Aswathi Varunkumar

Looking for a challenging position in the field of Nursing where I can utilize my profound medical professional and practical experiences, which will lead to improve my professional and personal growth.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Since 20th Feb 2021 working as a Staff Nurse in Dental Care Specialized Centre, Doha, Qatar.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Providing assistance to dentists and other dental care professionals, throughout a patient’s visit.
• Generally preparing and tidying the surgery. Maintaining sterile conditions within the surgery and make sure health and safety policy is adhered to.
• Taking Xray & OPG (Panoramic)
• Sterilizing instruments.
• Passing relevant instruments to the dentist.
• Helping dentists record information about each patient and carry out stock control.
• Helping in reception particularly at busy times - dealing with the administration of the practice, booking appointments, greeting and reassuring
• Making sure the patient is always relaxed and comfortable during the treatment.
• Monitoring patients' welfare when the dentist is using general anesthesia during treatment.
• Maintaining the treatment history of the patients for the future reference.

From 1st May 2019 to 2nd November 2019 worked as a Staff Nurse .in KRH Hospital, Kasaragode Kerala,India.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direct quality care to patients including monitoring, recording and evaluating of medical condition.
• Lead and monitored newly licensed nurses in developing and achieving professional expertise.
• Supervised the admission of patients in emergency cases. 
• Correct administrations of IV fluids and accurate dispensed medications,
• Analyzed laboratory report.

From 5th February 2018 to 24th April 2019 worked as a Staff Nurse .in Dhanalakshmi Hospital, Kannur, India.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Caring for patients who are suffering from acute and long-term illnesses and diseases. 
• Administrating drugs, medication, and injections of patients. 
• Treating patients with respect and dignity and giving attention to individual needs.
• Prioritizing workloads and allocating patients appropriately. 
• Maintaining high clinical standards and high levels of quality care delivery.
• Reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions. 
• Maintained the collection of patient’s health records. Documented the observation of changes in a patient report.
• Organizing junior staffs.
• Providing information, emotional support to patients and relatives. 
• Sterilizing instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensuring that an essential stock of supplies is maintained.

From 1st January 2015 to 31st January 2018 worked as a Staff Nurse in VIMS Hospital,Calicut, Kerala,India.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Managing the admission and discharging of patients.
• Interacting with the medical bodies in the hospital regarding patient’s health status.
• Assisting to the doctors during the regular rounds & check-ups.
• Providing assistance to the Nursing Superintend.
• Preparing nursing orders.
• Maintaining the patient charts and activities.
• Provide excellent support in Operation Theater.
• Handling medical ward, emergency rooms, and out-patient environments.
• Handling injuries and illnesses, including administering medications, applying medical devices.
• Identify patient care needs.
• Collecting the test samples of the patients & sending them in to the labs.
• Collecting the test reports from the labs and reporting the same to the concerned Doctors.
• Providing the necessary medicines to the patients.
• Interacting with the patients regarding their regular health reports.
• Providing suggestions and psychological supports to family members and patients.

BSc Nursing from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Indi.