Lyns Sutton
Teaching Fellow
School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice
Qualifications
MNclin, RNdip
Profile
Lynsey Sutton-Smith is an Intensive care Clinical Nurse Specialist working at Wellington Regional Hospital.
Lynsey graduated from Nottingham University in the UK in 1996 and has a wealth of experience in critical care units across the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
She is part time teaching fellow at the School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, where she has focussed on coordinating HLTH 514 advanced assessment paper and is part of the teaching team for HLTH 517 diagnostics and therapeutics.
Lynsey is passionate about ICU and critical care with a specific focus on improving patient outcomes through clinical leadership, audit and data collection and small project development.
Her area of clinical interest is around the care of the long term patient and how nurses can ameliorate the poor long term outcomes and sequale associated with survival from a critical illness.
Research Interests
- Delirium
- Post ICU outcomes and post ICU syndrome.
- Long term patient care, management and outcomes.
- Quality improvement projects and influencing patient outcomes at the bedside.
Current Projects
Delirium in the ICU; assessment, prevention and management using a clinical pathway and sedation algorithm.
Recently completed supervision and/or research projects
Improvement of enteral nutrition for ICU patients (quality improvement project) policy development and educational roll out unit wide.
Development of nursing influenced care initiative’s. This was also a QI improvement project which relates to data collection around 7 key aspects of nursing care that have been proven to improve patient outcomes. The aim is to influence nursing nurses to think about these key aspects, engrain into the culture of their practice and workplace using by the use of audit and feedback.
Publications
- Rebecca J Jarden and Lynsey J Sutton (2015). A practice change initiative to improve the provision of enteral nutrition to intensive care patients. Nursing in critical care, 20, 5, September, pp 242–255
- Lynsey J. Sutton and Annemarie Jutel. (2016). Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in Critically Ill Patients: Identification, Assessment, and Management. Crit Care Nurse, February, 36, 1 pp 28–38
- Lynsey J. Sutton and Rebecca J. Jarden. (2016). Improving the quality of nurse‐influenced patient care in the intensive care unit, Nursing in Critical Care, 22, 6, pp 339–347
- Rebecca J Jarden, Lynsey Sutton‐Smith and Catherine Boulton (2018). Oral intake evaluation in patients following critical illness: an ICU cohort study, Nursing in Critical Care.