PLENARY: Blood and Bones: It's Time to Iron it Out
Friday, October 27, 2017 |
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM |
Golden Ballroom |
Speaker
Ms Angie Monk
PBM Clinical Nurse
Joondalup Health Campus
Blood and Bones: It's Time to Iron it Out
Biography
Ms Angie Monk is the Patient Blood Management (PBM) Clinical Nurse Consultant at Joondalup Health Campus.
Angie was the first PBM Clinical Nurse Consultant in Australia to successfully implement a program driven by the ‘three pillars of patient blood management’ at a private hospital. This comprehensive program involves screening at-risk patients and preparing them prior to surgery to reduce their risk of needing a blood transfusion.
Providing ROTEM (Thromboelestrometry) technology to rapidly reverse coagulopathy using targeted therapy in critically bleeding patients.
Her extensive work in patient blood management and safety was formally recognised when she was awarded the 2016 ‘HESTA Australian Nurse of the Year’ award
