Natasha Drozdow RN, BScN

**** **** **, *** *******, ON, L0L 2L0

Phone: 705-***-**** Email: ad4lwg@r.postjobfree.com

Registered Nurse-Wound Care and Ostomy

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A compassionate professional committed to providing an exceptional experience for staff and clients within a challenging and exciting health care environment. EMPLOYMENT

Barrie and Community Family Health Team Clinic Nurse 2016-present Family Medicine Clinic/(Bell Farm) Resource Nurse

Previous Employment Experience:

Casual Hospice Simcoe Palliative Nurse

Part-Time Saint Elizabeth HealthCare Clinical Head Nurse -Ambulatory Care Centre

Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Soldiers’ 1 - Telemetry/Medicine

EDUCATION & CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Coronary Care 1/Critical Care 2 Certified

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Canada (NSWOCC) Certified LEAP/Fundamentals of Palliative Care Certified

Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Certified

Basic Cardiac Life Support Certified/HCP

Crisis Management Skills Training

Leadership and Teamwork Skills Training

Applied Cessation Counselling and Health (TEACH) Project at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Ontario Tobacco Research Unit: Tobacco and Public Health Certified Peritoneal Dialysis Training

Wound Care Specialty/Risk Assessment and Prevention

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent time management, organization, and overall coordination skills

• Professional judgement: knowledge and skill pertaining to wound care and ostomy

• Skillful ability to organize patient care activities, remain flexible and adapt to crisis situations and change

• Experience with community capacity building, advocacy and harm reduction

• Extensive medical clinic experience for patients with complex conditions requiring more care/time to develop co-ordinated and integrated care plans; appropriate and uniform prioritization for triaging patient referrals

• Compassionate, dedicated; demonstrate professional leadership skills

• Superior ability to demonstrate sensitivity to spiritual, cultural and other relevant contexts of care

• Valid G driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle is required

• Well-developed interpersonal, coping skills; ability to provide care within a case management framework with strong clinical skills and ability to balance multi-focused needs within a patient centered care setting

• Superior ability to interpret and apply relevant legislation while consistently demonstrating accountability to the public with a continued interest and commitment to professional growth

• Demonstrate proficiency in written and verbal communication skills in relation to collaborating with patients across the care continuum

• Ability to work effectively with diverse populations through a variety of health care settings

• Ability to clearly articulate nursing assessments and patients' goals of care

• Effective problem solving and conflict management skills

• Well acquainted working with clients with multiple co-morbidities

RELEVANT SKILLS

• Initiate and maintain communication and collaboration with physicians, social workers, care team leaders, staff nurses, other care giving disciplines and patients/families to develop, implement and evaluate a transition plan of care for each patient

• Conduct comprehensive patient/family assessment and transition/home care planning evaluation to maintain the patient's transition plan of care with superior attention to detail and confidentiality

• Demonstrate solid performance of discharge planning for medical and community referrals for patients with health problems requiring further evaluation and/or additional services

• Coordinate and facilitate patient progression throughout the continuum and collaborate with all members in clinical performance improvement activities to achieve set goals

• Through therapeutic communication, provide emotional support along with health teaching and counseling patients and their families on health-related issues while respecting culturally diverse populations to be a strong patient advocate

• Demonstrate diplomacy and political astuteness while communicating with regulatory bodies

• Communicate effectively and provide complete care for patients that are non-verbal, have comorbidities and live with the challenges of varying mental illness’

• Skillful in application of health promotion to plan and implement policy development, community mobilization and development

• Critically evaluate and analyze physical and psychosocial assessment data

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