Advanced Critical Care
Mechanical ventilation, CRRT, IABP, PiCCO and haemodynamics for adult and paediatric ICU patients.
Melbourne · Critical Care · Executive Operations
Clinical rigour, brought to executive operations.
Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the CAQA Groups — an AHPRA-endorsed Nurse Practitioner and clinician educator whose leadership is grounded in more than 15 years of intensive care practice and eight years of university teaching.
Chief Operating & Financial Officer · CAQA Groups
Nurse Practitioner (AHPRA Endorsed)
Clinical Nurse Specialist — ICU
Nursing Lecturer, RMIT University
Dual Master's, University of Melbourne
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0Verified advanced practice hours
0Years clinical experience
0Years in higher education
0Procedures verified competent
NPAHPRA endorsed
Professional Summary
Equal parts clinician and educator — now steering the group.
Raj Kiran Kaur is an AHPRA-endorsed Nurse Practitioner and clinician educator whose professional identity is embedded equally in critical care practice and higher education. Across more than 15 years she has delivered specialist intensive care nursing at The Northern Hospital, Northern Health, accumulating over 6,800 verified hours of advanced practice while sustaining eight years of continuous nursing lecturing at RMIT University.
As Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the CAQA Groups, she brings that same evidence-informed discipline — clinical governance, quality improvement and time-critical decision making — to the operations and financial stewardship of a national group.
Core Expertise
From the bedside to the boardroom.
The disciplines behind a career spanning intensive care, university teaching and group leadership.
Nurse Practitioner Practice
AHPRA-endorsed advanced practice with 6,800+ verified hours against endorsement requirements.
Clinical Education
Lectures, tutorials and clinical facilitation across diploma and bachelor nursing programmes.
Curriculum & OSCE Design
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations designed, conducted and quality-assured across cohorts.
Clinical Governance
Standard 8 Clinical Improvement Committee membership and programme policy contribution.
Acute Deterioration Response
Every MET call, Code Blue and REACH escalation across the hospital, directing care under pressure.
Quality Improvement
MET and Code Blue databases, TPN monitoring and reporting for ICU senior leadership.
Mentorship & Supervision
Resource person and clinical mentor for new graduate RNs and student nurses.
“Teaching authority is earned at the bedside — in current, frontline practice.The Kaur approach
In Practice
Care-grade discipline, in motion.
The same rigour that runs a high-acuity ward now runs group operations and finance — measured, accountable and calm under pressure.
Inside frontline clinical practice
Career Highlights
Signature milestones
A record built in one of Australia's busiest hospitals and one of its largest universities.
COFO
Group Executive
Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the CAQA Groups and Career Calling International — operations and financial stewardship for a national education group.
2025
Dual Master's Completed
Master of Advanced Nursing Practice in the Nurse Practitioner stream (2025) and Critical Care Nursing stream (2023), both from the University of Melbourne.
MET
The Hospital's Safety Net
Responds to every Medical Emergency Team call, Code Blue and REACH escalation across The Northern Hospital, directing care during acute deterioration events.
2018
Eight Years at RMIT
Continuous nursing lecturing across the Diploma of General Nursing and Bachelor of Nursing programmes, from foundational to advanced content.
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Verified Competence
Formally verified as competent across 17 specialist clinical procedures — from advanced mechanical ventilation to Swan-Ganz catheter management.
OSCE
Assessment as Inquiry
Designs, conducts and evaluates OSCE assessments with standardised criteria and rigorous quality assurance — treating assessment design as applied educational research.
Let's collaborate
Precision under pressure.
Executive operations with the discipline of intensive care — evidence first, governance always.