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 was the first Queensland State-wide Paediatric Sepsis Clinical Nurse Consultant in Australia. Amanda is the paediatric nursing representative on the Queensland Sepsis Steering Committee, was a member of the National Sepsis Clinical Reference Group, lead by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and the Australian paediatric and nursing representative for the Global Sepsis Alliance platform. Amanda is an Emergency Nurse, assessor for AHPRA, a panel assessor for the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Director of the Paediatric Emergency Nursing Course. Amanda has her masters in critical care, post-graduate qualification in education and PhD. Her PhD investigated the recognition and management of paediatric sepsis in the ED. Her CNC role involved supporting the implementation of a paediatric sepsis pathway in EDs and inpatient units throughout QLD, alongside state-wide, national and international education design and delivery.
She has been involved in and instigated a number of research projects around sepsis in the ED, led the first and only multi-site ED paediatric sepsis Randomised Controlled Trial on early inotropes and is the recipient of multiple research grants. Amanda is passionate about sepsis recognition and management and the roles nurses' play.
​Her current role as a Clinical Excellence and Implementation Assistant Director of Nursing focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of initiatives to improve health service delivery. By undertaking clinical practice with research and quality improvement she is encouraging others to do the same.

 

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