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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
Treatment Plan Modification
Preventive health
Time management abilities
Professionalism
Preventive health
Medical Procedure Preparation
Professional Bedside Manner
Interpersonal Communication
Unit Administration
Home Health Care
Teamwork and Collaboration
Healthcare Personnel Supervision
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