Charmayne is an experienced healthcare executive who has managed hospital teams over the past 20 years in public, private for profit and NFP hospitals in Victoria. With core personal values of Connection, Worth and Gratitude Charmayne's purpose is to :

• influence and operationally lead teams to know their worth to each other, their business and of course the patients they care for.
• coach and develop other leaders in areas of individual and organisational need.
• nurture and support her 4 boys at home- these are her 3 sons and her husband of 27 years Charmayne's Leadership journey from humble beginnings as a child to reaching exec positions in healthcare is one of joy, heartache and true resilience. Charmayne's love of people and key stakeholder management shines through. Today’s presentation is about breaking down barriers, knowing your worth, risk taking, getting uncomfortable and being “brave”

Rebecca graduated from Deakin University, Geelong in 2004 with a Bachelor of Nursing and undertook her Graduate training in a large private hospital in Melbourne where she developed her advanced nursing skills primarily in Perioperative Nursing for 7 years following this. Her passion to live on the land brought her back to her roots and she returned to Echuca Regional Health where she studied and completed a double Master’s Degree, a Masters of Nursing (Perioperative) and the Masters of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner). Her passion is preventative health, conservative treatment, general surgical and weight loss surgery, orthopaedic surgery and sports injuries, most importantly she treats her patients holistically never simply focussing on the complaint that is presented to her. She also served on the Australian College of Perioperative Nursing (ACORN) Board for 8 years, an additional 2 plus years at ACORN saw Rebecca under take the CEO role of the college where she lead ACORN through not only COVID and the impacts it had on Australia’s perioperative suites but a large Governance restructure.

Phyllis is a Registered Nurse with postgraduate qualifications in Operating Room Nursing and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Sector Management from the University of Technology Sydney. Phyllis is a Fellow of the Australian College of Perioperative Nurses and was awarded the Excellence in Perioperative Nursing (Individual) Award in May 2018. Following a long career in Public Sector Healthcare as the Manager of the Randwick Campus Operating Suite Phyllis was offered the opportunity to have a “sand change” and became the Director of Nursing Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital Dubai UAE. On their return to Australia Phyllis and Barry returned to Newcastle and she has been persuaded to take on some part time work as a Perioperative Consultant. For the last decade, Phyllis had worked with the Perioperative Nurses in Papua New Guinea providing support and assistance to the Papua New Guinea Perioperative Nurses Society. In 2018, Phyllis received the Order of Australia in the General Division (AM) for services to nursing, nursing education, nursing leadership and nursing international relations.

(prefered name: Juliana) Zvisinei Juliana Zvavanjanja, Clinical Nurse Consultant , Orthopaedics, The Sutherland Hospital Has worked as a RN in NSW health for more than 17 years. Has worked in orthopaedics speciality at RNSH, Mona vale, Campbelltown, and Wollongong hospital. During this time, she has cared for patient under various specialities including orthopaedics medicine, urology, gynaecology, colorectal etc.
Has worked at Wollongong hospital as the Clinical nurse educator the highlight was implementation of the fasting clock guidelines and criteria led discharge. Has had secondment for 7 months as the CNC osteoporosis re - fracture prevention at Port Kembla hospital. As the CNC orthopaedics at TSH she values the MDT (multi-disciplinary) support to implement various improvements in orthopaedics and enhance patient engagement/ education. The valuable MDT approach has seen successful implementation of day of surgery knee and hip replacement at The Sutherland hospital.