Lyvonne is an intensive care nurse with over 25 years’ experience, both in Australia and the UK. She has been a clinical nurse, manager, nurse educator, lecturer and following completion of her PhD in 2009 a clinical academic and nurse scientist. She continues to maintain her clinical PICU practice, whilst researching clinically relevant issues. Her main research theme focuses on improving nutrition and enteral feeding, but she also does work around improving the safety of endotracheal suction and suctioning practice, along with non-medical ventilation weaning and improving the safety of children in hospital, with the use of safer systems, educational interventions and early warning scores. She currently leads an NIHR HTA feasibility study on not measuring gastric residual volume in PICU a
more...Lyvonne is an intensive care nurse with over 25 years’ experience, both in Australia and the UK. She has been a clinical nurse, manager, nurse educator, lecturer and following completion of her PhD in 2009 a clinical academic and nurse scientist. She continues to maintain her clinical PICU practice, whilst researching clinically relevant issues. Her main research theme focuses on improving nutrition and enteral feeding, but she also does work around improving the safety of endotracheal suction and suctioning practice, along with non-medical ventilation weaning and improving the safety of children in hospital, with the use of safer systems, educational interventions and early warning scores. She currently leads an NIHR HTA feasibility study on not measuring gastric residual volume in PICU and NICUs and is a co-investigator on 4 other NIHR grants. She is currently the ESPNIC Nursing Past President, on the scientific committee of PCCS and on the NIHR HTA Funding panel for commisioned calls.