Mary Smith

Liaise with relevant colleagues in the receiving and handing over of care Determine the predicted requirements for patient care Supports staff in their roles to engender an ethos of patient focused care

Anaesthetics Nurse - Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth, UK

(2023-01)

• Liaise with relevant colleagues in the receiving and handing over of care
• Determine the predicted requirements for patient care
• Supports staff in their roles to engender an ethos of patient focused care
• Enable patients' decisions to be upheld
• Deliver care in a compassionate way that recognizes the humanness of the individual
• Ensure patients are appropriately supported during the potentially worrying and confusing events they experience
• Demonstrate good practice skills that reflect current recommended practice
• Provide a sound rationale for their actions
• Maintain patient safety as part of the wider theatre team
• Ensure risks are minimized where possible to the patient and others
• Communicate well enabling a shared understanding of current and anticipated activity

Staff Nurse – Day Surgery - Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth, UK

(2023-01 - 2023-12)

• Worked closely with pre-assessment and the theatre team to ensure the patients receive excellent patient care
• Admitted day surgery and inpatients completing a comprehensive assessment
• Provided safe, quality care to post-operative patients undergoing various surgical procedures
• Safely discharged patients ensured they meet all day surgery criteria, ensuring patients have a clear understanding
• Managed post-operative pain and nausea
• Demonstrated and applied clinical decision-making skills to all clinical specialties; Liaised with specialist teams to create and organise post-operative care and provide continuing care to patient's post-surgery
• Performed catheterization when necessary and to raised concerns regarding fluid input and output
• Performed bladder scans, ECG's, vital observations
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills to ensure that all information is disseminated accurately to patients, relatives, members of the multi-disciplinary team and other departments
• Maintained patient dignity and respect, and equality and diversity as per trust policies
• Acted as a mentor to junior staff creating a positive learning culture, supporting skill acquisition and competency development
• Participated in local audits
• Acted as the daily coordinator in the absence of the Ward Manager when required

Staff Nurse – Acute Adult Care - Royal Bolton Hospital - Bolton, UK

(2021-01 - 2023-12)

• Performed patient assessments in accordance with standards and as appropriate to patient condition
• Educated patients and their families on disease processes, medical procedures, and other aspects of therapeutic regimens, including medication and pain management techniques
• Provided direct nursing care to all age groups and served a broad range of general nursing care in areas of vital signs, catheters, feeding, drawing blood for laboratory specimens, dressing, and intravenous access
• Participated in education and instructions preceding patient's discharge
• Administered prescribed medications, started intravenous fluids, and documented patients' charts by recording food and fluid intake and output
• Managed patients' pain using pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions
• Educated patients regarding their medications, procedure, and treatments
• Provided basic patient care and treatments, such as dressed wounds, treated bedsores, gave enemas, douches, and performed catheterizations

Scrub Nurse - Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral, and Research Hospital - Nairobi, Kenya

(2020-01 - 2021-12)

• Ensured safe and conducive environment to the patients and the staff by observing infection prevention goals
• Assisted in surgical procedures by setting up operation room, working with surgeons and preparing patients for the move to recovery areas
• Collaborated and embraced teamwork with other theatre staffs to enable workflow efficiently and effectively for patients benefit
• Supported nursing students who are on their clinical rotation to ensure they are learning, and their objectives met
• Accounted for all the tools used during surgical procedures such as needles, sponges, and other instruments before and after procedures
• Cases Managed: Appendicitis; Burns; Breast Biopsy; Cholecystectomy; Coronary artery bypass; Debridement of wounds; Deep vein thrombosis; Dilatation & curettage; Emergency caesarean section; Emergency laparotomy; Fractures; Free skin graft; Gunshot, puncture & stab wounds; Haemorrhoidectomy; Hysteroscopy; Inguinal hernia repair; Lower back pain surgery; Mastectomy; Orthopaedic surgeries; Tonsilitis

Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical Ward - AIC Kijabe Hospital - Kijabe, Kenya

(2018-01 - 2020-12)

• Performed patient assessments in accordance with standards and as appropriate to patient condition, age, and services to be provided
• Educated patients and their families on disease processes, medical-surgical procedures, and other aspects of therapeutic regimens, including medication and pain management techniques
• Provided direct nursing care to all age groups and served a broad range of general nursing care in areas of vital signs, catheters, feeding, drawing blood for lab specimens, dressing, and intravenous access
• Provided preoperative and postoperative education to patients and their families
• Managed patients' pain using pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions
• Actively monitored the patients' situation before, during and after surgical operations and maintain aseptic techniques
• Prepared patients for surgical procedures
• Administered prescribed medications, started intravenous fluids, and documented patients' charts by recording food and fluid intake and output
• Provided basic patient care and treatments, such as dressed wounds, treated bedsores, gave enemas, douches, and performed catheterizations
• Educated patients regarding their medications, procedure, and treatments
• Cases Managed: Anaemia; Constipation; COPD; Dehydration; Gastritis; Goitre; Hypertension; Kidney failure; Lower back pain; Malaria; Nephrotic syndrome; Peptic Ulcer Disease; Pneumonia; Sinusitis; Typhoid

Level 6 - Deteriorating Patient - University of Southampton (2024-01 - 2025-12)

FHEQ Level 6 (Honours) - Patient Care in Anaesthetics - Bournemouth University (2023-01 - 2024-12)

Diploma - Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing - Kijabe College of Health Sciences (2015-01 - 2018-12)

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Chogoria Girls High School (2010-01 - 2013-12)

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - St. Peter's Elite School Gilgil (2002-01 - 2009-12)