We have been very excited about releasing our discussion with Dr Dianne Crellin for some time now. Di is an emergency nurse practitioner at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) and senior lecturer coordinating the nurse practitioner program at Melbourne University’s Department of Nursing, and as you will hear she has an incredibly broad reach to her clinical and research interests. A past Executive Director of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia who has received the Julie Finucane AOM Medal for Leadership in Emergency Nursing, Di has way too many strings to her emergency nursing bow to cover in this brief introduction.

During this episode, John and Cliff cover a lot of ground with Di about pain assessment and management in children, distraction techniques, her experiences with AUSMAT and VMAT responding to disasters in South East Asia and Pacific regions as well as the ENP team at RCH ED. Luckily for us, Di is a self-described person who loves to chat and we hope you enjoy listening to her insights as much as we did.