Maria Kathleen Camaya
Graduated 2019
The majority of my experience is with the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at SickKids Hospital. I have been a Registered Nurse with SickKids for over 10 years and acquired many skills and knowledge. I've expanded my clinical skills to include: Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, NovaLung, and a member of the Code Blue Team.
I am also passionate about ensuring the PICU team has current information to help guide patient and family care. I was a member of the Quality and Safety Team as a Safety Champion for about 4 years (2015-2019). In this role, I shared valuable information for near misses as well as enhancing clinical skills and knowledge to optimize patient safety. I took on the lead of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and provided bedside teaching and used evidence based data to help guide research.
I am currently a member of the PICU's Nursing Practice Council. In this role, my goal is to assess the educational needs of bedside nurses and how might we best address possible learning gaps. Other extra-curricular projects include: SickKids IV Pump Project and a member of the CCU Design Team for Inter-professional Rounds.
In 2019, I successfully graduated from the Translational Research Program (TRP) at U of T with a Master in Health Sciences. In our last year, my Capstone group and I utilized a mixed-methods approach to assess the needs of food insecure students. We chose to use a convenience sample: students that utilize campus-based food banks. My group and I collaborated with multiple stakeholders to understand the problem space as thoroughly as possible. We also utilized knowledge translation techniques to ensure our network of stakeholders were updated. In addition, our group created U of T's first Hunger Report.
I look forward to expanding my skills and knowledge as well as seeking new opportunities within health innovation.