Tafadzwa Mapuranga

A team player with expertise in clinical mentoring, counseling, report writing, community mobilization and sensitization, school health promotion, workplace wellness and education, networking, youth friendly service provision, disease surveillance, research and community needs assessment skills, clinic management, community health nursing, home based care, immunizations, screening for mental health conditions, triaging, psychiatric emergency management, competencies for suicide management, and facilitation of a therapeutic environment for clients. Knowledgeable in social determinants of health with sound understanding of referral protocol, interpersonal skills, therapeutic communication, and therapeutic use of self.

Registered Nurse - Adult male ward and female wards at Gokwe South Hospital (2015-06 – 2017-06)

Clinical experience in a 200 bedded District hospital providing services including maternal child health, adult care, opportunistic infections clinic, mental health care department, ophthalmic department, radiography, rehabilitation, maternity unit, theatre, pediatric ward, adult male and female wards. Catchment area included 35 clinics. Handled medical conditions including epistaxis, acute kidney injury, prostate enlargement, snake bite, hypertension, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, fractures, surgical wounds, stab wounds, foreign bodies, keloids, burns, and mental health conditions including relapsed psychosis, status epilepticus, paraphilias, dementia, schizophrenia, substance abuse, delirium, acute alcohol intoxication, and parasuicide.

Registered Nurse - Female Ward Medical/Surgical Ward at Gokwe South Hospital (2017-07 – 2017-12)

Clinical experience managing medical conditions including miscarriages, ectopic pregnancy, asthmatic attacks, hypertension, encephalitis, diabetes mellitus, pelvic abscess, hyperemesis gravidarum, burns, fractures, fibroids, intestinal obstruction, diabetic foot, puerperal psychosis, depression, anxiety depressive disorders, organic psychosis, schizophrenia, dementia, delirium, and pica.

• Admissions and discharges per doctor's orders/Mental Health Act
• Environment care
• Medicine administration
• Report writing
• Chaperone at doctors' round
• Vital observations and behavioral observations
• Chaperone at Matron's round
• Assisting doctor's procedures
• Escorting clients
• Infection control
• Attending to visitors
• Delegation
• Orientation of new staff
• DDA compliance and medication storage
• Mentoring of students

Trainee Psychiatric Nurse at Ingutsheni Central Hospital (2018-01 – 2019-06)

Specialized psychiatric training at the country's largest mental hospital and referral centre, one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in southern Africa. Rotated through multiple wards and departments including elderly/geriatric care, male acute ward, male sub-acute ward, forensic ward, children's and disability ward, open ward, female acute ward, female sub-acute ward, occupational therapy departments, outpatients, staff clinic, EEG services, and psychology department.

• Psychiatric patient OPD - Screening and clinical diagnosis of mental illness, psychotherapies, triaging mental patients, management of seizure disorders, prescription and combinations of psychotropic drugs, adverse effects monitoring, therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, patient follow up, psychiatric emergencies including aggression and suicide management competencies, psychometric examinations, de-escalation techniques
• Psychogeriatric ward - nurse-patient relationship, environment care, prevention of falls, observations including behavioral, environmental, vital and suicidal observations, drug administration, holistic patient care, elderly psychotherapy interventions
• Male forensic ward - admission and discharge protocol of forensic patients using mental health act of 1996, nurse patient relationship, drug administration, psychotherapy intervention techniques, ward administration, critical thinking skills, psychiatric emergencies in forensic ward including suicide competencies, therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, understanding the complexity of patients, psychometric examinations, facilitation of referral of mental offenders to forensic institution for rehabilitation

Psychiatric mental health nurse - Outpatients Department at Gokwe District Hospital (2019-07 – 2021-09)

Provided customer care, triaged patients, treated minor illnesses according to Essential Drug List of Zimbabwe (EDLIZ), screened for mental illnesses, conducted health talks, formulated nursing diagnosis of mental illness with referral to doctor for prescriptions and medical assessments, managed mental health clinic outpatient follow ups, conducted psychometric evaluations, managed admissions and discharges of psychiatric patients, administered medication for treatment of organic and non-organic psychosis, provided mental patient advocacy, applied for temporary admission without certification according to Mental Health Act 1996, escorted patients, counseled patients and staff members, managed psychiatric emergencies, conducted history taking, physical examination and investigations, carried out doctor's orders, implemented psychotherapy intervention techniques, and performed vital observations.

Community Mental Health Nurse Attachee at Gokwe District Hospital (2019-07 – 2021-09)

Provided community-based mental health services including health promotions, treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases in mental patients, reviewing patients taking antipsychotics and referring them to the doctor for medication adjustments in case of side effects or extrapyramidal side effects, supporting clients and families living with a mentally ill client, updating mental health register, managing co-morbidities, preparing quarterly reports and annual plans for mental health, and counseling of staff.

Internationally Qualified Nurse pre NMC registration / Health Care Assistant at Priory Group Burton Park Hospital (2021-11 – 2022-07)

Worked as Health Care Assistant in a mental health and recovery facility.

Health Care Assistant at Priory Group, Burton Park Hospital (2022-07 – 2025-03)

Provided direct patient care and support in a mental health facility.

Recovery Support Worker at Priory Hospital Arnold (2025-03 – Present)

Providing recovery support services to patients.

NHS Bank Healthcare Assistant (Physical Health) at Leicestershire Partnership Trust (2024-03 – Present)

Providing healthcare assistance focused on physical health services.

Health Care Assistant - Combined Duties at Priory Group, Burton Park Hospital / Priory Hospital Arnold / Leicestershire Partnership Trust (2021-11 – Present)

Multiple concurrent and sequential positions providing direct patient care in mental health and physical health settings.

• Receiving a handover from outgoing nursing/care team
• Monitoring patient behaviour and coping documenting on observation and engagement record
• Personal care
• Verbal de-escalation, PMVA or RRI
• Diet monitoring, BMs taking
• Bed making - escorting patients to smoke breaks
• Vital observation monitoring using BP machine, pulse oximeter, thermometer
• Updating patient care provided on computer - Brigid
• Assisted feeds giving normal and/or modified diets and fluids
• Food and fluid charts
• Weighing patients
• Behavioral observations and documentation - behavior chart
• Hoisting, moving and handling
• Updating body map records
• Oral care - wheeling patients on wheelchair
• Giving a handover
• Aggression chart

Diploma in General Nursing – Harare Hospital School of Nursing (2010-05 – 2013-05)

Diploma in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing – Ingutsheni Central Hospital, Department of Mental Health Education (2018-01 – 2019-06)