Registered Charge Nurse - DAvita Dialysis - McAllen, Texas 78501 USA
(2024-07)
40 hours / week, 12 Patients per session. Area: Dialysis Unit
Staff Nurse - Evangelista Medical Specialty Hospital - Macaria Avenue, San Pedro, Laguna
(2024-01 - 2024-03)
40 hours / week, 3-6 Patients per session. Area: Dialysis Unit
- Admit and discharge the patient
- Assess patients' needs and apply the nursing process to every patient
- Assessment of arteriovenous fistula/graft. Cannulation of access when matured
- Ensure equipment and consumables are free of defects
- Initiate dialysis treatment as ordered by a nephrologist
- Monitor the patient's condition before, during, and after dialysis
- Report to the physician any adverse reaction or abnormal laboratory findings
- Provide health teaching to patients and families
- Promote patient safety
- Administer medications and blood products as ordered
- Documentation
Staff Nurse - Royal Commission Hospital - Jubail City, KSA
(2011-11 - 2023-08)
48 hours / week, 2-3 Patients per session. Area: Renal Dialysis Unit. JCIA standards
- Admit and discharge the patient
- Assess patients' needs and apply the nursing process to every patient
- Assist in the insertion of a dialysis catheter, ensure safety, and maintain patency and infection-free catheter
- Assessment of arteriovenous fistula/graft. Cannulation of access when matured
- Prepare the dialysis machine, and ensure equipment and consumables are free of defects. Initiate dialysis treatment as ordered by a nephrologist
- Monitor the patient's condition during dialysis
- Report to the physician any adverse reaction, or abnormal laboratory findings
- Provide health teaching to patients and families
- Promote patient safety
- Administer medications and blood products as ordered
- Documentation
- Disinfection of machine
- Ensure the water supply is disinfected twice a month in coordination with Biomed staff
Staff Nurse - Royal Commission Hospital - Jubail Industrial City, KSA
(2006-01 - 2011-11)
48 hours / week, 4-6 Patients. Area: Male Surgical Ward
- Provides primary and functional nursing care
- Admit patients from OPD or ER
- Integrate nursing process in the delivery of care: Perform physical assessment, identify problems to formulate a nursing diagnosis, plan, and set goals, carry out plans and collect objective data to determine the extent to which goals were achieved and revise the plan as needed
- Prepare the patient for the procedure to be done. Determine the patient's needs for a certain circumstance. (e.g NPO, shaving, enema, laboratory works, procedure consent)
- Assist the doctor in minor surgery or procedure such as chest tube insertion, wound debridement and etc., prepare the necessary equipment needed for the procedure
- Perform wound or post-operative dressing/removal of suture aseptically, intravenous cannulation, NGT and urinary catheter insertion, and blood extraction
- Check and record vital signs, and inform the physician on duty for an unusual result
- Interpret laboratory results and inform physicians
- Administer blood and blood products as ordered
- Administer medications in accordance (9) RIGHTS
- Administer oxygen as needed, monitor ECG if required, and suction secretions
- Endorse properly to health care providers for proper coordination in the delivery of care
- Response immediately to any emergency situation or disaster (Code Blue, Code Red, Code Yellow)
- In a Code Blue situation, give supplementary ventilation, insert oral or nasal airway, assist the physician in intubation, do suctioning, perform chest compression, initiate intravenous accessibility, monitor vital signs, and apply Automated External Defibrillator, give medications, and record time accurately
- Maintains high standard of nursing care
- Pre and post-operative care
- Carry-out doctor's orders intelligently
- Give Health Teachings
- Act as team leader as circumstances require
- Participate actively in the training and education programs
- Participate in the development of all areas of nursing practice
- Document properly and accurately
