Linda Grady
Clinical Nurse Specialist, ICU, Southern DHB, Dunedin, NZ
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Linda Grady’s current position within Southern District Health Board is that of Clinical Nurse Specialist for Critical Care. She also a clinical tutor at Otago Medical School for a 2nd and 3rd year class and is a Professional Teaching Fellow for Otago University. She is one of the founding members of the Dunedin hospital Tracheostomy Response Team TRT. Linda believes in the achievement of clinical excellence and advancing expertise, not just within the Critical Care team but throughout the entire organisation. The phenomenon, that the more you learn the more you want to know, is accurate and an absolute for Linda. She has been successful with post graduate study in the fields of critical care, aeromedical retrieval, advanced health assessment, leadership and management and completed clinical masters in education.
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Rebuilding an ICU: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
“Jubilations, we are getting a new ICU”. I do believe I made this statement in 1986 but… So we have now been functional in our new unit for almost a year and how that we have survived that journey, I would like to share some of it with you. There has been much laughter; numerous stories told of past experiences; some tears and loads of grey hairs as well as many glasses of something red consumed. Plus we are still not complete so we remain a journey in progress.
“Jubilations, we are getting a new ICU”. I do believe I made this statement in 1986 but… So we have now been functional in our new unit for almost a year and how that we have survived that journey, I would like to share some of it with you. There has been much laughter; numerous stories told of past experiences; some tears and loads of grey hairs as well as many glasses of something red consumed. Plus we are still not complete so we remain a journey in progress.