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Hardworking Registered Nurse with success providing individualized patient care. Committed to delivering best-in-class patient care through effective education and counseling. Proven leadership focused on increasing and enhancing patient care and satisfaction. Streamline safety protocols for comprehensive patient care.
· Teach clinical skills classes and theory lessons
· guide students through their first clinical rotations
· Teach for large nursing student groups at medical and surgical hospitals, training nurses and on new protocols
· Planning and teaching curriculum
· Lecturing and guiding class discussions
· Overseeing independent study
· Supervising lab and clinical work
· Evaluating and grading students' work
· Serving as an advisor on academic and career issues
· Serving as a mentor and role model
· Overseeing graduate projects, dissertations, and research
· Sitting on nursing department committees and developing programs
· Conducting research and publishing results
· Staying up to date on the latest in nursing practice
· Recruiting new students
· Connecting with the community through outreach
· To support the department sister in providing cover for the
Hospital at night.
· Patient focused services.
· Provide leadership and support for the overnight nursing team in the Surgical and Orthopedic Unit, managing performance, and facilitating education and professional development.
· Responsibility for the assessment of patient care needs, and the planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
· Responsibility for deployment of staff, resource management and the safety of the clinical work environment, coordinating responses to routine pressures and emergency situations in delegated areas.
· Responsibility for supervision of staff and students on rotational and permanent night shifts working in wards and Accident and Emergency Department.
· Communicate effectively with patients, carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team, in styles appropriate to people and situations, minimising and resolving conflict and complaint.
· Ensures accurate record keeping in accord with local standards.
· Make necessary clinical and managerial decisions on all aspects of the overnight management of the allocated ward/department.
· Ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of service.
· Recognise situations that require assistance and support accordingly.
· Prioritising and meeting competing demands from patients, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
· Develop the clinical and management skills and knowledge necessary to contribute to service developments.
•Assist patients in and out of taxis, ambulances and cars.
• Lift patients on and off beds, with the assistance of nurses
• Transfer patients files and x-rays between departments, specimens to laboratories
• Make sure that an adequate supply of clean clothing and linen is available for the patient and that
soiled items are removed and cleaned
• Transport specimens to laboratories
• Deliver and collect linen, rubbish, infectious waste, specimens and equipment
• Maintain clean and prepare wheelchairs, trolleys and other equipment
• Assist in administrative duties such as photocopying ward forms
• Assist in the maintenance of stocks of linen and non-medical supplies
• Assist in lifting and turning patients, transporting them in wheelchairs, stretches or on movable
beds between wards and departments
• Clean rooms such as bathrooms, showers, utility rooms and offices and clean interior windows
• Clean equipment in the pan room such as pan trolleys, buckets, pans, bowls, suction bottles and
tubing, commodes, wheel chairs and seats, and rinse trays
• Wash patients' lockers and tables
• Discuss patients concerns with nurses
• Accompany patients, who are ready for discharge, to the central waiting area
• Transport equipment, X-rays, patient records and deceased patients between wards,
departments, theatres and mortuary
• Attend emergency cardiac arrest calls, fire and other urgent situations within the hospital,
grounds and patient rest
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