Skye Gray
Meet Skye from MLHD. Skye is employed by MLHD as a Nurse Practitioner specialising in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Chronic Heart Failure (CHF), she also has a role as a Nurse Practitioner specialising in General Practice in a busy medical centre situated within the Riverina.
My role within the Living Well, Your Way is to provide evidence based knowledge and experience to support the development and implementation of a care pathway for people who have COPD or CHF.
In my practice I promote working in partnership with people with a chronic disease to improve their quality of life by assisting them with symptom management, to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and ED presentations. Early intervention to manage changes in symptoms can allow the person with COPD/CHF to be successfully managed by their local GP, and to recover in their familiar home environment.
Living Well. Your Way project is important to the region as it promotes a continuum of care between the community services and the hospital setting. The project incorporates all stakeholders that have a direct and indirect impact on the care pathway, to promote best outcomes for people with COPD/CHF.
I feel that I am well positioned working within the public and private health sectors to advocate a smooth transition of care for people with COPD/CHF. I have been working alongside people with chronic disease for over 10 years. I am excited to be part of this project to develop a care pathway, improve access to specialist services and implement resources that may lessen the symptom burden of living with a chronic disease. I believe that it is paramount for the healthcare team to work in partnership beside people with COPD/CHF to empower them to take control of their chronic disease and self- manage to the top of their capacity.
