Shell Piercy

Shell is an experienced pre-hospital, emergency and urgent care nurse and clinical nurse educator with expertise in rural and remote healthcare, paramedicine, resuscitation and trauma.

Shell is an educator equipped to teach The Trauma Nursing Core Course for the Australian College of Emergency Nurses here in NZ.

Today, Shell is a Nurse Practitioner intern within a provincial emergency department and a rural GP service. Shell is also part of a team trailing extended care paramedics within rural GP and urgent care practices.

She is also a casual staff member for St John helping to save lives at the frontline.

Previously, Shell worked as a clinical nurse educator at an Auckland based urgent care clinic and staff nurse at Middlemore Emergency Department, whilst also teaching New Zealand Resuscitation Council Advanced Cardiac Life Support to acute area staff of the hospital. She also took part as a research assistant within the EDSANZ study at Middlemore Emergency Department.

Charge Nurse for Mt Ruapehu’s ski field urgent care clinics, Nursing Officer Lieutenant within the New Zealand Defence Force. Staff Nurse in the Wellington Emergency Department, Army Reserve Medic for the New Zealand Defence Force, Paramedic at Wellington Free Ambulance, and a medic aboard luxury yachts in Southern France are just some of the challenging and varied roles that have seen Shell care for thousands of patients in times of crisis over the last few decades.

Shell holds a Bachelor of Nursing through Massey University and a Bachelor of Health Science with a major Paramedicine from Auckland University of Technology. She also has extensive postgraduate study across research, emergency nursing and paramedicine from Victoria University, AUT and Otago. 

Shell is a member of a number of industry bodies including NZNO, CENNZ, AENN, CINZ, ACEN and NZCPHCN. She is a founding member of NZCPHCN Urgent Care Nurses Network. Shell is also a member of the NZCPHCN professional practice committee.

Shell says she is pleased to be part of ACEhub and a new era of continuing professional development for nurses - one that provides accessible evidence-based, best practice education. "Standardising training, such as triage, and offering it online in a palatable, modern platform helps busy nurses easily upskill, and ultimately improve patient outcomes for our country."