Olaniyan, Olabisi (Ola)

**-*** ****** ****, *******, BC V0N1V9: Cell Phone: 604-***-****

Email: ac2b5d@r.postjobfree.com.

Objective: The profile of a nurse-leader with strength in passion for client empowerment and professional acumen to building enduring greatness and mentoring others to do the right thing: A leader who accepts responsibility for personal failures and adept at building the workforce rather than eating the young colleagues. I believe in leading by serving.

Experience: January 3rd, 2017 to June 29th, 2017 (Manager, Mental Wellness and Recovery Services, Thompson General Hospital, Norther Region Health Authority, Thompson, Manitoba). My role includes:

Provide Human Resource functions that resonate the collective agreement

Work with stakeholders to ensure appropriate housing for the homeless persons

Participate in policy formulation, policy review and adherence to practice standards

Promote workplace health and safety: Maintain work-life-balance

Facilitate and promote clinical research activities and utilization of findings

Prepare and review departmental budget

Provide leadership and facility management at the Acute Psychiatric Unit, Community Mental Health, Mobile Crisis, and the Addiction Services

Advocate on behalf of the Northern Health Region Authority

Participate in planning and implementing in-service training and strategic planning activities

Experience: February 2013 to date (Mental Health Nurse, Tertiary Mental Health & Addiction Services, Gibsons BC, Canada) My role includes:

Conduct learning needs analysis, provide group facilitation, clinical teachings based on adult learning theories and principles, design curriculum, implement and evaluate learning outcomes

Serve medication, watch for effectiveness, tolerability, and report progress

Provide counseling service and diffuse stress post traumatic occurrence

Provide mentoring services, support, supervise, and resolve clinical matters

Collaborate with staffing department to ensure adequate staffing and skill mix

Work with the team to create and maintain conducive clinical learning environment

Advocate for service users and facilitate their development of self-advocacy skills

Conduct clinical assessment with clients and family, and report findings to team members

Collaborate with team and stakeholders to implement and evaluate interventions

Attend committee meetings such as the Joint Occupational Health & Safety (JOSH)

As a BCNU steward, I attended meetings with management to negotiate and resolve issues affecting patients’ care, and nurses’ productivity, competency, and wellbeing

Take minutes during ward rounds, team meetings, communicate and then follow up on decisions made.

April 2011-February, 2013 (Clinical Nurse Manager, Acute Psychiatric Unit, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)

Responsible for making monthly staff schedule of 17 nurses and 10 auxiliaries

I participated in clinical study to facilitate staff retention and to address nurses’ high turnover

Facilitated staff attendance of mandatory trainings towards building the workforce

Actively involved in risk assessment to ensure provision of effective safety strategies

I liaised with the affiliated universities and provided conducive clinical learning environments

I communicated with staff on clinical issues, policies, standards, visions, and missions to facilitate safe practice and delivery of evidence-based care that meets international standards.

January 2007-March, 2011 (Nurse Manager with Prescriptive Authority, Rehab services, Dublin, Ireland)

I performed assessments on assigned clients, ordered for diagnostic investigations, interpret results and issue prescriptions according to the Collaborative Practice Agreement

Worked in collaboration with the assigned consultants, clients, family, GP, and other team members. I used to represent the health service at community development forum

Prepared and reviewed the vision, mission statement, and model of nursing care for the unit

Provided consultation and leadership role to nurses and allied staff members

Participated as a resource person in clinical research such as self-staffing project

Actively involved in quality improvement activities such as clinical audit and policy review

Managed and reviewed health budget and prepared financial reports.

April 1996-August 2002 (Nursing Officer: Clinical Facilitator, Yaba Psych. Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria)

I conducted periodic education needs analysis and facilitated in-service training for staff

Supervised the use of the Nursing Process and provided supervision for all cadres of nurses

Classroom instruction on assigned courses in mental health nursing (such as pharmacology, principles of psychiatric nursing, mental health recovery and communitization process

Marked exams and evaluated students on practicum, and provided feedback

Accompanied students to internal and external facilities for their clinical experience

Conducted orientation for newly employed staff and students on clinical placement

I provided clinical demonstrations and conducted assessment and gave feedbacks to learners

Served as the liaison between the clinical areas and various affiliated health institutions.

