Samantha Marchand

I am an enthusiastic and hard-working graduate of the accelerated Dalhousie nursing program with an interest in learning new skills and developing professionally as an RN. I have experience working as a registered nurse in long-term care and in an acute psy- chiatric unit.

11/2020- present

Registered Nurse – 5 East/3 West

Long-term Care

Responsibilities

-Assume responsibility for Veterans needing complex care

-Post operative management & physical assessments

• IV initiation and management, venipuncture and interpreting bloodwork results
• Insert Foley and I/O catheters and assessing for complications
• Insert subcutaneous butterfly and assessing for complications
• Palliative/ End of life care
• Charge duties: Assigning workload and delegation of tasks as required to staff
• Working collaboratively with other members of the health care team to ensure all concerns are appropriately and effective addressed for each patient.
• Appling simple and complex dressings and treatments according to physician’s or- ders and policy

Registered Nurse – 7th Lane Abbey J. Lane

Acute Psychiatric Care

Responsibilities

-Assess and develop care plans for the patients

-Assess for symptoms of illness in mental health by using various tools such as nursing assessments, the suicide rating scale, the aggression assessment

-De-escalation of agitation and aggression and intervention of acute crisis

-Coordinate care and communicate effectively with colleagues and team members to deliver safe effective care

-Monitors the units and ensures all safety measures and safe work practices are fol- lowed

-Provide education to patient and family members regarding psychiatric conditions and medications.

Registered Nurse - Arborstone Enhanced Care

Young adult/ Geriatric Long Term Care Facility

Responsibilities

-Assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, documenting and directing client’s needs through consultation with medical professionals, care conferences and internal staff

-Assisting with the development, implementation and evaluation of client care plans -Appling simple and complex dressings and treatments according to physician’s orders and policy

-Assisting with supervision and evaluation of job performance and behavior of other health care staff

-Maintaining the standards of accurate and complete documentation

-Providing leadership to health services staff and overseeing provision of quality health services respecting the client’s right to individualized planning of health ser- vices

-Working with the existing management and health services teams to promote commu- nication and compliance to policies, procedures and applicable legislation

-Provide palliative care to residents and provide education and emotional support to family members

-Perform venipuncture and interpret bloodwork results

-Report concerns to community manager as appropriate and address concerns with reg- istered and non-registered staff on unit

2019 Advanced Standing Nursing Program - BSN Dalhousie University - Halifax

Certificate: Dementia: Understanding the Journey Alzheimer Society of NS - Halifax

2020 Brain Injury 101 Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia

2021 Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Crisis Prevention Institute

St. John’s Ambulance BLS/CPR