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Simone O'Brien

Biography

Simone O'Brien is a Rural and Remote Nurse Practitioner who works in a small rural health service in Central Victoria that never knows what is going to walk through the door. She also works as a midwife and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner at a large regional hospital in Central Victoria. Simone was instrumental in setting up a NP outreach model of care for a rural health service that goes beyond age and chronic illness and delivers at home advanced health care to the most marginalised and isolated in the community. She is currently a member of the national expert advisory group for the CRANA rural nursing project. Prior to this, Simone has spent many years working in rural health across the life spectrum; she was a forensic nurse examiner for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and worked closely with victims of sexual assault, a pap nurse provider, a rural nurse educator, a midwife, and an occasional lecturer at LaTrobe University. Simone's most recent work includes NP locum stints across rural Victoria and business development of a model that provides NP services to aged care facilities and also onsite NP mentoring to RIPERNs, RNs, and ENs.

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