This Emergency Life - A Podcast

15 Jul

Episode 3 - Clare Skinner

July 2020

This week on the podcast we speak with Dr Clare Skinner. Clare is the Director of Emergency Medicine at Hornsby Kuring-Gai Hospital in Sydney, a Curriculum Advisor for the Sydney Medical Schools and has been recognised as one of the Top 50 Public Sector Women (NSW) list.

Clare shares her thoughts on ED workplace culture, workforce, patient safety, being kind to each other in the department and the people who influence our practice. We also discussed a few of Clare's internet essays and blogs which give a wonderfully conversational view of Clare's influences and thoughts about the care we provide.

Clare is also the driving force behind a COVID-19 inspired virtual choir and orchestra comprised of ED doctors, nurses and colleagues making music together for health care worker wellbeing. Check out the work of ED Musos by following @EDMusos on Twitter and their cover of Billy Joel's 'Stay at Home' State of Mind on YouTube. You’re bound to recognise a colleague or two.

Clare Skinner

Dr Clare Skinner is a specialist emergency physician with interests in leadership, advocacy, workplace culture, quality and safety, clinical redesign and health system reform. Her current areas of focus include transformation of the emergency department workforce, improving care of people with mental health symptoms, building positive culture in hospitals, and fostering diversity and inclusion in health services. Clare works as a clinician, manager and educator. She is a frequent contributor to academic journals, mainstream media and medical blogs on topics related to hospital practice and culture. Clare is a regular speaker at emergency medicine and leadership conferences and seminars. She was selected in the Top 50 Public Sector Women NSW in 2018.

https://clareskinner.com

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