Chioma Ulogo

Operating Room Nurse supporting safe surgical care through WHO checklist compliance, peri-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative protocols, and patient education before and after procedures. Maintains sterile fields, assists surgical teams, monitors vital signs, and responds quickly to changes in patient condition. Strengthens care coordination by communicating clearly with patients and interdisciplinary teams in fast-paced surgical settings.

Perioperative Nurse/Theatre Nurse - Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba - Lagos State

(2024-11)

• Prepared patients for surgical procedures
• Assisted surgeons during operations as a scrub nurse.
• Maintained a sterile environment and followed infection-control protocols.
• Performed instrument and swab counts for patient safety.
• Monitored and cared for patients in the recovery room after surgery
• Ensuring standard practice of WHO checklist
• Maintaining the Peri-Operative, intra-Operative and Post-Operative protocols
• Patient education on their procedure
• Administered preoperative and postoperative care to patients in compliance with hospital protocols.
• Collaborated with surgical teams to ensure efficient operation room workflows and patient safety.
• Monitored vital signs and patient conditions during surgeries, promptly reporting any changes to the surgical team.
• Assisted in the preparation of surgical instruments and equipment, ensuring cleanliness and functionality.
• Assisting surgical teams during procedures by preparing and maintaining sterile surgical fields, passing instruments, and providing surgical supplies as needed.
• Monitor patients' vital signs and assist with anesthesia administration and airway management.
• Anticipate and respond to changes in patients' conditions, ensuring prompt intervention to maintain stability.
• Provide postoperative care and monitoring in recovery areas, assessing patients' condition and managing pain and discomfort.

Nursing Officer - Hartwell Hospital, Victoria Island - Victoria Island, Lagos State

(2024-01 - 2024-11)

• Key responsibilities
• Assisting surgical teams during procedures by preparing and maintaining sterile surgical fields, passing instruments, and providing surgical supplies as needed.
• Monitor patients' vital signs and assist with anesthesia administration and airway management.
• Anticipate and respond to changes in patients' conditions, ensuring prompt intervention to maintain stability.
• Provide postoperative care and monitoring in recovery areas, assessing patients' condition and managing pain and discomfort.
• Educate patients and their families about postoperative instructions, including wound care, medication management, and signs of complications.
• Team on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious spinal cord injury, gunshot wounds, fractures, and burns treatment.
• Perform ECG test on patient and clients and also assisting in ECHO, Stress test and Holter monitoring.
• Educate patients and families on diagnosis, neurological conditions and processes, treatments, and expected outcomes.
• Updated patients charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Protected confidentiality of information related to patient care activities and EMS operations.
• Preparing patients for examination and providing them with the needed knowledge for speedy recovery.
• Assessed individual patient conditions, monitored behaviors and administered medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labor.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Providing appropriate proper recording of intake and output charts.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.

Diploma - Peri-Operative Nursing - College Of Nursing, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH Lagos State (2025-11)

Diploma - Nursing - School Of Nursing, Eku, Baptist Hospital, Delta State, Nigeria (2023-11)