Responsibilities and skills involved

• Employed as a Clinical Nurse in various extremely isolated & remote locales

• Clinical practice in Australian Aboriginal communities with the combined burdens of endemic chronic disease, socio-economic hardship, paucity of resources, mental health crises, EtOh & drug related violence and extreme geographic isolation

• Wet-season access to most communities (with the exception of Alice Springs) impossible for 4 to 6 months of the year due to weather related road conditions

• All acute emergency, road ambulance & aeromedical case preparation performed by on-site CN’s, RN’s, Indigenous Health Workers & community ambulance driver

• Facilities typically consist of a 1 to 3 bay ED only - No acute beds

• 1 or 2 Dr’s sometimes present for Primary Care FIFO clinic no more than 3 days of the week at best

• No doctors on full-time staff

• Extremely demanding role demanding a high degree of confidence, autonomy, mastery of clinical skills & diagnostic decision making

Responsibilities and skills involved

• Employed as a volunteer RN educator with an Ukrainian NGO

• Providing courses in Tactical Combat Casualty Care, first aid & basic life support/CPR (requirements varied depending upon group)

• Also providing deliveries of humanitarian aid opportunistically

• Training provided to Ukrainian Army, civilians and other humanitarian aid/NGO workers

• Ages of classes ranging from primary school age children to the elderly

• High-stress role requiring a great degree of flexibility, creativity, situational awareness & patience

• Courses typically delivered in spartan ‘ad hoc’ community halls or to deployed military formations in the field

• 100% self-funded, unpaid position

Responsibilities and skills involved

• Employed as a Clinical Nurse in ED & after hours on site aged care

• 2 bay ED - No acute beds

• No on-site medical officer nor on-call VMO/GP – requiring high degree of responsibility and autonomy from nursing staff

• All cases of high acuity required telemedicine consult from Lismore Hospital

• ED in-charge

• Assessment, treatment, and stabilization of low to high acuity emergency cases

• Cannulation, pathology, simple & complex wound management, paediatric & geriatric cases

• Coordination of road evacuations and interfacility transfers

Responsibilities and skills involved

• Participation in inter/intranational medical retrievals and repatriations by air ambulance & commercial aircraft.

• Coordination of inter/intranational medical retrievals, repatriations and cruise ship medical offloads

• Critical thinking and a collaborative approach to coordination of care amongst myriad medical and allied health specialties, countries, languages and locations worldwide.

• Case conferencing and decision making with medical staff and multidisciplinary health care providers both worldwide, and within WTP.

• Medical and logistical case management of customers overseas • Providing timely and professional health advice and assessment to clients over the telephone.

• Responding to inbound/outbound telephone enquiries from clients and healthcare providers from the WTP coordination centre in Brisbane, Qld.

• Providing exceptional service for customers, clients and service providers.