater than 50% daily patient throughput48 direct reports, responsible for recruitment and performance management, and achieved 100% staffing for 12 months until departure (with a staff waiting list to start on unit)Budget and resource utilisation, including purchasing and reporting (total budget > $3M)Key co-author and driver of the redevelopment of the policy and training package for the ‘Management of Clinical Aggression’, for implementation across the organisationCo-author of management of inpatients with asthma guidelineDesign of new department to be built inside new ED precinct

Parkville, Victoria

Clinical expert in emergency and trauma nursing.Responsible for quality and effective care of patients in 40-bed tertiary referral emergency department and level one trauma centre.Direct supervision of nursing care in tertiary ED and up to 20 staff on a per shift basis (nursing, clerical, ED assistants) including resource utilisation. Assisted manager with management functions, including primary staff selection and performance management.Project officer for both Breakthrough (reducing waits and delays in emergency departments) National Institute of Clinical Studies ED Mental Health Collaborative.

Parkville, Victoria

Registered nurse delivering direct patient care to all patients arriving in the emergency department and level one trauma centre, including helicopter arrivals. Initially employed into the Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Nursing (Emergency) run collaboratively with the University of Melbourne. Developed advanced skill set in all areas of practice (trauma, triage, resuscitation, team leading), and became Clinical Nurse Specialist in 1998.

Hobart, Tasmania

Registered Nurse in nurse pool working in all areas of hospital, including five months in the tertiary level intensive care unit.

Roseberry, Tasmania

Director and co-founder of a small company delivering on-site mine first aid service, including underground assessment and extrication. Worked as first aid officer/nurse as part of delivering this service.

Raaf Base Williams

Entry level nursing officer in RAAF, based at RAAF 6 Hospital.

Tasmania, Australia

Hobart, Tasmania

Seconded from RAAF to undertake a gradiuate year of three nursing clinical ward rotations.

Master'S Degree, Nursing Practice

Post Graduate Diploma, Advanced Clinical Nursing

Postgraduate theory for practice in critical care nursing, with a specialty in emergency nursing, run concurrently with employment.

Bachelor'S Degree, Nursing Science

Activities and Societies: Post-registration qualification, expanding on my previous diploma, with topics beyond immediate clinical.

Diploma Of Clinical Nursing, Pre-Nursing Studies

Undergraduate, pre-registration, comprehensive nursing studies. Clinical practice was delivered at hospitals, health facilities.