Keynote Speaker

Judy S. Smith, RN MSN CRNI®
Clinical Nurse Expert – Venous Access Team                                            

Judy S. Smith, MSN, RN, CRNI®, earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing and her Master of Science in Nursing from Loyola University, New Orleans, focusing on Health Care Systems Management.  She has completed three graduate level courses in Nursing Education through a grant funded program sponsored by the Texas Governor’s office. She has practiced for sixteen years at the Seton Healthcare Family in Austin, Texas, as a staff nurse, charge nurse, unit educator, interim clinical manager, and is currently serving as Clinical Nurse Expert for the Venous Access Team.  She holds a national certification in infusion nursing.  Her research study entitled, “Autonomy and Self-Efficacy as Influencing Factors in Nurses Behavioral Intention to Disinfect Needleless Intravenous Systems,” was published in the May/June 2011 issue of the Journal of Infusion Nursing.  Her current research focuses on optimal disinfection times for needleless intravenous connectors.

Keynote Presenters Abstracts

Invited Speakers

Steve Chadwick - Previous MP for Rotorua

My family has called Rotorua home for 33 years. John and I brought our children up here and I wouldn't live anywhere else. I've been a midwife, a manager at Rotorua Hospital, a district councillor, and the MP for Rotorua for the last nine years.It has been a privilege to serve Rotorua and I am proud of the gains we have achieved.It has taken hard work and tenacity, but Rotorua can now boast a secure hospital, more pre-schools and education facilities, lower teacher-pupil ratios, improved community safety, long-term funding to clean up our lakes, low unemployment, improved services for young people, Treaty settlements, arts, tourism, environment - all flourishing, all thriving. It is community that makes Rotorua a great place to live. I work hard to ensure the best outcomes for all of us. My local knowledge and networks keep me informed, and I enjoy fruitful partnerships with government departments, council, voluntary and community organisations and tangata whenua. I believe in making things happen.

Carolyn Wilson RN PGCert (Nursing)

Carolyn is currently employed as the Unit Manager for cardiology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Waikato Hospital. Her previous roles have included Charge Nurse Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist for Intravenous Therapy and Medicine Management. Carolyn has been a member of IVNNZ Inc. since 1998. Carolyn served on the IVNNZ Inc. Executive committee from 1999 to 2004 in the role of Educator. The major project of IVNNZ Inc. since 2002 has been a national collective. This piece of work has had many changes of both names and direction since it was begun in 2002. Carolyn will be discussing this journey when she co-presents the launch of the IVNNZ Inc. Standards of Infusion Therapy.

Carey Campbell RN BN PGDip MHPrac

Carey is the Chief Nurse Advisor for the Southern Cross Hospitals network - a position she has held since October 2008. Prior to this she held a variety of clinical, education and nursing leadership roles at Waikato District Health Board. Carey completed her initial nursing training at Waikato Technical Institute (currently Wintec), gained her BN through Massey University and more latterly a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management and a Master in Health Practice at Auckland University of Technology. Her dissertation involved an evidence-based practice approach to the topic of "Early Warning Scoring Systems: Do they improve care?". Carey has a keen interest in quality systems and processes as well a passion for promoting and advancing nursing practice and the nursing profession. She was a member of a winning team at the 2007 New Zealand Health Innovation Awards for implementation of nurse-led preadmission processes. She was appointed as Chair of the NZPSHA Directors of Nursing group in September 2009. She is a member of Nurse Executives of New Zealand (NENZ), the joint regional co-ordinator for the Waikato branch of the College of Nurses Aotearoa and also acts as a Nursing Council of New Zealand assessor and panel member for Nurse Practitioner assessment panels. 

