Recovery Unit Nurse - Bank - Spire Healthcare - Bushey Heath, England, United Kingdom
(2025-08)
- Managed post-operative patients in recovery ensuring airway, breathing, and circulation stability.
- Assisted in coordinating patient flow between theatre and wards.
- Worked collaboratively with anaesthetists, surgeons, and theatre staff.
- Maintained accurate documentation and adhered to recovery protocols and safety standards.
- Supports during high patient turnover periods.
Preoperative Assessment Nurse - Bank - Spire Healthcare - Bushey Heath, England, United Kingdom
(2025-02 - 2025-08)
- Conduct comprehensive pre-operative assessments for patients scheduled for elective and complex surgical procedures.
- Liaise closely with consultants, anaesthetists, pharmacists, theatres and ward teams to ensure patients are optimized for surgery.
- Identify and escalate concerns that may affect surgical safety, preventing last-minute cancellations.
- Provide detailed patient education regarding surgical preparation, fasting guidelines, and pot-operative expectations.
- Contribute to smooth patient flow by ensuring readiness for admission and surgery.
Surgery Ward Nurse - Spire Healthcare - Bushey Heath, England, United Kingdom
(2021-11)
- Taking Nurse-in-charge roles, overseeing the ward, delegating staff assignments, dealing with discharged patient concerns over the phone, and does bed management.
- Coordinated admissions, discharges, and transfers ensuring smooth patient flow.
- Led the shift by supervising HCAs and junior nurses.
- Handled patient escalations, deteriorations, and emergency situations effectively.
- Liaised with consultants, anaesthetists, theatre staff, pharmacy, and physiotherapists.
- Supported staff development and provided mentorship to new nurses.
- As a urology link, coordinated closely with urology consultants to ensure continuity of care, managed patients with continuous bladder irrigation, monitoring output, colour, and clot retention risks.
- Competently performed male and female catheterization, bladder scanning, catheter care, and trial without catheter; taught self-catheterization to patients.
- Supported safe discharge planning for urology patients needing catheters at home, liaising with Coloplast and with their GP.
Dementia and High Dependency Unit Nurse - Barchester Healthcare - Harrow, England, United Kingdom
(2020-10 - 2021-11)
- Managed complex dementia patients with behavioural and high dependency needs.
- Led care staff during shifts ensuring person-centered care delivery.
- Administered medications and monitored patients with multiple comorbidities.
- Implemented safeguarding measures and risk management strategies.
- Coordinated with families, GPs, and multidisciplinary teams
