Nomusa Ngcobo
Clinical Nurse Practitioner
About
Clinical Nurse Practitioner at a Call Centre.
Experience
Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Company Wellness Solutions - Claremont, Cape Town
(2024-04 - 2025)
Clinical Nurse Practitioner at a Call Centre.
- Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of minor ailments while the agents are on duty
- Vital signs check for wellness care and for early diagnosis and care
- Team management (first aiders)
- Emergency care and referrals
- Healthcare communication
- Statistics and records keeping for future reference
Nurse Mentor Operational management - Medecins Sans Frontieres - Eshowe (KwaZulu-Natal)
(2019-02 - 2019-09)
- Healthcare administration
- Employed on contract for 9 months
- Staff training and supervision
- Mentor in Community farm workers project in rural KZN
- HIV testing and management to farmworkers at their workplace
- Conflict resolution
- Follow up care for clients on treatment
- Issuing of ARVs and keeping/ update their records
- Orientation and mentoring DOH personnel on how to run the service
- Handing over the Project to DOH
Agency Staff in Theatre Recovery Room - Mediclinic - Constantiaberg, Cape Town
(2023-01 - 2024-03)
- Receiving patients after having operation
- Monitoring the vital signs until the patient is fully recovered and ready to go back to the ward
- Control, ordering and issuing of scheduled medication to the anaesthetic nurses
- Resuscitation and emergency care when necessary
- Communication with doctors and the ward personnel
Operational Manager - Department of Health KwaZulu-Natal - Ladysmith
(2013-12 - 2017-12)
- Overall supervision at the clinic
- Administrative duties
- Management of personnel, materials and Financials
- Attending meetings and giving feedback to all staff
- Community involvement by including them in meetings and allowing them to make suggestions
- Clinical duties, and help to fast-track the priority clients
- Compilation of statistics monthly, quarterly and annually
Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Department of Health KwaZulu-Natal - Ladysmith
(2007-11 - 2013-11)
- Doing clinical duties doing assessments, diagnosis and treatment of clients
- Administrative duties in the absence of the Operational Manager
- Was later allocated as HAST manager
- Attending to patients with HIV, TB, and STI's, education and treatment
- Initiating ADVISED and TB treatment and doing follow-up care
- Referrals when needed
Education
Diploma in General Nursing Science (1980-01 - 1984-11)
Diploma in Midwifery - Edendale College (1984-03 - 1985-02)
Advanced Diploma in Midwifery - Prince Mshiyeni College of Nursing (1988-08 - 1989-07)
Diploma in Primary Health Care (Assessment, diagnosis and treatment) - Madadeni College of Nursing (2001-09 - 2002-08)
Diploma in Community Nursing Science - UKZN (2002-02 - 2002-11)