Carolyn Stewart RN MSoc Sc

Carolyn is Nurse Consultant Learning and Development for Southern Cross Hospitals.  Prior to this she lectured in Nursing at WINTEC for 10 years, was an Infection Control Nurse at Waikato DHB a Nurse Advisor (licensing) for the Ministry of Health a Medical representative and worked as an RN at Waikato Hosptial and in the community.  Carolyn’s initial nursing education was completed at WINTEC in 1985 followed by a BN in 1997.  She gained her BSocSc and a MSocSc at the University of Waikato in Hamilton and her thesis explored the NZ health reforms in the 1990’s.  Research and an international presentation on nursing student’s attitudes to difference won Carolyn an international award at the NETNEP Nurse Educators Conference in 2007.  Her passion is nursing education focusing recently on the development of online and blended learning for Southern Cross Hospitals.  This has included a blended medicines management certification module now delivered nationally – online

Dr Michael Addidle

Michael graduated from Edinburgh University in 1996 and completed Specialist Training in Clinical Microbiology in Glasgow in 2006. He then emigrated to New Zealand and has been with Pathlab Bay of Plenty since the beginning of 2007. Michael gained considerable experience in General Medicine and Infectious Diseases before entering Clinical Microbiology. He also completed a Diploma in  Tropical Medicine at Liverpool in 1997. Michael is a member of Infection Control Committees at Tauranga Hospital and various other private institutions throughout the Waikato/Bay of Plenty regions. He has a particular interest in education and gives regular lectures to different professional groups within the Infection Community. Michael’s professional interests include Infection in Injecting Drug Users, ESBL producing bacteria, and Hepatitis Serology.

Dr Addidle CV

Dr David Laidlow

Dr. David Laidlow is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Rotorua. He trained in Sheffield (UK), and worked in the UK, Nigeria, the Channel Islands, the Royal Air Force, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Apart from Anaesthesia, his interest is in Resuscitation, and he is currently the Chair of the Lakes DHB Resuscitation Committee. He is a NZRC instructor. His passions are anaesthesia, DIY, flying and sailing.

David will take you on a 40 year journey in IV access, including some of the tragedies associated with invasive procedures, to arrive at the present time. Which cannula should you choose?What size?Which fluid?Colloid or crystalloid?Albumin or starch? Does it really matter?

Andrew Jackson RGN

Andrew qualified as a Registered Nurse in February 1988. He has held a Senior IV Nurse role since 1995. In 2001, six years following the start of his IV career Andrew was appointed as the first IV Nurse Consultant in the UK.  Working in a 600-bedded district general hospital, Andrew splits his time between clinical, educational, research and leadership activities. However, the vast majority of his time is occupied with clinical work. Interest is demonstrated in all aspects of IV therapy and care, with a particular focus on ultrasound guided vascular access, staff education, policy integration, innovation review and preventing premature device failure. However, Andrew is happy to admit that apart from direct patient care the most enjoyable part of his role is using his  leadership style to make IV therapy knowledge and skills more accessible and understandable to all. Achievements include, the introduction of a hospital-wide vascular access team and the development of a peripheral IV site monitoring tool ‘the VIP score’. The Visual Infusion Phlebitis Score is suggested as a useful IV site checking tool by the Department of Health in the UK and the tool has recently been recommended in the 2011 update of the Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. Andrew also holds the post of Honorary Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Research activities have included a pilot study that examined bacterial grown underneath IV dressings and a multi-center trial that examined a closed IV catheter system. His work is nationally recognized, Andrew was highly commended in the Nursing Standard 2001 awards and he was winner of the surgical category of the 2001 Trent nurse of the year awards. Andrew is an accomplished international speaker. Apart from various local speaking engagements, international speaking activities have included Rome, Dublin and Amsterdam. In addition Andrew completed a ten-day lecture tour of Australia and examined community IV services during a travel scholarship to New Zealand. Finally, Andrew has worked as an expert witness and has been involved in a number of product innovation development programs. Andrew also advises on national groups such as SMART SOLUTIONS FOR HCAI, EPIC2, NICE, and RCN. In his spare time Andrew also runs an IV news website at www.ivteam.com and an online intravenous journal at www.ivjournal.com