Stuart Mccormick Email & Phone Number

Dunfermline, GB

Central Belt, Scotland

Working in surgical, high dependency, intensive care and assessment units across Fife, Tayside, Edinburgh, Forth Valley and Clyde.

Forth Valley Royal Hospital

This role was developed to identify Falkirk Council patients, on admission to the emergency department and follow them through their admission and for a week post discharge. To ensure continuity, we were expected to liaise with allied healthcare professionals, medical staff and attend ward updates. This allowed us to ensure discharge needs were met..

Surgical Units

As a senior staff nurse I took charge of our, 60 bed, private hospital, at night, I was involved in ensuring patient safety and adequate staffing levels, as well as reviewing all deteriorating patients and escalating care, as required. This might just be increasing routine observation, moving them to one of our monitored beds, contacting medical staff, for.

Critical Care Unit

Safe and Evidenced based care of adults and children requiring intensive therapy, high dependency or acute coronary care as well as remote telemetry monitoring of at risk patients in other wards. While in post I developed an algorithm, for the use of continuous lateral flow therapy.

Cardiothoracic Unit

Ten bedded cardiothoracic intensive care unit and pre/post surgical ward. Here I cared for patients requiring the highest level of care and treatment, using inotropic drug therapy, invasive monitoring, ventilators and support devises, such as VAD, IABP, ECMO and CVVH.

Post Graduate Certificate, Pain Manaagement

A Degree in Adult Nursing and a Post Graduate Certificate in Pain Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Nursing Studies

Part Time