Registered Nurse - Midoroni Community Health Care Centre - Limpopo Province, Makhado municipality, South Africa
(2018-02 - 2020-04)
Full-time position (40 hours per week) at a government institution with 15-25 beds. Worked in Maternity/Medical ward with 20 beds and a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:10. Managed approximately 450 patients per day across various specialties.
- Attended emergencies - 65/month (car accidents, assaults, asthmatic attacks)
- Maternity ward - Antenatal care 170 cases/month, delivery of pregnant women 43 cases/month, nursing post-delivery women with new-born babies 43 cases/month
- Consulting and dispensing chronic and minor illness 11,550/month, Immunization 100/month
- Suturing and cleaning wounds 40/month
- Blood tests - 250/month
- Wound care including wound cleaning, suturing, and dressing
- IV line insertion, Urinary catheter placement 200/month
- Health examination 200/month including vital signs, HIV testing, Cholesterol, TB screening, Height, weight, BMI, visual test, Blood glucose
- Master trainer of midwifery, TB, and HIV and CPR and CTG performance to students from different Universities and Colleges
- Managerial duties including staff delegation, training lists, annual leave approvals, staff off-duty approvals
- Addressed patient complaints or problems - 20 patients per day
TB Focal Nurse / Registered Nurse - Edenvale Hospital (Isibani Development Partners) - Gauteng province, Johannesburg, South Africa
(2020-05 - 2023-09)
Full-time position (40 hours per week) in a 500+ bed hospital with 55 beds in Medical ward and COVID-19 Unit. Nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:15. Specialization in TB management and COVID-19 care.
- Sputum collection 100/month
- Blood collection 55/month
- Vital signs 100/month
- Oxygen therapy 55/month
- Health examination 100/month including vital signs, HIV testing, Cholesterol, TB screening, Height, weight, BMI, visual test, Blood glucose
- Give patient medications 100/month and record in patient's file
- Give health education about TB and HIV treatment 700/month
- Wound care including wound cleaning, suturing, and dressing 40/month
- IV line insertion, Urinary catheter placement 100/month
- Perform ECG to patients 55/month
- Address patient complaints or problems 10-15 patients per day
Nurse Lead (Shift Leader) / Registered Nurse - Spartan Community Health Centre (Wits RHI) - Gauteng province, Johannesburg, South Africa
(2023-10 - 2025-01)
Full-time position (40 hours per week) at a community health centre with 15-20 beds. Chronic and Acute ward managing 100 patients per day with nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:25. Medical Surgical ward specialization. Responsibilities include HIV management, TB screening, and ART implementation.
- Examine and treat HIV infected patients in accordance with guidelines
- Treat opportunistic infections diagnosed
- Prescribe appropriate treatments
- Provide ART and prophylaxis per DoH guidelines
- Identify and manage patients with ART failure and opportunistic infections
- Support counsellors to manage adherence issues in patients on ART
- Facilitate services such as down- and up-referrals
- Assist with development and implementation of SOPs that improve operational efficiencies and patient management
- Provide comprehensive follow-up services for patients on treatment
- Register and follow up decanted patients in accordance with guidelines and SOPs
- Implement programme activities in HTS and non-clinical prevention such as testing for HIV in TB patients, FP and STI, condom distribution, male circumcision and pre- and post-treatment adherence
- Implement programme activities in PMTCT such as paediatric diagnosis, care and treatment, reproductive health including family planning, general adult HIV treatment and chronic care, HIV wellness programmes, Tuberculosis screening and care, Nurse-initiated and managed ART
- Identify gaps in clinical guideline implementation at facility level and develop plans to address these
- Identify training needs of DoH/facility staff
- Address training needs in collaboration with DOH and Wits RHI counterparts
- Support implementation of clinical guidelines at facility level through on-site mentoring support and contribute to achievement of priority programmes targets
- Support provision of classroom/off site training and on the job training to ensure skills transfer and competency
- Support implementation of 95-95-95 strategies to ensure clinicians are competent to initiate ART, manage and monitor viral suppression and retention in care for patients on ART/TB, including adherence support strategies and identification and management or referral of patients for advanced clinical care and failing treatment
- Attending emergencies - 65/month (car accidents, assaults, asthmatic attacks)
- Maternity ward - Antenatal care 170 cases/month, delivery of pregnant women 43 cases/month, nursing post-delivery women with new-born babies 43 cases/month
- Consulting and dispensing chronic and minor illness 11,550/month, Immunization 100/month
- Suturing and cleaning wounds 40/month
- Blood tests - 250/month
- Wound care including wound cleaning, suturing, and dressing
- IV line insertion, Urinary catheter placement 200/month
- Health examination 200/month including vital signs, HIV testing, Cholesterol, TB screening, Height, weight, BMI, visual test, Blood glucose
- Master trainer of midwifery, TB and HIV and CPR and CTG performance to students from different Universities and Colleges
- Managerial duties including staff delegation, training lists, annual leave approvals, staff off-duty approvals
Midwife / Registered Nurse Labour and Delivery - ARWP Private Hospital - Gauteng province, Johannesburg, South Africa
(2023-01 - 2025-01)
Part-time position working night duty (96 hours per month) at a 400-450 bed private hospital. Labour and delivery specialization with 1:3 nurse-to-patient ratio and 3 patients per day capacity. Managing normal and complicated pregnancies with 3-4 deliveries per night.
- Monitor foetal heart rate using doppler and CTG machine
- Progress pregnant women from first stage of labour to until fourth stage of labour
- Deliveries of normal and complicated pregnancies
- Management of PPH, Cord pro-lapse, eclampsia, pre-eclampsia, and other complicated conditions
- Receiving baby in theatre
- Examination of the baby immediately after delivery for skin colour, reflexes, lower limbs, breathing patterns and body weight
- Injecting the Konakion (Vit K) and apply chloramex on the eyes after delivery
- Inserting of IV lines
- Inserting of catheter
- Giving of medication, both oral, IV, and IMI
- Collection of bloods
- Blood transfusion
- Total deliveries per night: 3 to 4
Staff Nurse 1 (Registered Nurse) - Alhada Armed Forces Hospital - Taif, Saudi Arabia
(2025-09 - 2025-01)
Full-time position working 12-hour shifts, 4 days per week (total 48 hours per week) at a 500-800 bed hospital. Post Partum ward with 40 beds and nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:6. Focus on nursing administration, direct patient care, and strategic plan implementation.
- Complete all aspects of the nursing process including assessment, diagnosis, plan, implementation and evaluation of nursing care with appropriate documentation across the continuum of care
- Deliver evidence based best practice, exemplary nursing according to national and international standards
- Embrace continuing professional development
- Empower and foster teamwork to achieve nursing practice and operational excellence in delivery of high quality, safe and efficient patient care, supporting patient/family-centered care
- Provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and family
- Administer prescribed medications and treatments, utilizing safe medication administration principles in adherence to MOHDS and organizational policies and procedures
- Participate in and support patient experience initiatives across the continuum of care while working inter-professional within the organization
- Provide patient/family education in response to identified learning/health needs
- Utilize knowledge of cultural diversity and empathy in provision of patient and family centered care and maintain patient confidentiality
- Provide orientation and preceptorship of new staff, as per authority and delegation, mentor existing staff
