BNurs, GCertNurs (IntCare)
Stephen has 20-plus years of experience at The Alfred ICU. He has worked as Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) and Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANUM). Since February 2023 Stephen has held the position of Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM).
Grad Cert Crit Care Nurs
Catherine is an ICU Clinical Nurse Manager at The Alfred. Catherine did her first year of nursing at The Alfred in the cardiac ward in 2008 before heading up to northern NSW to complete a second-year graduate program in the ICU at Tweed Heads Hospital where she continued to work in the ICU.
Catherine returned to Melbourne in 2011 and started in The Alfred ICU in October 2011. She completed her Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing in 2012 and became an Associate Nurse Unit Manager (ANM) in ICU in 2015.
Since 2016, she worked as an ANM and as a Patient Access Nurse (PAN) in ICU until May 2023 when she took a secondment with the Clinical Governance Unit as a Clinical Risk Coordinator.
She has learnt so much since then that she is excited to bring her newly acquired knowledge and experience back to the ICU clinical space.
She is a Mum of 2 little kids. She enjoys camping, bush walking and running when she is not at work.
Karina began her nursing career in Ireland before relocating to Australia in 2019.
She joined the Alfred ICU in 2020 and completed a postgraduate certificate in critical care in 2022. Karina is currently the Clinical Nurse Manager of Pod A, with a strong interest in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
Christine is the Clinical Nurse Manager for Pod D in The Alfred ICU. She began her nursing career in 2009 in the private sector and has worked in intensive care for the past 14 years, including nine years at The Alfred. Christine has held a range of clinical and leadership roles and has a particular interest in cardiac and general critical care.
BNurs, GCertNurs (IntCare)
Yasmin is the Clinical Nurse Manager for Team C at The Alfred ICU. She has been at The Alfred for 26 years and in ICU for 23 years. Throughout her tenure, she has held various roles, including Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse Educator, Associate Nurse Manager and Clinical Nurse consultant.
She has special interests in the field of Complex Trauma and Neurosurgery. In addition to her clinical role, Yasmin is dedicated to ensuring staff support and well-being within the ICU.
Bianca is a Clinical Nurse manager at the Alfred ICU. She started her nursing career in theatre before joining the Alfred on the Neurosurgical and Trauma ward. Bianca worked in ICU at Epworth Richmond before coming back to the Alfred to complete her Graduate Certificate in ICU and where she has stayed for the last 7 years working as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager, ICU Liaison nurse and now as a Clinical Nurse Manager.
Brooke is the Level 2 Clinical Nurse Manager at the Alfred ICU. She started her nursing career in 2009 in NSW at the John Hunter Hospital before moving to Melbourne to start her Alfred Career in 2017. She completed her Graduate Certificate in ICU in 2021 and has held positions of Team Support Nurse, and Associate Nurse Manager before her Clinical Nurse Manager appointment in 2024. She has an interest in Trauma, General Surgery, Maxillofacial and Otolaryngology.
MNg (CritCare)
Catherine is a Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Alfred ICU. She has completed her Master of Critical Care Nursing. Her interests include the care and management of trauma and neurosurgical patients in intensive care.
Catherine is involved in postgraduate education delivery and research activities related to these patients' cohorts. She is member of the Alfred Trauma Committee, and is a Senior Coordinator of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS/EMST) courses at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
RN Critical Care, GDipAdvNurs, BSc
Kate completed her Bachelor of Science at Victoria University and went on to study at LaTrobe University where she completed her Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing in 1998. She joined The Alfred in 1994 and was appointed as a Clinical Educator in 2012.
She has broad experience in Intensive Care assisting patients with medical, surgical, trauma and cardiac illnesses. Kate manages a busy schedule as a nurse and continues to deliver education days at The Alfred.
RN, BSc, Nrs Dip, Crit DipTrop
Padraig has worked at The Alfred since 2010 across a number of nursing leadership roles. He has been involved in ECMO care since 2013 and is a current member of the ECLS Clinical Nurse Consultant team supporting staff to care for this complex cohort.
He is an avid but rarely very successful gardener with often able digging assistance from his golden retriever "Lottie". His ongoing areas of interest include staff clinical support, risk mitigation systems, translational SIM, clinical communication and emergency response team management.
