CELEBRATION
Ramsay staff recognised in national HESTA awards
More than a dozen Ramsay Health Care staff from around Australia have been recognised during the 2019
HESTA Graduate Welcoming and Awards functions, which aim to acknowledge great achievements of both
individuals and teams.
Winners were announced at events in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia across four categories:
• Award of Excellence for Most Outstanding Graduate
• Preceptor of the Year
• Innovation in Education
• Excellence in Leadership
Each award recipient was nominated by a colleague who noticed their commitment to work and the Ramsay values.
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Congratulations to the following award winners from Queensland
Award of Excellence for Most
Outstanding Graduate
Rebecca Lloyd from Greenslopes
Private Hospital. Rebecca is a caring and
professional practitioner with a passion
for her team and safe and quality
nursing of mothers and babies.
Preceptor of the Year
Chris Mitton from Pindara Private
Hospital. Chris is an approachable
teacher who’s always there to support
new members of the team. He genuinely
cares about the nursing profession and
Congratulations to the following award winners from Western Australia
Award of Excellence for Most
Outstanding Graduate
Arielle Popis from Joondalup Health
Campus. Arielle is professional in her
bedside manner and is an honest,
respectable and reliable member of
the team. She’s not afraid to speak up
and is a strong advocate for patients
and their relatives.
Preceptor of the Year
Jennie Young from Hollywood
Private Hospital. Jennie is a relatively
novice registered nurse, but she’s
always willing to supervise students
Congratulations to the following award winners from New South Wales
Award of Excellence for Most
He constantly goes above and beyond,
Outstanding Graduate
often devoting his own time or changing
Jessica Southwell from Port
his leave days to support staff.
Macquarie Private Hospital. Jess is
Excellence in Leadership
driven to provide the highest level
Katrina Cunningham from the Legal
of care for all her patients and she
Services Department in Corporate
provides colleagues with relief,
Head Office, Sydney. Katrina is
knowing she is on duty.
unwavering in her support of everyone
Preceptor of the Year
in the team and looks for opportunities
Sivam Nadarajah from The Northside
to encourage personal growth
Group St Leonards. Sivam spends
and development, making time for
valuable time with the graduates and
everyone. Katrina has never ending
students he mentors, to ensure they
patience and approaches all tasks with
understand the role and expectations.
the same energy, whether of high or
low risk or value, regardless of whether
she has undertaken the same task
multiple times before.
on her ward with compassion and
enthusiasm. She’s known for going out
of her way to help students develop
their surgical skills and knowledge.
Innovation in Education
Education Team from Hollywood
Private Hospital. They developed
the automated Basic Life Support
(BLS) assessment to allow clinicians
to access recertification at a time
convenient for them to improve
‘current in BLS’ KPIs. The change
includes having a CPR manikin on
each ward, which works with an app to
allow individuals to monitor their own
performance, save their result and
send a record of their assessment.
Excellence in Leadership
Wendy Allen from Peel Health
Campus. Wendy is an experienced
clinician with a passion for quality
and patient-centred care. Using her
background in nursing and midwifery,
Wendy is able to use her clinical
expertise in supporting teams to
develop education programs that
ensure teams provide safe, evidence
based, quality care.
Congratulations to the following award winners from Victoria
Award of Excellence for Most
and vascular to ensure her students
Outstanding Graduate
received the highest level of support
Haley Cielesh from The Avenue
and guidance.
Hospital. Haley demonstrates
Innovation in Education
outstanding work within the small
Education Team from The Avenue
plastics team and is always willing to
Hospital/ Glenferrie Private Hospital/
help patients and fellow staff members
Masada Private Hospital. The team
when she can.
developed an educational transition
Preceptor of the Year
program to help tap into the number
Ruth Briggs from Beleura Private
of registered and enrolled nurses who
Hospital. During her 10 years as a
were unable to secure a graduate
student facilitator, Ruth expanded her
placement. The program incorporates
knowledge from medical oncology to
both clinical time and theory study days
include plastics, urology, orthopaedics
and is designed to ensure nurses are
ready for recruitment, which will reduce
agency costs.
Excellence in Leadership
Bridie Seymour from Donvale
Rehabilitation Hospital. Bridie leads
a team of more than 30 staff within
the day rehabilitation department at
Donvale and led the successful merging
of the day rehab allied health team into
one office and therapy space. Bridie
demonstrates an authentic leadership
style, ensuring all are respected.
teaching the new generation of nurses
to implement best practice.
Innovation in Education
Clare Foster and Jan Oksiuta from
Greenslopes Private Hospital. They
developed a temporary cardiac pacing
simulator for staff education. This has
allowed education for an area where
there was a significant gap and was
previously very difficult for staff to
gain expertise.
Excellence in Leadership
Elizabeth Fearon from St Andrew’s
Ipswich Private Hospital. Liz is the Nurse
Unit Manager for the surgical service;
a 32-bed ward at St Andrew’s Ipswich
Private Hospital, which recently grew in
bed numbers and employees during the
recent redevelopment. Liz is willing to
challenge the norm or “how things have
always been done” and is supportive of
change across the organisation.
L to R: Jan Oksiuta, Elizabeth Fearon, Rebecca Lloyd,
Mark Page – on behalf of Chris Mitton who was unable to attend
L to R: Sue Blair, Jeninne Smith, Ruth Briggs, Haley Cielesh,
Lorelle Stevenson, Bridie Seymour, Samantha Dodd, Greg Hall
L to R: Wendy Allen, Jennie Young, Arielle Popis,
Anne Green, Hong Vo
L to R: Malcolm Passmore, Katrina Cunningham, Jessica Southwell,
Sivam Nadarajah, Danny Sims and Mark Ashby