1992-1996: Nursing Superintendent & Clinical Facilitator, Bowen University Teaching Hospital School of Nursing, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

This was a hospital based-mission school but now a teaching hospital recognized for producing quality health professionals including this writer. My role was majorly classroom teaching, clinical lab demonstration, and clinical supervision. For example, my duties included:

Prepare lesson notes and delivered lectures on the assigned subjects/courses

Facilitate clinical lab demonstration and provided supervision at various clinical areas

Conduct assessments on nursing students, and provided feedbacks

Supervise assigned students on their projects, case studies and research

Serving as staff advisor to the student union from 1993-1996.

Education:

PhD in Public Health-Walden University, Minneapolis (to be completed in 2018). Currently working on my dissertation with a focus on workplace health promotion.

Certificate in Nurse Prescribing-National University of Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2008

Management for Nurses-Dublin Institute of Technology, 2006

MSc. degree in Nursing-National University of Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2005

BSc. Health Education-University of Nigeria Nsukka, 1998

Registered Psychiatric Nurse-Neuro Psychiatric Hospital School of Nursing, WHO Collaborating

Centre, Aro-Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1993

Registered Nurse-Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, Nigeria, 1987.

Profile/Relevant Experience

Leading During Medical Emergencies: For example- I periodically conduct community-wide assessment to recognize population health trends, plan and implement evidence-based interventions. I facilitated healing using the Psychological First Aid tool during the 2017 community-based tragedy in Thompson. I facilitated a project on community youth resilience building. I served as a vaccinator and acting coordinator in Dublin (Ireland) during the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009/2010. Delegated people based on their competencies

A Teacher & Role Model: Conduct education need analysis (individual and organizational), design curriculum, negotiate human and material resources, provide teaching-learning interactions, perform measurement and evaluation and provide feedback. I Coordinated, facilitated, and supervised the use of the nursing process in clinical areas.

Capacity Building/Empowering Others: Perform people profiling, delegate with clear instruction and provide opportunities for people to demonstrate their dexterity without fear or favour. For example, I innovated self-medication training program for clients, designed the curriculum, arranged for co-facilitators, and performed program evaluation which led to improved medication compliance and clients becoming peer supports developing self-medication monitoring skills. I facilitated a project on family involvement in mental health rehabilitation interventions.

Safe Practitioner: I conduct physical assessment, mini mental state examination, order for needed laboratory investigations, issue prescriptions or make referrals. I facilitated use of surveillance tools such as SAD PERSON scale for early recognition of suicide risk. I introduced the use of LUNSER (Liverpool University Neuroleptic Side Effects Rating Scale) to facilitate medication safe use, effectiveness, and compliance.

Skills: Organizational, negotiation, interpersonal relations, teaching, group facilitation, presentation, mediation and conflict resolution, creativity, communication and computer skills such as Microsoft Word processing, PowerPoint, NVivo, SPSS, and CAQDAS (computer assisted qualitative data analysis software), change management, project management, knowledge of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, behavioral theories and sciences, pathophysiology, psychopathology, and epidemiology.

Membership: BCNU as local steward. Member of the International Nurses Association

Award: World Wide Leader in Health Care (by the International Nurses Association, 2015).

Referees: (1) Mr. C. Bracken: Area Director of Nursing Dublin South Central Mental Health Service: Email: ac2b5d@r.postjobfree.com (2) Anne Treacy: Assistant DON, Dublin South Central M.H.S: ac2b5d@r.postjobfree.com (3) Paul Okere: (Frm) Director Mental & Behavioral Health NRHA, Manitoba: +1-204-***-**** (4) Leslie Penner: Clinical Coordinator, Sumac Place, Gibsons, BC-604-***-****.

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