Education Sig

Past Events held in 2020. More coming in 2021. 

10 November 2020 
Ethical Case Study Discussion
Speakers: Justine Parsons, Dr Janet Green, Dr Trisha Prentice, Dr Ahmad Mustafa.

Justine has been the Nurse Educator in NICU at John Hunter Children’s Hospital since 2004. She holds a Master of Neonatal Nursing from UWS, and Gard Cert in Adult Education from University of Newcastle. Justine has a keen interest in nursing led research, bio ethics, neonatal organ donation and ventilation modalities. She has participated in a range of quality improvement projects – End of Life Care for Indigenous Babies, Kangaroo Care in first 72 hours for ELBW babies, Sepsis Reduction.

Janet - 30 years as a neonatal nurse at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney; 20 years of co-ordinating the neonatal nursing course at UTS. She is a Nurse Adviser to the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission. Has a Masters Degree in Bioethics. Completed her PhD on: "Balancing hope with reality: Caregiving dilemmas for neonatal nurses caring for extremely premature babies” 

Almost finished a Dr of Education degree - "The positives, perils and pitfalls of social media (Facebook) for nurses"

Dr. Trisha Prentice is a neonatologist and bioethicist at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne. She is particularly interested in end-of-life decision-making. Her PhD dissertation examined the Moral Distress of healthcare professionals caring for extremely preterm babies within the neonatal intensive care unit. Dr Prentice additionally serves on the Clinical Ethics Committee at the RCH and is involved in developing state-wide guidelines for management of preterm babies born at the edge of viability.

Dr Ahmed Moustafa is a Neonatology Staff Specialist at Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and a Retrieval Staff Specialist in NETS NSW. Ahmed undertook his undergraduate training in Egypt before moving to Australia in 2007. He trained in paediatrics in NSW and completed his fellowship training in general paediatrics and in neonatal/perinatal medicine. He is a clinical lecturer for The University of Sydney and has interest in neonatal cardiovascular disease and outcomes, clinical ethics, and in teaching through simulation.

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