2011 Winner - Karen Matthews

The winner of the 2011 CONNI Award is Karen Matthews from Blue Care in Brisbane. Karen was presented with her award on 16th Nov at the National Continence Foundation of Australia conference held at Crown in Melbourne. (see photo with Managing Director of CONNI, Glenys Drayton) 
Karen is a Continence Nurse Advisor and is responsible for the clinical management of continence issues in the Brisbane cluster for Blue Care. 

Of the many projects Karen is involved with she is currently representing nursing on the panel for reviewing the learning package being developed by RCH Brisbane, addressing various continence issues in children. She has also facilitated successful Continence Nurse Advisors courses with UoQ.

Karen has won a trip to the ICS Conference in Beijing in 2012. See Karen's report here.