Clinical Pediatrics

Tona Gillen is a Registered Nurse, a Registered Sick Children Nurse (RSCN) and Registered General Nurse (RGN) with Grad Cert Paediatric Nursing (Emergency) with thirty years clinical practice, almost exclusively in critical care areas, and dedicated specifically to paediatrics for more than two decades. She currently work as the Trauma Nurse Manager at the only paediatric Major Trauma Centre (hospital) in Brisbane, Qld. Australia. This hospital serves children not only in Queensland but also in Northern New South Wales and the Pacific Rim. She is an Ambassador of Kidsafe and she has been a coordinator of Emergency Management of Severe Trauma (EMST/ ATLS) since 2007, with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).