Registered Nurse/Midwife - Meridian Hospitals Ltd. - Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
(2015-01)
Areas of Exposure: Accident and Emergency, Antenatal, Post-natal, Surgical and Medical Wards. Bed Capacity: 88
- Prompt in patient condition assessment on patient arrival at the ER during initial phases of acute illness or trauma.
- Provide nursing care, monitor ER patients including alerting physicians or charge nurses in patient status, communicating with patients and their family members in a variety of traumatic situations.
- Perform medical procedures such as venepuncture, fasting and random blood sugar, taking vital signs, urinalysis and administering medications.
- Proper documentation and collaboration with ER professionals to ensure effective patient care.
- Performing wound dressing, educating patients on steps to take to manage pain, avoid post-surgical infection and provide substantial support and encouragement.
- Help patients improve mobility and functionality by assisting in redesigning their personal spaces and recommending gadgets and furniture that support the bone structure and healing.
- Gauging patient's psychiatric states.
- Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
- Administering psychotropic and similar medication.
- Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
- Restraining, consoling and sometimes medicating highly unsettled patients.
- Preparing patients for surgery.
- Assisting the Anaesthetist and Surgeons when needed.
- Sterilizing and marking incision sites.
- Intervening when there are complications.
- Administering medication.
- Preparing the operating room.
Registered Nurse/Midwife - Mbano Joint Hospital - Umuduru, Isiala Mbano, Imo State
(2011-01 - 2015-12)
Areas of Exposure: Accident and Emergency, Orthopedic, Recovery Room, Surgical and Medical Wards. Bed Capacity: 120
- Proper medical documentation and administration of prescribed medications.
- Carrying out detailed nursing assessments of patients.
- Providing health education.
- Assisted with medical examinations, procedures and other patient care activities.
- Monitoring patients' clinical condition.
- Measuring vital signs.
- Recovers and determine when patient is stable enough to be transferred to a hospital room.
- Prepare a pain management schedule for patients based on doctors' prescriptions and prevent patients suffering from unnecessary pains.
- Performing wound dressing, educating patients on steps to take to manage pain, avoid post-surgical infection and provide substantial support and encouragement.
- Sterilizing and marking incision sites.
- Intervening when there are complications.
- Administering medication.
- Preparing the operating room.
Registered Adult Nurse - Chapel Group Medical Clinic - Works Layout, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
(2009-01 - 2011-12)
Areas of Exposure: Antenatal, Post-natal, ENT, Orthopedic, Recovery Room, Surgical and Medical Wards. Bed Capacity: 70
- Assisted with medical examinations, procedures and other patient care activities.
- Monitoring patients' clinical condition.
- Perform medical procedures such as venepuncture, fasting and random blood sugar, taking vital signs, urinalysis and administering medications.
- Proper documentation and collaboration with ER professionals to ensure effective patient care.
- Performing wound dressing, educating patients on steps to take to manage pain, avoid post-surgical infection and provide substantial support and encouragement.
- Provide nursing care, monitor ER patients including alerting physicians or charge nurses in patient status, communicating with patients and their family members in a variety of traumatic situations.
- Administering medications.
- Intervening when there are complications.
