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
