Registered Nurse

Profile for MAUREEN MUKAMI NDUNG’U

P.O. Box **** – 20100, Nakuru

Tel: +254-***-***-***

E-mail:***************@*****.***

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dates of Employment From and to – month and year APRIL 2016 - DATE What is your position/title – NURSING OFFICER (REGISTERED NURSE) Hours of work per week- 40

Name of facility -RIFT VALLEY PROVINCIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL City- NAKURU

Country -KENYA

Nakuru Level Five Hospital previously referred to as Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital is a referral government tertiary facility in Nakuru, Kenya. It has 15 general wards with a bed capacity of approximately 622 with a bed occupancy of averagely 120% that is 720 patients. The facility also has a new maternity wing that was opened in October 2018 with a bed capacity of 250.The hospital provides medical, nursing and other therapeutic services. These includes emergency and outpatient care, ambulance services, maternal and child health care, surgical procedures, cardiology, cancer care, HIV care, orthopedic, dental care, ENT and ophthalmology services, pharmacy and laboratory services. The medical unit has both male and female wards admitting 36 patients on average per ward with various medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, malaria chronic obstructive airway diseases, cardiac conditions, meningitis and anemia among others. The patients are provided with total nursing care with nurse to patient ratio of 1:19 together with the patient attendants, the intern nurses, upgrading nurses and students. The unit nurses use nursing process to provide care to the patients to include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of patients’ needs. Name of Unit Currently working in: MEDICAL UNIT

Date started in current unit: JANUARY 2017-DATE

Number of beds in unit: 36

Previous units worked at THIS facility

Unit: SURGICAL UNIT APRIL 2016-JANUARY 2017

Duties and Responsibilities

Taking of patients health history and assessment and performing physical assessment

Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions, evaluating and documenting patient outcomes

Formulation of nursing care plans as per unique patient needs

Observe and measure vital signs to include temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and oxygen saturation

Performing emergency care to include cardio pulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation

Intravenous cannulation and maintaining patency

Catheterizing patients as per requirement and providing catheter care

Fluid administration as required to include handling of blood and blood products during transfusion, maintaining input and output charts

Monitoring and administering prescribed treatment and intravenous infusions

Collecting patient specimens and ensuring safe delivery to the laboratory

Ensuring infection prevention and control standards are maintained at all times

Carry out therapeutic communication with patient and conducting community health risk assessment

Ensuring patient nutrition requirements are met

Coordinating timely interdisciplinary activities involved in patient treatment and care

Facilitating patients admission into the medical ward and later initiating discharge plans

Providing health education and counseling to patients on identified health needs

Maintaining confidentiality on patient records, health condition and care

Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment

Participating in quality improvement and quality assurance procedure Cases cared for;

1. DIABETES MELLITUS

2. HYPERTENSION

3. MENINGITIS

4. MALARIA

5. CELEBRAL VASCULAR ACCIDENT

6. PNEUMONIA

7. ASTHMA

8. DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS

9. CARDIAC CONDITIONS

10. ANAEMIA

Equipment Used:

1. SUNCTION MACHINE

2. GLUCOMETER

3. PATIENT MONITORS

4. OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR

5. DEFIBRILLATOR

6. BLOOD PRESSURE

7.12 LEAD ECG MACHINE

8. FLUID/INFUSION SETS

9. CLINICAL THERMOMETERS

10. NEBULIZER MACHINE

Dates of Employment From and to – month and year: AUGUST 2013 –MARCH 2016 What is your position/title – NURSING OFFICER

Hours of work per week -40

Name of facility – EVANS SUNRISE MEDICAL CENTRE

City - NAKURU

Country- KENYA

Evans Sunrise Medical Centre is a private secondary level facility in Nakuru that provides a wide range of medical services to include; medical consultation, nursing services, ambulance evacuation services, high dependency unit services, operating theatres, maternal and child health services and psychiatry service. It has 75 bed capacity which care for inpatient and day care patients. The medical surgical wards provide medical and nursing services to patients admitted with various conditions that is; hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart diseases, cerebral vascular accident, malaria, head injury, meningitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, orthopedic cases and burns among others. Outpatient and emergency services include ambulance emergency response, basic and cardiac life support, care of patients with trauma, fractures, burns, asthmatic attack, diabetic ketoacidosis and hypertensive crisis. The patient nurse ratio is 1:6 with averagely two nurses per shift in each department with outpatient handling an average of 100 a day.

Units worked at THIS facility

Unit: MEDICAL SURGICAL AUGUST 2013 – MARCH 2016

Duties and Responsibilities

Provided preoperative, inter-operative and post-operative care to patients.

Managed pain and documented patient’s response to nursing and other interventions.

Discharged patients and followed up.

Maintained patient’s physical and psychosocial health.

Monitored safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.

Assessed signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.

Collected, analyzed, and interpreted data and information from health care members and documents actual and potential nursing diagnoses.

Documented patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.

Monitored consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.

Modified plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective and ineffective nursing interventions

Cases Cared For:

1. HEAD INJURY

2. BURNS

3. SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA

4. FRACTURES

5. PNEUMONIA

6. CONVULSIVE DISORDERS

7. HYPERTENSION AND HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS

8. DIABETES MELLITUS AND DIABETIC EMERGENCIES

9. TUBERCULOSIS

10. ASTHMA AND ASTHMATIC ATTACK

Equipment Used:

1. SUCTION MACHINE

2. OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR

3. DEFIBRILLATOR

4. ECG MACHINE

5. PATIENT MONITOR MACHINES

6. CLINICAL THERMOMETERS

7. FLUID/BLOOD INFUSION SETS

8. NEBULIZER

9. INFUSION PUMPS/GLUCOMETER

10. BLOOD PRESSURE MACHINE

Educational Background

Date of Degree: From MARCH 2009 to DECEMBER 2012

Degree earned: DIPLOMA IN NURSING

Name of university: KENYA MEDICAL TRAINING COLLEGE City and Country: MURANG’A, KENYA

Secondary School: MOI FORCES ACADEMY –LANET

Year of graduation: 2007

City and county: NAKURU, KENYA

Licensure & Certificates

RN License: KENYA, DECEMBER 2012, EXPIRES IN JULY, 2020 # 24011

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