Kirsten Bernard Email & Phone Number

South West, England, United Kingdom

Clinical Educator for Pulmonary team.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Work for a 24/7 NHS integrated urgent care service covering Bristol, South Somerset, and South Gloucester, as a practitioner I telephone triage patients and decide if they can be managed virtually or require a physical appointment.• Time management – triage large volume of calls in a timely manner• Work under pressure – being the front line of the service I am responsible for not over burdening the service provision whilst ensuring all the correct urgent cases are seen• Critical thinking and decision making – deciding if the patient can be managed virtually or requires a physical appointment of which there is a finite number• Responsible for the safe application of history taking, clinical assessment (remote and face to face), critical thinking and decision making, providing diagnoses and management options, strong safety netting advice and referrals to other services.

Bristol

Work between the acute medicine ward which sees 7000+ patients throughout the year, the same day emergency clinic (SDEC) which sees 5000+ and the medical take in the ED. Working both independently and as an integral member of multi-disciplinary team, my role requires patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care planning in the busy acute medicine department in a central city hospital. • Teamwork – collaboratively working in a team of other medical professionals, problem solving for new staff on the ward, reliable team member people can depend on • Independent work – assessing risk and problem solving when clerking patients independently in SDEC, working within my competencies, critical thinking, escalating when appropriate • Leadership – leading multidisciplinary team ward round meetings, delegating jobs to colleagues, integral decision making about patient care plans • Presentation skills – confidently lead educational sessions for PA students. Present patient cases at daily board round meetings • Accurate record keeping and written communication – record well-structured patient histories to ensure all essential information is relayed to colleagues in written form • Communication skills – liaise with other specialty teams to concisely convey key information about patients • Time management – manage multiple patients at once, able to prioritise tasks and reliably meet deadlines to ensure patients are discharged or moved from the ward in a timely manner • Clinical skills - venepuncture, cannulation, ECGs, injectionsKey achievements • Created medical OSCE exam practice session timetable for PA students • The 2023 yearly performance review showed a 75% increase of patients seen on the ward and an 85% increase of patients seen in SDEC. • Involved in ASPECT research trial, identifying, recruiting, and consenting participants

Royal Wootton Bassett, England, United Kingdom

Running my own clinics for patients with both acute and chronic health conditions• Adaptability – often had my clinic lists changed last minute due to staff sickness or the practices requirements• Resilience – as triage clinician deciding which patients would be granted on the day appointments, I managed the unsuccessful patients who were unhappy with decisions I had made • Initiative – developed and implemented a PA student placement and teaching timetable• Communication – able to break bad news about diagnoses and treatments to patients and relatives in an empathetic and caring way • Conflict resolution – effectively managing unhappy patients when they’re expectations of the outcomes of their consultations are not met such as refusing to prescribe medications that are not clinically indicate • Product demonstration - medication counselling and demonstrations of how to use medical products such as inhalers and peak flow meters • Mentoring and teaching - created and delivered a teaching timetable and devised a student PA rota for their placement.

University Of The West Of England

• Completed MSc in Physician Associate Studies• Clinical placement in both primary and secondary care.• Systematic literature review looking at fine-needle aspirations as a diagnostic technique for thyroid cancers. • Dedicated member of the Physician Associate committee

Cadbury Heath Health Centre

• Running my own clinics with GP supervision seeing range of conditions from minor illness to chronic conditions.• Attended work place training sessions.• Joined ECP's on house visits to house bound and palliative patients.• BLS training

Weston-Super-Mare General Hospital

• Rotated through a range of secondary care specialties both surgical and medical - cardiology, respiratory, endocrinology, gastroenterology, urology, stroke, geriatric medicine, ED, acute medicine wards, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery.• Attended grand rounds, physician associate and F1 teaching sessions.• Clinical QI Project: Incentive Spirometry in a post-laparotomy cohort• Clinical skills - venipuncture, cannulation, ABGs, ECGs, catheterisation

Bristol

Provided administrative support to Arts Council England’s team of Directors and Senior Relationship Managers• Organisation skills – servicing and event-managing internal and external business meetings, collating and distributing agendas and papers, note taking and actioning meeting outcomes.

City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Working as part of the wildlife licensing team• Data analysis and input – managing a large amount of data using Microsoft programmes and company software

Dorking

Worked as part of the in house resourcing function within HR, in the recruitment process for three new graduate students. Involved in the selection process and analysis of over 200 candidate CV’s, liaised with candidates to organise Skype interviews. Was vital in the organisation of two assessment days held at Unum HQ in Dorking.• Data analysis - Completed a LinkedIn audit of all Unum staff and created a presentation on how to improve employer branding that was used in Unum’s marketing plan to improve their brand identification. • Organisation skills - Mapped out entire computer storage system of HR files using screenshots in order to keep a copy for the organisation, then reorganised into a more efficient structure.

Master'S Degree, Physician Associate, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Physician Associate Society

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: University of Birmingham SailingDuring my degree at Birmingham I undertook a variety of modules focusing.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Reigate college girls football teamResults: A levels- Psychology (A), Biology (B), History (B). AS level- French.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Netball team, rounders team (captain), rugby team, gym and dance performance.9 GCSE's A-B: including English.