Dr Amanda Harley

PENS course Faculty

Clinical Nurse Consultant 
QLD Statewide Paediatric Sepsis
Gold Coast University Hospital
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PhD in Paediatric Spesis in Emergency Department 

Dr Amanda Harley is a Clinical Nurse Consultant based at Queensland Children’s Hospital. Amanda has her Masters in Critical Care, Post-grad in Education and is a PhD candidate investigating recognition and management of paediatric sepsis in the ED. Her current role as the Statewide coordinator in the Paediatric Sepsis Collaborative has her involved in the development, implementation, education and evaluation of a statewide paediatric sepsis pathway in Emergency Departments (ED) throughout QLD. 
 
Amanda is concurrently the study co-ordinator for a paediatric sepsis randomised controlled trial (RESPOND), investigating a fluid-sparing algorithm and metabolic support in resuscitation of children with sepsis. Amanda is passionate about sepsis recognition and management and the roles in which nurses' play. By undertaking clinical practice with research and quality improvement she is encouraging others to do the same. She has been involved in and instigated a number of research projects around sepsis in the ED and is the recipient of multiple research grants. Incorporating many different roles in her repertoire has allowed for her multidimensional practice and broadened her understanding of the skills required to be an effective ED nurse and researcher delivering world class patient care.
 

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