Janet Murray

Registered Nurse

Janet Murray is a confident and highly experienced nurse who has excelled in numerous clinical and community roles.

From April 2020, she has assisted in the COVID-19 GP Respiratory Clinic in Ballina, for First Light Healthcare, while continuing to work as a community palliative care nurse, delivering high quality care to those living and dying with a terminal illness at home.

Between 2009 and 2014, Janet worked at The Sanctuary intensive therapeutic retreat where she provided holistic, one-on-one nursing management of clients requiring acute drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Janet has also been responsible for the education of nursing staff at Southern Cross University and at John Flynn Private Hospital on the Gold Coast, where she worked as an intensive care nurse between 2003 and 2014. This demanding role included managing 30 multi-disciplinary team members.

Janet’s extensive nursing experience includes more than five years in the role of a medical retrieval nurse for Care Flight Services in Queensland. Often patients would need to be collected in adverse weather, or difficult locations, and require immediate emergency care. Janet possesses a calm and efficient presence, ensuring that those experiencing medical or life-threatening incidents are efficiently cared for.

Emigrating to Australia from the United Kingdom in 2003, she has volunteered her services for a not-for-profit community and worldwide fellowship supporting alcoholics for 18years.Janet previously worked as a senior intensive care curse and ECMO (life support) specialist at Glenfield University Hospital, Leicester United Kingdom; where she was part of a team involved in the setting up and facilitating a bereavement aftercare service, as suggested by the World Health Organisation to intensive care units internationally.

Janet holds a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Health Care Practice, as well as qualifications in teaching and assessing in clinical practice and palliative care.

In her spare time, she has previously been an active member of the Richmond River Sailing Club, enjoys bushwalking, hiking and the beach.

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