Holly, originally from Scotland, obtained her Bsc Nursing from Napier University in Edinburgh. She has a certificate Infection Prevention and Control from Sydney Eye Hospital.
Holly moved to Australia in 2002 and started her Australian nursing career, like all other UK nurses as an agency nurse, in the private health sector on a working holiday and 20 years later hasn’t left! Holly has 11 years’ experience working as an Infection and Control Clinical Nurse Consultant across both small and large private metropolitan hospitals on the Australian mainland and latterly her experience is in the public sector in regional Australia. Holly draws on her previous nursing experience from working in the fields of Cardio-thoracic, ICU and CCU.
Holly currently works in the newly developed position as Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Nurse Educator based in Launceston General Hospital, Tasmanian Health Service. Which is an exciting, challenging and rewarding new chapter of her career in Infection Prevention and control.