Registered Nurse
Current• Working as a fulltime registered nurse• Monitoring patient vital signs , communicating procedures in details with patient.• Assessing temporary catheters, fistulas and grafts.• Performing diabetic foot checks and routine fistulas, grafts and catheter care and providing education.• Assessing the effectiveness of procedures, as well as being responsible for work area cleanliness.• Initiate intervention measures as appropriate for emergencies.• Give early appropriate and adequate treatment in a sensible order of priority• Nursing documentation in a precise and concise manner.• Administering routine medications and anticoagulants to prevent clotting of the artificial kidney.• Prepares HD machines, checking cleanliness and readiness for operations.• Primes HD machines and HD dialysis blood lines as per protocol.• Performs hemodialysis as per order.• Cannulate HD access efficiently.• Monitor and manage HD complications.• Maintain patient comfort and safety during HD.• Assist needs of patient during HD.• Terminates HD treatment when completed.• Removes needles from Fistula.• Maintain a good professional relationship with patient’s relatives, visitors and colleagues.• Implemented organized care in an effective way.• Evaluated nursing care given to see if implementation has been effective, and instituted corrective action if necessary.• Gave total consideration to health and safety of all patients and enforced action to prevent infection, incorporated guidance from Infection Control. Take precautionary measures to ensure the safety of all patients.• Practiced holistic approach by providing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient.• Carried out therapeutic nursing procedures delegated by the Head Nurse and monitored patients conditions during the same.• Received and gave reports on patient’s condition and treatment prescribed by the physician to the in coming shift ensuring good, safe and effective communication.
