Jenny McDonald, RN, DipAppSc (NrsEd), QIT, GradDipHlthServMgt Bathurst, FCNA, is the Chief Executive Officer of Nambour Selangor and Caloundra Private Hospitals on the Sunshine Coast for Ramsay Health Care, Australia's largest private hospital group.  Her role incorporates the management and facilitation of an interdisciplinary team of professionals.

Prior to moving into management, Jenny gained experience clinically and then held various positions in Staff Development and Quality Improvement, always maintaining a clinical specialty.  Her focus on both the professional and personal development of staff, led her to co-found the first private consultancy organisation with a mission of providing management education and personal development to the Queensland nursing profession.

She was a Founding member of the Oncology Nurses Group, QCF, Royal Australian College of Nursing in 1978 and is now a life member.  She was appointed president of the College of Nursing in Queensland and Consultant Director of Nursing to a hospital in Indonesia working with Health Care of Australia, where she was involved in facilitating, operationally, the beginning of the company moving in to the Asian health care market.

Jenny established the Queensland Cancer Fund's Oncology Nurses Group in 1977, and set up the services and facilities for the Queensland Cancer Fund on the Gold Coast, including creating the framework within which the provision of education and support and volunteer services would be established.  She has addressed a number of international cancer and education conferences, and was awarded a Queensland Cancer Fund overseas scholarship, which included a three month study tour of American and Canadian Cancer Care services.

She has always strived to ensure that those working with her are encouraged to "think outside the square" with Nambour Selangor being the pioneer in maternity driven childbirth, offering the choice of water birth into obstetrics and midwifery practice.