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Professor Ged Williams – Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders: 30 years of learning in 30 minutes Ged Williams is the Area Director of Nursing and Midwifery for South Metropolitan Health Service, Perth. He has a long history of inspiring and providing strategic leadership for the nursing profession through his many senior roles in diverse clinical settings. Ged has worked as the most senior nursing officer in major public health services in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, and the United Arab Emirates. He has fostered initiatives to promote contemporary knowledge and standards of practice, through leading the establishment of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses and was a Director of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine for eight years; he has used these positions to advocate for and support nursing development, and in particular low-income countries throughout the world. He actively promotes evidence-based approaches to quality improvement, workforce and community capacity building and clinical safety in health care and has contributed numerous research and practice-based publications throughout his career.
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