Donna Quest

Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration with no restrictions. Compassionate, motivated and highly skilled Registered Adult Nurse with over Five years post registration experience across Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery. Experienced in providing high-quality care to Adults and Children presenting with acute illness, Injury and trauma, undertaking holistic assessments and delivering compassionate, trauma informed care.

I have extensive experience in identifying and managing safeguarding concerns, working collaboratively with Police, Social services, safeguarding Teams and Mental health services to protect vulnerable patients. I am confident in working autonomously in fast paced environments, making complex clinical decisions whilst Maintaining professionalism, confidentiality and patient dignity. As a practice supervisor and assessor, I am committed to develop future nurses by supporting learning, providing constructive feedback and promoting evidence-based practice.

I am now seeking to develop further within my profession in additional fields/areas.

Staff Nurse Band 5 - Emergency Department (2022-10 – Present)

• Assess and treat patients presenting with acute and critical illness, Injury and trauma
• Undertake comprehensive physical, psychological and safeguarding assessments
• Recognise adults and children at risk of abuse, neglect, domestic abuse and child exploitation
• Laise with multi agency professionals
• Obtain informed consent whilst respecting patients' choice and confidentiality
• Prioritise and delegate workload
• Delivering a high standard of care to patients
• Carrying out treatments requested by clinicians in a timely manner
• Maintaining patient safety
• Carrying out triage assessments and prioritising patient care with correct clinician relevant to patient condition
• Decision making on carrying out appropriate investigations within my scope of practice prior to patient seeing clinician ie blood work, cannulation, ECG, X-Ray imaging
• Triaging and referring Mental health patients and carrying out risk assessments with detailed documentation
• Monitoring vital signs with correct documentation and escalating any abnormalities to the appropriate team
• Keeping accurate and up to date patient records
• Maintaining patient dignity and respect
• Administering medication via various routes
• Taking handover from Paramedics via Resus phone and face to face for critically ill patients and communicating with appropriate team
• Student Mentor

Staff Nurse Band 5 - Neurosurgery Ward (2020-10 – 2022-10)

• Delivering a high standard of care to patients pre and post operative
• Administering medication via various routes- oral/Intravenous/Nasogastric/rectal
• Monitoring vital signs and post-operative assessments and escalating patient deterioration via correct pathway
• Planning and implementing care plans
• Carrying out risk assessments
• Patient record keeping
• Liaising with MDT and arranging safe patient discharge back to patient home or other healthcare setting
• Teamwork
• Delivering end of life care, maintaining patient dignity and wishes

GCSE in Mathematics (2016)

GCSE in English (2016)

Diploma in Access to Nursing (2016 – 2017)

Bachelor with Hons in Adult Nursing (2017 – 2020)