Nursing Assistant Medical
Resume:
Rietfontein
Pretoria
Guateng
South Africa
To Whom It May Concern:
CONDENSED CV: SENIOR ENROLLED NURSE SHARON M. HOWIESON
Please find attached my Curriculum Vitae for your perusal.
I believe I can dynamically an professionally contribute as an Enrolled Nurse to a your professional team and am looking forward to meet and present myself to a selection board at your organisation
Sincerely yours,
Mrs Sharon Howieson Sharon Howieson
7 Place on 18th, Rietfontein, Pretoria, 0084 Gauteng, South Africa
***************@*****.***
PROFILE
Sharon Howieson is an experienced nurse with a passion for neonates in need of specialised medical attention.
With 23 years of nursing experience, Sharon has developed skill-sets throughout the spectrum of related disciplines. Ten of these years were mostly dedicated to mother/baby care and guidance, also working with Gynaecology patients.
Staff Nurse Howieson is a dedicated team player with excellent interpersonal skills. She maintains an unwavering stance on honesty, loyalty and integrity. She is presentable, adaptable, diligent, sensitive to other’s needs and willing to learn.
Her extensive field of nursing skill related experiences, including a solid foundation in administrative abilities, allow for employment opportunities over a wide range of applications in the nursing field.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Life Health Care Hospital (Crompton Hospital, Durban)
July 1998 to Dec 2015 – 17,5 years
Senior Enrolled Nurse
Sharon served diligently at The Crompton, covering duties in Medical, Paediatric and Surgical wards, also serving as the appointed Safety Representative in the Paediatric ward for a period of 3 years.
She further worked as the Medical Ward Secretary before finally moving on to the Maternity and Neonatal Wards, also covering duties in the Gynaecology ward, upon her qualifying as an Enrolled Nurse in 2005.
She served in this sphere for the next ten years, developing a deep affinity for prems and special medical care need babies, obviously also working intimately with mothers, preparing, coaching and supporting them pre- and post delivery. Sharon also assisted and facilitated in Crompton-initiated maternity awareness programmes, aimed at the broader public.
In her daily routine she worked as part of the ward interdisciplinary teams, contributing extensively to patient status/progress and executing on decisions by dispensing schedule drugs (per protocol) and medicines orally, setting-up IV lines and administrating injections, administering oxygen to babies, also performing patient specific treatments and coordinating related procedures.
Sharon is comfortable with typical ward administration, report writing and computer-based patient management systems having used the IMED (Life Health Care specific) platform intensively over her years of service. She is computer literate at user level proficiency in MS Word, Excel and other general applications.
At Crompton, Sharon was charged to periodically manage various disciplines, including a 3-bed Neonatal High Care Ward, the Maternity and Nursery ward (20+20 beds) and junior staff in those departments. She also managed and prepped operative patients pre- and post theatre. Her supportive interpersonal character naturally translated into a continual transfer of knowledge to- and life coaching of colleagues and junior staff in her areas of contact.
New Castle Hospital (Kwa-Zulu Natal)
Nov 1995 to Jun 1998 – 2 years, 7months
Nursing Assistant
Sharon served with distinction as a Nursing Assistant in surgical, medical and Maternity wards before moving to Durban in 1998.
Le Gratitude Old Age Home, New Castle (Kwa-Zulu Natal)
1993 to 1995 – 2 years
Nursing Assistant
Sharon commenced her medical career as a Ward Attendant in Le Gratitude Old Age Home where she assisted with Frail Care as well as Dementia patients.
During her service period here Sharon studied towards a nursing career and successfully completed as a Nursing Assistant in 1994, sitting her exams at the New Castle Hospital.
South African Police, Kokstad (Kwa-Zulu Natal)
1990 to 1991 – 1 year
Secretary to Station Commander
Sharon served in a secretarial role working directly for the Kokstad Police Station Commander.
In her role here she also acted as secretary to the Drug Squad and processed all local firearm licence applications.
Matriculation and Initial Years
1981 to 1991
Student, Home Executive
Ms Howieson matriculated in 1981, soon thereafter to be married and moving to Kokstad, where she became an Home Executive before joining the South African Police Force in an administrative capacity.
CONCLUSION
Sharon reared and cared for her special needs child to adulthood as a single mother. Her adult daughter is supportive and youngest son just enrolled as a third year student in the University of Pretoria. Sharon is fluent in English and Afrikaans as her second language.
References and certification will be supplied on request.
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