BAppSc (Ng), Grad Cert Crit Care Nurs
Darrel is currently working as an ECLS Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Alfred where he has worked for over 20 years in many clinical and leadership positions. These include working as a Critical Care Registered Nurse, and Associate Nurse Unit Manager in Trauma ICU.
He also worked as Associate Nurse Unit Manager in Cardiac, Clinical Nurse Educator, ICU Liaison Nurse, and Patient Access Nurse. He has facilitated numerous ECMO education courses, providing ongoing clinical support and assessments to nursing staff. He also worked as a Donation Specialist Nursing Coordinator and co-authored a clinical research paper, which was published in the Critical Care Resuscitation 2011. He is an active member of the ECLS retrieval team.
PGCertCritCareNsg
Laura is an ECLS Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Alfred. She has 10 years Intensive Care experience in the UK and Australia and an additional 5 years ECLS experience. Over the years, she has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist, a Clinical Associate Nurse Manager, and an Equipment Nurse Manager.
Laura gained her nursing registration and critical care post-graduate qualifications at the University of Wolverhampton & University of Greenwich, London Laura has facilitated numerous ECMO education courses and is involved in ECMO patient retrieval. Laura has a keen interest in paediatric transplantation & ventricular assist devices.
MSC, BSc (Hons), BA (Hons), PICU Dip, RN
Jayne is an ECLS Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Alfred. She has a Master Degree in Education and SIM education. Jayne is an advanced clinical practitioner who collaborates with the healthcare team for ongoing therapies.
This includes extracorporeal life support (ECLS), ventricular assist devices (VAD), complex cardiac management and paediatric lung transplantation. Jayne is an invited member of the Strategic Advisory Council. She works with Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO), to plan ECMO service/education worldwide. Jayne is a member of the ECMO Education Workforce with the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ECMOed), the internationally recognised leader in ECMO. Jayne has contributed chapters in the ELSO “Red Book”.
Jayne has an active role in local education and research. She is an Education Lead for the Victorian ECMO Service (VECMOS) and a member of the VECMOS Education Sub Committee. Jayne is also involved in ECMO research including several multi-centre trials.
BBA, MBA, BNurs, MHSM
Richard Lim is currently the ICU Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) for both the Central Venous Accesses (CVADs) and Intra-Hospital Transports (IHT) after completing rigorous intensive training in 2017 and 2018 respectively under the auspices of ICU medical consultants.
He is responsible for inserting, advising on, and monitoring CVADs and arterial devices. He is the first in Australia to be fully accredited to transport critically-ill intubated ICU patients for diagnostic and interventional procedures, without other medical escort.
Additionally, in the last 5 years, he has been teaching, supervising, and accrediting medical doctors in CVAD & IHT. He is the first CNC in Victoria, and possibly for the whole of Australia, to perform such critical tasks. He implemented standardised and systematic teaching of medical doctors thus enhancing procedural safety and quality excellence.
Prior to the CVAD/IHT role, Richard held several roles in the Alfred ICU, from Liasion to PAN and from Burns Resource to ANUM. He has conducted several successful trials, some of which have become protocols. Richard worked in several countries, including involvement as a senior clinical manager with the ICU/ED units of a newly built tertiary hospital in Singapore. He was selected to be part of the Australian government’s regional health initiatives to teach trauma resuscitation in 2011-2012.
MAdvNursPrac, GradCertNurs(IntensiveCare
Jan joined the Alfred ICU in October 2014 and completed his Postgraduate Certificate in Intensive Care Nursing at La Trobe University in 2015. Since then, Jan has become an integral part of the team, working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, an Associate Nurse Unit Manager, ICU Liaison and now Clinical Nurse Consultant in Central Venous Access Devices. Working alongside Richard Lim, Jan inserts CVCs, Vascaths, PICCs, Midlines and Arterial Lines and supervises Junior Medical Staff in inserting lines.
Jan has a Masters in Advanced Nursing Practice from Melbourne University and is passionate about advancing nursing scope of practice through nurse lead Ultrasound Guided Cannula insertion and is interested in infection prevention especially central venous infections. Jan is also an Advanced Life Support Course Director and teaches on the ALS Instructor course. Outside of work Jan lives for his Wordle streak