Stephanie Eccott is a registered nurse with over 40 years of experience in various nursing roles in Australia and England. She has worked in areas such as intensive care, palliative care, aged care, surgical nursing, and as a continence advisor. Most recently she has specialized in aged care, focusing on dementia. She has extensive qualifications and training. Her resume demonstrates her broad skills and experience in nursing, as well as her commitment to providing quality, compassionate care.

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RESUME – STEPHANIE ANN ECCOTT
REGISTERED NURSE
Name Stephanie Ann Eccott
Address Unit 1/4 Binnar Court
Erskine 6210
Western Australia
Telephone (08) 9586 1869
0405 933 226
Email Stephanie.eccott8@bigpond.com
CAREER OBJECTIVES
I entered the nursing profession as a young trainee with a genuine wish to care for persons
suffering from ill health. Through the course of my professional career I have had many
experiences which have confirmed for me that I made the right career choice.
I trained in England, including at Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, which
provides an extremely professional and rigorous training.
I have had a very varied career, including being a ward nurse, a ward co-ordinator, palliative
carer, burns speciality, intensive/critical care nurse, continence advisor, gynaecological
nurse, grief counsellor, flight nurse and surgical nurse.
More recently I have specialised in aged care, with some dementia specific aspects. I have
found this to be an area where skills I have gained through the course of my career can be
put to good use, and where I am able to make a difference to both the physical and mental
wellbeing of my clients on a daily basis.
Through the course of my career I have also been involved in the mentoring and training of
students, as well as newly enrolled or registered nurses.
I believe that a critical aspect of nursing is communication with patients and their family,
ensuring that they are well informed and provided with a safe and supportive environment
to learn about and come to terms with their medical diagnoses. I have assisted people, and
their families, to come to terms with many varied chronic illnesses, such as dementia,
asthma, COAD, asbestosis, mesothelioma, diabetes and continence.
I am passionate about the standard of care nurses give to clients. The experience a patient
and their family undergo whilst in a health care environment can be life altering and nursing
staff have the ability to make a lasting difference to the patients, and their families,
experience.

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PERSONAL HEALTH
I suffered an injury to my back in 2003. I received treatment for this injury and have since
resumed working as a nurse. Since I resumed working I have not had any issues with my
back which have affected my ability to carry out my duties, at and above, the level required.
I am confident that this will continue to be the case into the future.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS and PERSONALATTITUDE
 Broad ‘hands on’ experience in nursing and related health areas
 Critical care nursing
 Palliative care nursing
 Conflict resolution skills and ability to take control in crisis situations
 Ability to work in demanding situations, multi task and meet deadlines
 Proven ability to work as an effective team members and leader
 Counselling in grief and trauma situations
 Mentoring and teaching
 Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills
 Problem solving and decision making skills
 Able to liaise, relate and negotiate at all levels
 A friendly, efficient and polite manner
 Analytically minded and task oriented
 Excellent work habits with attention to detail

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QUALIFICATIONS
2000 Advanced Surgical Nursing Certificate
Mount Hospital, Perth
1999 Hollywood Hospital Continence Course
Curtin University, Perth
1978 First Line and Middle Management
Officer Command School, UK
1977 Aeromedical Nurse Training
RAF (H), UK
1972 – 75 Hospital based Registered Nurse Training
Cheltenham General Hospital, UK
COURSES, SEMINARS, TRAINING
Palliative Care Certified
Practice and theory of Phlebotomy and ECG Pathology Foundation, July 2011
A problem solving approach to clinical practice High Dependency
Continence Advisors Curtin University / Hollywood Hospital
Short ICU Course Mater Misercordiae Hospital Townsville.
Grief Counselling Cottage Hospice.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2011– Present Bestwest Care Nursing Agency.
 Emergency Department
 General Surgery, Medical, Gynae,
Orthopaedics, Pre and post operative.
 Wound Management.
 Medication Management.
 Aged Care: Care plans.
 ACFI assessment.
 Incident and report writing.
 Grief Counselling.
 Palliative care.
 Dementia.
 Empathy and communication at all levels.
 Precepting and education.
2007 Caring for my terminally ill husband until his death
2005 – 2007 Palliative care in the Home
British Nursing Association (BNA), UK
 All aspects of palliative care
 Providing clinical & psychosocial support
 Liaison with General Practitioners
2002 – 2004 Registered Nurse
Royal Perth Hospital, WA
 All aspects of nursing care
 HDU, CCU, ICU, and Immunology
 Bone marrow transplants
 Continence Advisor
 Maintaining patient records
 Mentor and advocate

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1999 – 2002 Joondalup Health Campus, WA Joondalup / Glengarry
and the health community (Lancelin to Osborne Park)
 Setting up continence service unit
 Continence Nurse Consultant
 Relieving Nurse Manager
 Clinical Nurse Level 2
1997 - 1999 Clinical Nurse
Royal Perth Hospital, WA
 Acute Rapid transit Transfer Ward.
 Cardiology
 Oncology
 Renal
 Gastro-enterology
 Acute Surgery
 Respiratory
 Death / grief Counselling
 Psychological Support
 All aspects of nursing and teaching
1995 – 97 Clinical Nurse
Royal Perth Hospital, WA
 Staff Development Nurse
 Acute Medical Unit
1988 – 95 Clinical Nurse
Royal Perth Hospital, WA
 Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit
 High Dependency Unit
 Head and Neck surgery
I have populated my resume with the last 20 years of my career as I believe this to be
adequate in demonstrating my qualifications and in providing a representative mix of my
skills. I amhappy to supply more information on request.
REFEREES
Julie Twyford Margaret Lund Bestwest Care
Clinical Nurse Clinical Nurse Nursing Agency
9593 9300 9593 4146 / 0406 460 880 9439 1673