Registered Practical Nurse

SAND HYA VEN UGOPAL

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North York,Toronto,Onta rio, M6L 1B4

Contact number-647-***-****

CNO Registration Number for RPN- AD 045133

Email- ************@*****.**.**

Career Objective

Seeking a challenging position in an organisation to enhance, develop and implement

professional nursing care and management skills where my profound medical and practical

experience will be fully utilized.

Career Summary

A patient oriented and caring professional with excellent patience and remarkable organizing skills

possessing total 10 years of experience in the Cardio Thoracic Nursing.

Professional Experience

11th OCTOBER 2008 – 30th SEPTEMBER 2014: Cardio Thoracic and Interventional

Cardiology.

Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

• Refine critical thinking, problem solving,organisation and acute care skills to work

effectively with critically ill patients.

• Extending immediate nursing care to clients with Congestive Cardiac failures,Cardiogenic

Shocks, Pulmonary Odema.Promote health and support families in coping with

illness.Emergency management in cardiac arrest.

• Care for patients undergoing surgeries like CABG,Valve Replacement and Repair,

Thoracic surgeries( Pneumonectomy, Lobectomy, Thymectomy,Decortication), Diagnostic

Angiogram and Angioplasty.

• Read and interpret Cardiac monitor and perform 12 lead ECG.

• Care for patients with pacemaker(temporary and permanent), intercoastal drains, Non

Invasive Ventilator, Tracheostomy,Central Venous catheters.

• Health education to petients depending on their condition, incentive spirometry, chest

binder and chest physiotherapy and effective infection control measures

• Admission and discharge procedures,medication administraton, collecting blood samples,

performing dressings and ABG,insertion of urinary catheters.

• Provide training to the new staffs.Assist the nurse manager in supervising the juniors.

• Participate in Quality Improvement programs, researchs, and audits.

• Representative of the infection control team for the department.

22nd DECEMBER 2004 – 30th SEPTEMBER 2007: CARDIO THORACIC ICU

Government Medical College Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala, India

• Implement individualised, goal directed nursing care to clients with acute and chronic care

needs through use of nursing process in accordance with hospital policies and procedures

• Maintain continuous hemodynamic monitoring and support for all critically ill patients, with

an overall goal in delivering this care to minimize morbidity and mortality as well as to

facilitate optimal patient outcomes.

• Providing comprehensive nursing care to clients with Cardiac Arrhythmias, Open heart

Surgeries, Thoracic surgeries, Cardiogenic shocks.

• Care of clients on Ventilators, Tracheostomy, Endotracheal intubation, syringe pumps and

infusion pumps.

• Provide post operative care, wound care, drainage care, insertion of urinary catheter and

NGT.

• Perform isolation techniques and maintain sterile field. Provide patient and family

education based on their conditions.

• Document the care clearly, comprehensively and accurately.

10th MARCH 2004 – 21st DECEMBER 2004: Medical – Surgical Ward

St. Jude’s Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala, India

• Perform admission and discharge procedures

• Providing necessary medicines, sterile dressing, record vital signs, maintain patient charts

• Provide direct care by performing comprehensive health assessments, developing

differential diagnoses etc

• Arrange infection control lectures to all patients

Equipments Handled: Ventilator,Non invasive ventilator,Infusion Pump, Syringe

Pump,Defibrillator,Cardiac monitors, ECG machine, Nebuliser, Ambu bag, VAC machine.

Education Qualification: Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery

Continuing Education: BLS Provider Course,ACLS Provider Course, IV Therapy,ECG

Interpretation, Manual and Lifting Course, Nursing Process Workshop, Wound Care Management,

Nursing Preceptor Course.Currently enrolled in Health Assessment Course, Pharmacology for

Nurses,Critical Thinking for nurses and Mathematics for nurses.

Computer Knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.

Languages known – English, Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic.

Declaration

I hereby inform you that all the information given above is true in best of my knowledge. I strongly

wish to relocate in a dynamic concern to strive and achieve betterment through my meticulous

and whole hearted service.

Date- 03 December 2014

Toronto SANDHYA VENUGOPAL

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