TERRENCE SAKALA

DIPLOMA IN REGISTERED NURSING

SUMMARY

I am a compassionate Registered Nurse with experience providing healthcare services to individuals and community groups to support them with day-to-day health issues. I am a kind, respectful nurse with demonstrated conflict resolution skills and strong decision-making abilities.

EXPERIENCE

Kamoto Mission Hospital

Hospital size: 110 beds

Department: Male ward, theatre department and community

Position: Staff Nurse

Nurse-to-patient ratio: 1:5

Ward size: 20 Beds capacity

Proven and effective communication skills with patients, families, and other professionals. A reliable member of a hospital multi-disciplinary team.

Contribute effectively to quality health care.

Able to recognize the needs of my clients/patients and devise appropriate need based care plan

Collaborating with other professionals to optimize patient’s comfort and families’ understanding their individuality

Responsibilities:

Wound dressing

Assisting patients with mobility needs with the use of wheelchairs, Zimmer frames, and other equipment

Safe Administration of medicine respecting the 6 rights

Giving psychological care to patients and relatives.

Care planning for assessed patient needs.

Assisting patients with day-to-day personal care needs ie. Dressing

Nasal gastric tube insertion, Nasal gastric tube feeding, and percutaneously gastric feeding

Giving health education.

Vein puncture and cannulation.

Catheter insertion and care.

Accompanying Doctors on ward rounds and carrying out plans.

Common Cases Handled:

Old and frail patients, Patients with Psychosis and Dementia, Pneumonia, Neonatal Asphyxia, Neonatal Sepsis, COPD, Chest infections, Renal failure, CCF, PTB, Hypertension, Abortion, CVA, Snake bites, Soft tissue injury, Head injury, Burns, Hepatitis, DM, Asthma, Hypoglyceamia, Gastritis, Intestinal Obstruction, fractures, malnutrition

2018-2023 Worked as a carer at home

Looked after my sick cousin

Bathing and giving assisted baths

Cooking for him.

Doing laundry

Administering medication

Assisting him with feeding and support with dressing and undressing.

Makangila primary School, 2018.

Volunteered as a primary school teacher for four months.

Planning and prepared lesson plans for teaching.

Research and implementing new teaching methods.

Contributed effectively to the betterment of the pupil’s academic performance.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Mwami college of nursing and midwifery

Diploma in Registered Nursing

Period: 2019-2021

Country: Zambia.

Kaputi secondary school

School Certificate,

Period :2015-2017

HOBBIES

Devoted Christian of the seventh-day Adventist church

Traveling and making new friends

Playing football

Reading books

Singing

Listening to gospel songs

REFEREES

Mwami Nursing School

Mr George Tepa

Tutor

Mobile: +260*********

Email: ad1429@r.postjobfree.com

Kamoto Mission Hospital

Mrs Esnala Banda Phiri

Nursing officer

Mobile; +260-*********

CONTACT

Address: Kamoto mission hospital private bag 14, Mambwe District.

Phone: +260-*********

Email:ad1429@r.postjobfree.com

Date of birth: Nov 16, 1998

Nationality: Zambian

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Single

SKILLS

Leadership abilities; advocating for patients’ specific care goals and able to create policy changes within nurses to support safe patient care.

Team work. Able to coordinate with fellow nurses, clinicians and staff in the care decisions of the patients.

Able to effectively communicate in a multi-disciplinary team and answering patients’ questions in a kind and compassionate way.

Counselling skills; help patients focus on a goal or outcome and develop strategies that support self-care and enable individuals and their family to participate in health care.

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