Advanced Critical Care
Mechanical ventilation, CRRT, IABP, PiCCO and haemodynamics for adult and paediatric ICU patients.
Melbourne · Critical Care · Higher Education · Executive Operations
Clinical rigour, brought to executive operations.
Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the CAQA Groups: an AHPRA endorsed Nurse Practitioner, Senior Lecturer in Nursing at La Trobe University and clinician educator whose leadership rests on twenty years of nursing, more than fifteen of them in intensive care, and seventeen years building the health and community services resource library that RTOs, TAFEs and universities use across Australia.
Chief Operating & Financial Officer · CAQA Groups
Nurse Practitioner (AHPRA Endorsed)
ICU Liaison Nurse Consultant · Northern Health
Senior Lecturer in Nursing · La Trobe University
Nursing Lecturer · RMIT University
Dual Master's · University of Melbourne
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0Verified advanced practice hours
0Years in nursing since 2006
0Years with the CAQA Groups
0Procedures verified competent
NPAHPRA endorsed
Professional Summary
Equal parts clinician, educator and executive.
Raj Kiran Kaur is an AHPRA endorsed Nurse Practitioner and clinician educator whose professional identity sits equally in critical care practice, higher education and the leadership of a national education group. Since 2011 she has delivered specialist intensive care nursing at The Northern Hospital, Northern Health, logging more than 6,800 verified hours of advanced practice, while teaching nursing at RMIT University since 2018 and, from 2026, at La Trobe University's School of Nursing and Midwifery.
As Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the CAQA Groups since 2009 she carries that same evidence first discipline into operations, finance, quality systems and risk. Her resource development record covers thousands of units of competency in nursing, health and community services, and bachelor's and master's level materials, spanning every AQF level below doctorate.
Core Expertise
From the bedside to the boardroom.
The disciplines behind a career spanning intensive care, university teaching, national resource development and group leadership.
Nurse Practitioner Practice
AHPRA endorsed advanced practice: assessment, diagnosis, prescribing and referral, with 6,800+ verified hours.
Clinical Education
Diploma, bachelor and master's level nursing teaching at RMIT and La Trobe, grounded in current practice.
Curriculum & OSCE Design
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations designed, conducted and quality assured across cohorts.
Resource Development
Thousands of units of competency and higher education materials authored for CAQA Resources since 2009.
Assessment Validation
Validation, moderation and audit of health and community services training products against the Standards for RTOs.
Clinical Governance
Standard 8 Clinical Improvement Committee member; MET and Code Blue databases and reporting.
Quality & Risk Systems
ISO 9001, 31000 and 22301 lead auditor trained; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt; group quality management systems.
“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, two of its universities and a national education group.
2009
Group Executive
Chief Operating and Financial Officer of Career Calling International and the CAQA Groups since August 2009: operational governance, financial planning, quality systems and risk for a national education group.
2025
Dual Master's Completed
Master of Advanced Nursing Practice in the Nurse Practitioner stream (2025) and the Critical Care Nursing stream (2023), both from the University of Melbourne, followed by AHPRA Nurse Practitioner endorsement.
2026
La Trobe University
Senior Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, teaching into the Master of Nursing Practice while continuing to lecture at RMIT.
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.
AQF 1 to 9
National Resource Library
Thousands of units of competency across nursing, health and community services, plus bachelor's and master's materials, adopted by RTOs, TAFEs and universities.
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Verified Competence
Formally verified as competent across 17 specialist clinical procedures, from advanced mechanical ventilation to Swan Ganz catheter management.
Portraits
Raj, in frame.
A selection from the 2026 portrait series. The full set is on the About page.
Let's collaborate
Precision under pressure.
Executive operations with the discipline of intensive care: evidence first, governance always.