Professional Officer
E-mail: theprofessionalofficer@acnn.org.au
Trudi Mannix SA
Trudi
completed her general nurse training in Adelaide and her midwifery in Scotland, and fell in love with neonatal nursing after working in the NICU at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Adelaide in 1982. In 1984 she received the top student prize on completion of the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Course. After 2 years as Clinical Educator in the Neonatal Unit at Flinders Medical Centre she took on the role of course coordinator of the Hospital Certificate in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing in 1989, a position she held until June 2009. In 1991 Trudi worked with a team of dedicated neonatal nurses to establish the Association of Neonatal Nurses of SA and became the inaugural President. She has since held the positions of Secretary and Vice President of ANNA (now ACNN), and every executive position on ANNSA! In 2005 she was awarded life membership of ANNSA in recognition of her contributions to the Association since its inception. Trudi has also been heavily involved with the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand over the years, having been PSANZ (SA Branch) President, national Secretary and ACNN’s Program Resource Committee representative. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Nursing in 1995, and completed her Doctorate in Education in 2008. In July 2009, Trudi took up a new role teaching undergraduate nurses and midwives at Flinders University. She is a member of the ACNN collaboration of neonatal nursing researchers, and her areas of interest are critical thinking, bonding and attachment, parental stress and standards of neonatal intensive care nursing education. In 2007 Trudi accepted the role of ACNN’s Professional Officer, and in 2010 she joined the NPCHN Journal Management Board and took on the role of Chairperson. She continues to be committed to neonatal nursing.