Linda Grady

Intensive Care Nurse Specialist & Flight Nurse Dunedin Retrieval

BSc RGON  BN Master of Education PGCert in Critical Care PGCert in Leadership & Management

Linda is a small town girl – raised in Dunback and later moved to the big town of Palmerston Otago. She moved to Dunedin in early 70’s to attend university and has lived there, working at Dunedin Hospital ever since.
 
At the start of her working life she qualified as a Technician in Cardiology & Respiratory departments at Dunedin hospital. Then trained as a Registered Nurse and became Charge Nurse in Paediatric orthopaedics & surgery from the late 70s to mid 80s.
Returning to nursing following maternity leave in 1987, Linda worked nights as RN in Neurosurgery and ICU. 

She then undertook Flight Nurse training in 1994 and became ICU Educator in 1998

Linda is a Clinical Skills Tutor of 2nd & 3rd year Medical School students and is a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Otago University where she is the coordinator for the Dunedin site paper in Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical reasoning.

Linda's current position within Southern District Health Board is that of Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).  She believes in the achievement of clinical excellence and advancing expertise, not just within the ICU Team but throughout the entire organisation. The phenomenon, that the more you learn the more you want to know, is accurate and an absolute for Linda.  She has been successful with post graduate study in the fields of critical care, aeromedical retrieval, advanced health assessment, leadership and management and completed clinical masters in education. “All my postgraduate study, skill and experience has been aimed at improving the outcome and experience for my students, for my colleagues but more importantly for the patients and their families.”

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Linda will be discussing intensive care and helicopter rescue at the 'What to do when...' childhood health seminar at the Lake Wanaka Centre on July 30, 2016.