Staff Nurse
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Currently working as a Band 5 Staff Nurse in Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital. I have worked with NHS since 1999. I started as an Auxiliary Nurse and went on to do my full nurse training in 2005, qualifying in 2008 to a Staff Nurse.
Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital - Aviemore October 2021 to Present.
We moved from Ian Charles Community Hospital following its closure to here at Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital. Now we manage a slightly bigger bedded hospital consisting of 20 beds and also are nursing some younger patients and providing some day case care for blood transfusions and intravenous therapies. I continue to work within job description outlined under Ian Charles Community Hospital. We work using a lot of electronic/ technology for record keeping, care planning etc as well as usual written documentation.
Ian Charles Hospital - Grantown on Spey April 2019 to October 2021.
Staff Nurse to mainly elderly clientele. Nursing from admission to discharge facilitating rehabilitation, medicine administration, palliative, medical interventions etc. Communicating and liaising with patients, their families, caregivers and a diverse range of multi disciplines . Delegating duties and running shifts , administering intravenous medicines, phlebotomy, wound care to name but a few.
NHS Highland - Inverness May 2016 to April 2019.
Staff Nurse on a 30 bedded very busy Acute Medicine for the elderly ward at Raigmore Hospital, providing nursing care to a wide variety of patients requiring medical, rehabilitate and palliative patient centred holistic care and treatment.
Assisting patients with activities of daily living, delivering medical interventions, drugs orally and intrevienous , phlebotomy, recording vital sign observations, catheterisation, wound care, note taking and documentation written and electronically liaising with multi disciplines , patients and their families alike. As well as delegation, prioritisation, desculating violent and aggressive patients, falls prevention, maintaining strict confidentialites, taking charge on occasion when required and working in strict concordance within NMC guidelines and my registration.
NHS Bank - Inverness
April 2015 to September 2016.
I worked where the NHS in Highland had staff shortages doing relief bank work . Usually on wards within Raigmore mainly 2c Acute medicine for the elderly doing a night shift a week. Carried out a wide range of duties from managing a 30 bedded unit with cohorted rooms for falls , rehabilitation,violence and aggression, to terminal end of life care . Using a wide range of skills such as wound care, skin rounding, phlebotomy, IV medicines, blood transfusion, drug administration, electronic and written documentation to name but a few. Delegation, team working, communications with patients, multidisciplinary team, carers and families alike.
NHS Highland - Kingussie March 2013 to February 2015.
Relief bank staff nurse providing geriatric nursing care mainly in a community style hospital setting. Delivering a broad range of medical and nursing interventions and skills both emotional and physical to patients, their families and carers alike as part of a team. Maintaining strict confidentiality, whilst upholding patient centred holistic care with dignity and respect, working within NMC guidelines and code of conduct.
Nursing Degree with Bsc dip and merit im Bachelors of science in Nursing. University of Stirling Highland Campus - Inverness.
September 2005 to September 2006 HNC in Health care
Mid mills College - Inverness.
