Adreen Mcken

An empathetic, caring, compassionate and non-judgmental worker, with over 15 years' experience as a healthcare worker/ healthcare assistant - working in hospitals, residential and nursing homes, schools, nursery and in clients' own homes. Work experience includes voluntary, paid and work placements, with service users with a variety of health needs including physical, learning, and mental disabilities as well as mental disorder and memory loss such as dementia. In July 2016, completed a BA (Hons) Top up Degree in Public Health and Social Care.

I have also completed a three years Adult Nursing Degree Course, commenced in March 2017 and has now been registered as a general adult nurse. During this degree course, I have done work placement in hospitals but mainly in GP Practices as I was on a community pathway, my final management placement was also conducted in a GP Practice doing new patients health checks and assisting with diabetic reviews. I am currently employed at the Royal Hospital Chelsea as a Registered Nurse working with individuals diagnosed with dementia.

Registered Staff Nurse - Royal Hospital Chelsea

(2024-01)

• Caring for and supporting individuals living with dementia
• Doing care plans
• Duty nurse or nurse in charge, responsible for dealing with or making decisions based on medical emergencies
• Administering medications
• Providing support for the individuals and their families

Ambulatory Care and Out-patient Nurse - West Valley Hospital

(2021-02 - 2024-01)

Admitting and discharging patients including giving both pre and post procedure information as well as ensuring patients are fully informed of all relevant information upon discharge including follow up calls.

• Preparing patients for surgery
• Assessing, observing, and caring for patients in recovery from theatre
• Assessing patients physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and intellectual well-being to ascertain relevant intervention to aid surgery and recovery
• Monitoring and recording patient's vital signs
• Carrying out patient's glucose test
• Carrying out patient's urine dip test
• Carrying out patient's COVID lateral flow test
• Carrying out company Audits
• Wound care including dressings and removing sutures and staples

Band 5 Adult Nurse - Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust

(2020-06 - 2021-02)

Newly qualified nurse, completed supernumerary

• Assessing patients physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and intellectual well-being to ascertain relevant intervention or referral for a holistic person-centered care
• Caring for patients using the patient centeredness approach, where they were placed at the heart of everything I do working as part of a team
• Toileting patients
• Administering medication – oral medications and subcutaneous and intramuscular injections
• Monitoring and recording patient's vital signs including those patients who were attached to cardiac monitors
• Carrying out cannulation and phlebotomy
• Doing wound care
• Performing ECGs
• Admitting and discharging patients
• Carrying out personal care duties
• Assist patients in eating and drinking

Healthcare Assistant - St. Georges NHS Hospital -Tooting

(2016-12 - 2017-04)

• Performing ECGs on patients
• Monitoring patients' conditions by doing vital signs observations
• Serving meals and helping patients to eat and drink
• Carrying out urine dipstick tests
• Bed making
• Communicating with patients and making them feel comfortable
• Assisting patients to bath or shower
• Toileting patients
• Conducting bladder scan on patients

Childcare Assistant - Gem's Childcare - Croydon

(2011-09 - 2013-09)

• Writing observational report for children
• Writing weekly and monthly activity plan
• Recording incidents and accidents reports
• Coordinating activities for the children

Support Worker - Allied Healthcare - Croydon

(2008-07 - 2011-08)

• Assisting with personal care
• Promoting independence
• Recording and reporting information
• Administering medication

Personal Assistant - Choices Care Agency - Brixton

(2005-12 - 2008-07)

• Assisting with personal care
• Meal preparation
• Light house chores
• Accompany client to appointments
• Recording clients' daily activities

Care Assistant - Allied Healthcare - London Bridge

(2004-05 - 2005-12)

• Assisting with personal care
• Bed making
• Shopping for service users who are immobile in their homes
• Prompting and assisting with medication

Healthcare Assistant - Croydon University Hospital

(2016-02 - 2016-03)

Doing hourly rounds to ascertain patients' health improvement or deterioration as well as ensuring maintenance of communication

• Supporting health care staffs to file patients' medical notes

Family Support Worker - Home-Start – Croydon

(2014-11 - 2015-04)

Supporting two parents with post-natal depression with children under 5 years in their own homes

• Offering strategies and support to the families in dealing with children's behaviours
• Offering emotional and empathetic support to the mothers as well as encouragement to integrate with local parents to help build up a network of friends
• Accompany mothers and their children to local groups, clinics and libraries

Nursery Officer/ Out of school Play worker - Gingerbread Corner – Croydon

(2014-02 - 2014-03)

• Supervise children at play
• Escort children from school
• Promoting children's independence through play

Care Worker - British Red Cross - Croydon University Hospital

(2009-10 - 2012-07)

• Support clients with shopping and light house chores
• Visiting patients on hospital wards and liaising with Supervisor

Learning Support Assistant - Elmwood Infant School - Croydon

(2009-09 - 2010-07)

• Undertake individual or group reading with children

BSC (Hons) - Adult Nursing - University of Greenwich (2020-06)

BA (Hons) - Top Up degree in Public Health & Social Care - Sussex University-University Centre Croydon (2016-07)

FDG - Public Health and Social care - University Centre Croydon (2015-07)

Access to HE Education Diploma - Humanities and Social Science - Croydon College (2011-07)

City and Guilds NVQ level 3 - Health & Social Care - Celeste Care NVQ Training & Assessment Centre (2007-06)

City and Guilds NVQ level 2 - Health & social Care - Celeste Care NVQ Training & Assessment Centre (2006-02)