Holly is a Registered Nurse and Midwife who is feels very privileged to have spent over 30 years clinically engaged in critical care nursing areas. Her experience includes adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care. Holly has specialized in the area of organ and tissue donation over the past 10 years; and had extensive experience in caring and advocating for patients and their families; and supporting and guiding staff in facilitating donation care.

Holly has represented the ACT on a number on national committees reviewing organ and tissue donation and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for the National Organ Donation Collaborative. Holly is at present a PhD candidate researching the ‘The factors that influence families who decline organ donation’.

Holly is passionate about ensuring that nurses are supported by excellence in education, to ensure they are best able to meet the needs of patients, their families and our community.

Teaching

Postgraduate Critical Care Nursing: teaching including the units ‘Applied Technology in Critical Care’, ‘Pathophysiology of Critical Illness’, ‘Critical Care Nursing Practice’.

Undergraduate: teaching including the units ‘Ethics and Law for Health Professionals ‘and ‘Analyzing Disease’.

Research

Interests

• Special interests relate to organ donation and transplantation. 
• As a PhD Candidate she is exploring the question, ‘The factors that influence families who decline organ donation’.

Recent Publications

• 2011 Reviewer, Australian College of Critical Care Nursing, (2011) text book, ‘Critical Care Nursing’.
• 2011 Evaluation Report; ‘Organ and Tissue Donor and Transplant Recipient Coordinators’ Advanced Course’ for the Australian Organ Donation and Transplantation Authority.
• 2009 ‘Neonatal Organ Donation, Is there a future?’ Presented International Organ Donation Congress, ISODP Berlin
• 2007- 2009: A series of presentations to the National Organ Donation Collaborative Conferences.  
• 2007 Churchill Report: ‘An investigation to gain comprehensive knowledge to assist in the introduction of ethical guidelines, and learn how to provide information to the Australian community about the processes and benefits of organ donation after cardiac death’.This was presented to the Churchill Trust and published on line 2007, Churchill Report. The findings have been presented in many venues locally and nationally.
• 2007: Presented ‘Have we asking all the wrong questions?’ findings from research to the Australian Society for Medical Research Medical Research Week.
• 2006: Presented ‘Have we asking all the wrong questions?’ findings from research to the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Scientific Meeting. 
• 2006: Masters Thesis (unpublished): ‘Have we asking all the wrong questions?’  A pilot survey exploring public expectations and understanding about organ and tissue donation’.

Research Grants and Awards

• 2011 Contracted to provide an Evaluation of the ‘Organ and Tissue Donor and Transplant Recipient Coordinators’ Advanced Course’ for the Australian Organ Donation and Transplantation Authority.
• 2010-Gift of Life Organ Donation Foundation, Ben Wiseman Award for Health Care.
• 2008 Australian of the Year Awards: Finalist ‘Local Hero Award’ 
• 2006 Churchill Fellow,  ‘An investigation to gain comprehensive knowledge to assist in the introduction of ethical guidelines, and learn how to provide information to the Australian community about the processes and benefits of organ donation after cardiac death’.
• 2004 Commissioner of Public Administration Award.