Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) ICU Nurse Practitioner Team
You’re invited to an important webinar about an innovative program designed to help grow Australia’s Nurse Practitioner (NP) workforce.
Although well-established internationally, Nurse Practitioners (NP) in adult Australian Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are rare. Australian literature clearly highlights the importance of creating ICU NP roles to meet the emerging demands, including adult ICU nursing attrition, and capacity to train mid-career ICU doctors.
NPs in the ICU at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) in Sydney have developed an innovative, sustainable service model. The team has designed a fellowship-style training program, where nurses from all over Australia can train to become NPs within their own communities. Importantly, this training model is readily scalable and stands to optimise the untapped potential of advanced practice nursing on a national scale.
During this webinar, ICU NP Sarah Webb from RNSH will discuss the background of the fellowship, the development of the program and the expected benefits.
This is an innovative training model, whereby nurses wishing to become NPs undertake a residency at RNSH and train in an immersive and highly supportive bespoke program. The program will be based on the NP standards, which align with the needs of their health service. Programs will be developed in partnership with the supporting health service and university Master’s program.
Come along to this information session and find out more about this innovative program and the potential opportunity this fellowship presents for Queensland’ nurses.
About the presenter – Sarah Webb
Sarah is an ICU Nurse Practitioner and was the driving force behind the creation of an ICU NP model of care in RNSH ICU in 2014. Sarah has over 19 years experience in Intensive Care where she has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, ICU Clinical Coordinator, ICU Clinical Educator and Resuscitation clinical nurse consultant. Since 2014, Sarah has been building the adult intensive care NP model and promoting the NP role. Sarah has completed a Master of Nursing (Intensive Care), a Graduate Diploma of Midwifery and a Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner). She is a midwife and worked briefly in aeromedical retrieval. Sarah has a particular interest in developing advanced practice nursing in intensive care and building a framework to support the clinical training of future nurse practitioners.