Report from AVATAR state of the art in vascular access management seminar

About: Knowledge Broker AVATAR Sessional Academic - Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney Kaye has worked in intensive care for many years holding a variety of positions including clinical nurse specialist, nurse educator, clinical nurse unit manager, data manager and now knowledge manager. In 2004 she moved onto a statewide role as CNC for Knowledge Management for ICCMU and now as Clinical project officer. Some of her responsibilities include development and implementation of guidelines, moderating ICUConnect and developing online resources for the intensive care visitor. Her most recent achievement has been working with NSW clinicians to implement a tracheostomy guideline. This has resulting in significant reductions in morbidity and mortality for the patient with a tracheostomy. Kaye moved on from ICCMU at the end of 2016 and has joined the AVATAR team to develop a knowledge brokerage plan. Additionally she is now working with the Sydney Nursing School, part of the University of Sydney, as a sessional academic. Kaye has three areas of research and publication. A passion for ensuring critically ill patients receive excellent care has led to publications on oral and eye care and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and now a developing interest in vascular access management. Her next area of research focuses on evidence-based practice. In collaboration with Professor Doug Elliott she has developed a guideline development process using objective consensus methods. Her doctoral research program focuses on how social media and virtual communities can be used to facilitate the dissemination and uptake of knowledge in professional networks. This latter program has led to social media, Wiki and Twitter addictions. In her post-doc work Kaye hopes to combine all three areas of research by improving the uptake of evidence for vascular access management across Australian hospitals.