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Associate Professor Ged Williams
RN, RM, Crit. Care Cert., Grad. Cert. PSM, Bach. App. Sc. (Adv. Nursing), Grad. Cert Law, LLM (QUT), MHA (UNSW), FRCNA, FCN NSW, FACHSE.
Director of Nursing, Maroondah Hospital, Victoria, Australia (Current)
Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Melbourne
Founding Chair, World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (Since 2001)
Director, World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine (2001-2009)
Former President/Treasurer Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (1997–2001)
Ged is the Director of Nursing at Maroondah Hospital, a 300+ general public Hospital East of Melbourne, Victoria. He has also held adjunct
Associate Professor of Nursing positions with a number of Australian Universities.
Previously he has been the Executive Director of Nursing Services at the Alice Springs Hospital, in Central Australia from 1996 - 2003
and concurrently held the position of Principal Nurse Consultant for the Northern Territory from 2000 - 2003.
Ged is a registered nurse with postgraduate qualifications in midwifery, critical care nursing, Health Administration, Public Sector
Management and Law. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia and the Australian College of Health Care Executives and a
Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is Foundation Chair of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses and a
Director with the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine. He also spent four years on the
Nurses Board of the Northern Territory and is an International Advisor to the American Nursing Credentialing Centre since 2003.
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Ged's research and publication interests are broad including workforce planning, clinical practice, education and training program development and other management and leadership issues in nursing and health. He has over 30 peer-reviewed publications and is regularly involved in strategic nursing activities at the state, national and international level.
Ged was Associate editor for Australian Critical Care Journal from 1995-2000 and is currently an Associate Editor with CONNECT: The official journal of the WFCCN and is used as a peer reviewer and guest editor in a number of journals. From 1997 - 99 he accepted the role of National President of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses and led their transformation to establish the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses as a single national college and company.
His passion is working with nursing teams and people in developing communities.
For his international work, Ged has been entered into the 23rd Edition of Who's Who of the World, 2006.
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