Christopher Barrett

• Working as an autonomous practitioner assessing, diagnosing, managing of patients > 6 months old
• Remote consultation skills
• Requesting appropriates tests including bloods and x-rays as appropriate
• Utilising clinical supervision in practice with a medical colleague
• Wide general knowledge applicable to primary care

Similar to current role

• Undertaking telephone consultations to assess, treat, or referral of urgent presentations
• Effective communication and remote assessment skills
• Health advice as appropriate
• Broad knowledge of current services and appropriate dispositions of care within North East

• Acting as a visible leader, supporting a team of GPs, NPs and support staff in a busy, challenging urgent treatment centre.
• Organising and coordinating permanent and temporary staff to ensure safe staffing levels
• Acting as a county co-ordinator during out of hours
• Supervision and mentoring of new staff and students

• Responding to medical emergencies and cardiac arrests throughout site
• Recognition of deteriorating patients and commencing early interventions
• Escalation and de-escalation or care
• Monitoring critically ill patients, checking symptoms and vital signs and arranging diagnostic tests

• Responding to emergency and Urgent care needs of the public
• Advanced emergency ambulance driving.
• Advanced skills including Adult and Paediatric life support, Maternity care, Major Trauma
• Supported students and junior staff as mentor, advocating a culture of learning and quality improvement

• Travelling around Asia and Australia
• City & rural Nursing in Western Australia and Queensland
• Working within small rural hospitals caring for all needs of patients’

• Triage / Assessment of all ages with emergency presentations
• Participation in trauma and resuscitations teams
• Treatments under direction of doctor
• Trained in venepuncture, IV therapy, catheterisations, ECGs, wound care