Registered Nurse
Current• Ensured narrative (nurse's) documentation or charting is completed for every handled patient and made use of the nursing practice process (SOAPIE) accordingly. • Made use of hospital equipment like sphygmomanometer and stethoscope, infusion pumps, suction machine, glucometers, etc.; to gather vital data and provide nursing interventions. • Activation & initiation of Emergency codes and hospital safety measures. • Administration of medicines (oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, sublingual, oral per rectum, etc.) and explaining briefly its purpose, with observance of the 5basic patient's rights. • Provision of Healthcare education to patient, their families and suggestion of therapeutic measures. • Carry out Doctors’ orders and taking the responsibility of clarifying the orders once in doubt and become patient's advocate. • Ensured early recognition of patient deterioration and early notification to consultants, house surgeons, and/or medical interns.• Performed intravenous cannulation, male/female urinary catheterization, blood transfusion and other basic bedside nursing practice procedures. • Adept in patient admission and discharge planning and making referrals to non-hospital based sectors and health providers. • Precepts nursing trainees, volunteers and nursing students with proper delegation of work according to their scopes.• Infection control ( partook in hand hygiene initiative which achieved 80.8% success in quarter 3 & 4 2015 )• Participated in Austin health injury prevention program through better manual handing such there was a hospital wide reduction of 28% in injury from 133 to 95 in the same year.
