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 Carollyn Williams.
Carollyn undertook her basic nursing training at Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne. She has worked in perioperative nursing as a clinician and Unit Manager, beginning her formative perioperative experience at the Wellington Hospital in New Zealand and then continuing at The Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health, Victoria..
For eight years Carollyn worked as a private practitioner for surgeons that included general, vascular and orthopaedic surgery. For the last 16 years she has worked in nursing education teaching perioperative courses at a hospital level and at Deakin University where she has been involved in the development of the new Graduate Certificate/Graduate Diploma curriculum and the Nurse Practitioner sequence of the Masters course. Carollyn has been a member of the Australian College Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) Standards review working party and mostly recently in 2006 has been the Project Manager for the review of the ACORN Competency Standards for Perioperative Nurses using a Delphi technique. Subsequently, this lead to the development of a toolkit for the use of the competency standards. Carollyn’s Masters thesis explored the nature of perioperative nursing entitled “uncovering concepts of care in perioperative nursing practice” using a Gadarmerian hermeneutic phenomenological methodology. Her interests in nursing include competency based assessment, practice development, recruitment and retention and marketing the role of perioperative nurses. Carollyn is currently writing the history of the Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group.
Nursing publications:
Williams, C. (1996). Quality circles - assuring perioperative standards. ACORN Journal, Summer, 20-21.
Coles, G. & Williams, C. (1999). Surgical smoke -a cause for concern? ACORN Journal, Autumn, 23 – 24.
Williams, C. (1999). Recruitment to perioperative nursing. Nursing Review, November, p. 28.
Williams C. (2000). Validating perioperative nursing. Nursing Review, July, p. 37.
Williams, C. & Ashton, A. (2001). Advanced standard precautions in the operating room, Nursing Review, August, p. 14, 18.
Smith, H., Williams, C. & Zielinski, V. (2002). Specialist year. Connections – National Nursing Networks & Chapter Newsletter, 5(2), 57.
(Contributing author) - Zielinski, V. (2004). Creme de la creme - a history of nursing education at The Geelong Hospital 1896-199.(2nd ed.). Geelong: Barwon Health.
Williams, C. (2006). Uncovering concepts of care in perioperative nursing practice. Journal of Advanced Perioperative Care, 2(3), 75-85.
Michael, R. & Williams, C. (2006). The perioperative nurse practitioner: reality or myth? A western and eastern states perspective. ACORN Journal 19(4), 24-27.
Williams, C. & Hill, V. (2007). Review of the competency standards for perioperative nursing. ACORN Journal, 20(2), 22-33.
Williams, C. & Mant, P. (2007). First line emergency care – extending scope of practice of registered nurses division 2 in Victoria. Connections – National Nursing Networks & Chapter Newsletter, 10(1), 15.
Williams, C. & Reed, M. (2008). A coordinated approach to a complex cohort improving outcomes for COPD patients in the acute setting. Connections - National Nursing Networks & Chapter Newsletter 11(1), 37.
Nursing papers:
Performance enhancement – implementing competency standards for perioperative nursing practice. VPNG Conference, Melbourne August 2000 (Co-presenter).
Providing a recruitment/retention strategy for specialised nursing practice. VPNG Conference, Melbourne July 2001.
ORnursesdownunder dot com. VPNG/VSPAAN/DSSIG Combined Seminar, Geelong October 2001.
Uncovering concepts of care in perioperative nursing practice. VPNG Conference, Melbourne, August 2003. (Awarded Synthes Prize for best paper).
Uncovering concepts of care in perioperative nursing practice. Barwon Health Research Seminar, Geelong October 2003.
Uncovering concepts of care in perioperative nursing practice. International Congress in Innovations in Nursing, Perth November 2003.
ACORN Count Standard (Member expert discussion panel). VPNG Conference, Melbourne August 2004.
The perioperative nurse practitioner: reality or myth? A western and eastern states perspective. ACORN Conference, Canberra May 2006 (Co- presenter).
Review of competency standards for perioperative nurses. ACORN Conference, Canberra May 2006.
Nursing competencies and practice – were wither the perioperative advanced nurse practitioner? (Member expert discussion panel) ACORN Conference, Canberra May 2006.
Review of competency standards for perioperative nurses. VPNG Conference, Melbourne August 2006.
Advanced practice nursing and the nurse practitioner role in perioperative nursing. VPNG Conference, Melbourne August 2006.
First line emergency care – extended scope of practice for Registered Nurses Division 2. RCNA Conference, Sydney July 2007.
First line emergency care – extended scope of practice for Registered Nurses Division 2. DHS Division 2 Directions Forum, Melbourne October 2007.
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