Episode 26 - Margaret Murphy

Dr Margaret Murphy is a clinical nurse consultant at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. Margaret has over 26 years of experience as a senior emergency nurse clinician, leader, and change agent. In addition to working in emergency, she has had experience and qualifications in Intensive Care, Mental Health, Change Management and Education. Margaret has worked as a principal project officer at the NSW Ministry of Health and has been a content expert for several Commissions of Inquiry (Special Commission of Inquiry into the Campbelltown and Camden Hospitals; Hughes Walters Inquiry into early pregnancy care in NSW Emergency Departments; Drug inquiry into amphetamine use in NSW). Margaret holds executive and advisory positions with NSW Health, Emergency Care Institute and Westmead Hospital Clinical Board. Dr Murphy has consulted nationally and internationally on emergency care and participated in teaching programs in Nepal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Bangkok. She has been recognised by peers with awards that include Westmead Hospital Nurse of the Year. Her research has focused on demonstrating an association between team training, improved health service delivery and patient outcomes in major trauma patients. This research has been translated into recommendations for training curriculum and implementation methods. On the podcast we discuss the role of an ED CNC, Margaret’s trauma teamwork research interests, some of Margaret's emergency care innovations, as well as HiRAID (an evidence-based assessment framework designed to structure the initial patient assessment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) after triage. We hope you enjoy our chat with Margaret as much as we did.