Tricia Kleidon ​

PENS course Faculty

Tricia Kleidon is a Paediatric Vascular Access Nurse Practitioner at Queensland Children’s Hospital, and research fellow at the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR).  Tricia has established nurse led vascular access insertion services in the UK and Australia and she promotes an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to planning and managing vascular access to ensure best practice. Tricia’s major research interest focuses on translating knowledge into practice and ensuring the right device is inserted into the right patient, using the right technology to minimise patient harm and promote vessel health and preservation.  Tricia’s dual role between clinical and research activities provides unique opportunities to improve vascular access outcomes for paediatric patients.  Tricia is internationally recognised as an expert in paediatric vascular access, she was named the Association for Vascular Access Janet Petit Scholar, 2019 and is part of the review committee for the Infusion Nursing Society, Standards of Practice. 

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