Medical surgical nursing

Rebecca Mori Ngala

Gender: Female

Citizen: Kenyan

Mobile: +254-***-***-***

Email: ********@*****.***

Profile Summary

A dedicated professional, benefiting from experience working effectively as part of a multi- disciplinary healthcare team. Resourceful, responsive to change whilst achieving collective objectives in the caring and development of patients. Possessing a developed patient centred philosophy of care through innovative caring skills together with practical nursing skills. Record of managing busy caseloads, promoting services, increasing personal and professional standards. Now looking forward to an opportunity for career progression and rewards on merit. Work Experience

November 2015- to present

Hospital: Mediheal Hospital

Department: Surgical ward

Position: Staff Nurse

Roles and Responsibilities

• Providing and supervising care for surgical patients who are either chronically or critically ill.

• Monitoring patients' physical conditions, prescribing medication, administering medicine and formulated symptom management strategies.

• Applying nursing theory and research to clinical practice, and functioned as a researcher, and administrator and educators in the field.

• Providing psychological support for patients and relatives.

• Delivering educational programmes including wound management.

• Undertaking the management of patients as well as organising appropriate support services.

• Dealing with trauma patients after surgery.

• Member of a cohesive multi-disciplinary team within a busy surgical department, assisting with operations.

• At a practical level, working in recovery, duties include airway management, pain management, monitoring temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration rates, giving injections and administering medications, care of dressings and drains, administering blood transfusions and intravenous therapy.

• Planning, assessing, and evaluating care for patients, aiming to meet the needs – physical, emotional and social – of the whole person.

• Overseeing student nurses and Return to Practice students.

• Ensured patients’ physical, social and psychological needs by maintaining an individual patient care system, evaluation and updating as necessary.

• Initiated and provided high quality holistic nursing care to a range of patients. In charge of areas in the Acute surgical Department and of the whole ward in the absence of Head Nurse.

• Assisted with inducting new nurses to the medical care setting and organized teaching sessions for newly qualified nurses.

• Mentored to student and newly qualified nurses.

• Assisted with nursing audits.

• Provided high quality patient care (including those with complex needs), and Acute Pain Service

• Improved nursing and patient care procedures and practices.

• Assisted the Unit Nurse Manager and ensured that nursing staff operated in accordance with the nursing services values, purpose, vision, policies, procedures and all relevant nursing competencies and standards.

• Co-ordinated activity within a designated area, such as patient admission, wound dressing and discharges.

• Helped develop and implement quality policies and procedures. June 2010- October 2015

Hospital: Mombasa Hospital

Department: surgical ward

Position: Senior Staff Nurse

Roles and Responsibilities

Expertise Areas

• Care Management

• Cancer Education

• Medical and Surgical

• Behavioural Assessments

• Safe Drug Handling

• Health Promotion

• Caseload and Time Management

• Patient Counselling

• Trauma and Wound Management

• Pain Assessments

• Patient Care

• Moving and Handling

• Palliative Care

• Quality of Life Issues

• Glucometer

• Weighing scale

• Pulse oximeter

• Blood pressure monitor

• oxygen machines

• Nebulizers

• Suction machine

• Thermometer

Equipment Managed

• Burns

• Stab wounds

• Gunshot wounds

• Puncture wounds

• Mass casualties

• Near drowning

• Appendicitis

• Wound debridement

• Diabetic foot

• Fractures

• Cellulitis

• Tonsillitis

Cases Managed

Expertise areas

• Care management

• Health Promotion support

• Patient Care

• Team Working

• Supervision

• Caseload

• Time Management

• Research

• Medical and Surgical

• Patient Counselling

• Administration

• Staff Inductions and

Development

• Trauma / Wound

Management

• Palliative Care

• Nursing Audits

Equipment handled

• Manual and digital

BP machine

• Pulse oximetry

monitors

• Oxygen regulators

• Thermometer

• Glucometer

• Suction Machine

June 2007- May 2010

Hospital: Amani Healthcare Services

Department: Medical-surgical Ward

Position: Staff Nurse

Roles and Responsibilities

• Worked as a Shift Leader, managing the department, staff, patients, administration and work flow.

• Extended to triage and intermittent management of the department. Assessed and treated patients allocated to my care.

• Safely admitted, transferred and discharged patients as necessary.

• Responsible for initial assessments on admission and ongoing throughout their stay.

• Tasked for ongoing responsibility for the physical health, assessment of psychosocial needs, diets of patients

• Administered drugs and other therapies.

• Collaborated with healthcare providers and members to promote quality member outcomes, to optimize member benefits, and to promote effective use of resources.

• Managed care products, and steering members to appropriate providers, programs or community resources.

• Applied clinical knowledge to work with facilities and providers for care coordination.

• Worked with medical and surgical consultants in interpreting appropriateness of care and accurate claims payment

• Intestinal obstruction

• Herniorrhaphy

• Incision and drainage

• cholecystectomy

• Tonsillitis

• esophago-

gastroduodenoscopy.

• Fractures

• Diabetic foot

• Wound debridement and

grafting

• Urology- Circumcision

• Knee/shoulder replacements

• hip replacements

• Fixations and reduction

Cases handled

Education

Institution: Pwani university

Course: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Upgrading) Completion date: 2017

Referees

3 Mr Ralph Imanyara

Group Human Resources Manager

Alliance Hotel and Resort, DIANI

P. O. Box 90690- 80100, Mombasa

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

Dr. Nicky Mbuthia

Coordinator, BSCN- Upgrading Program

Department of Nursing Sciences

Pwani University, KILIFI

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

Email: ******.*******@*****.***

2. Mrs Selina Ambitho

Director, Nursing Services

The Mombasa Hospital, MOMBASA

P. O. Box 90294, Mombasa

Tel: +254 (020-*******/ 2312099

Institution: Kaloleni Primary School

Course: Kenya Certificate of Primary Education

Completion date:1994

• Appendicitis

• Heart attack

• Breast cancer

• Diabetes

• Dilatation and curettage

• Hemorrhoids

• Intestinal obstruction

• Inguinal hernia repair

• Tuberculosis

• COPDs

• Pneumonia

• Hypertension

• Cerebrovascular accident

Cases managed

• Patient monitors

• Suction Machine

• Defibrillator

• Glucometer

• Weighing scale

• Pulse oximeter

• oxygen machines

Equipment handled

Institution: Mama Ngina Girls High School

Course: Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Completion date:1998

Institution: Kenya Medical Training Institute, Mombasa Course: Diploma in Registered Community Health Nursing Completion date: 2006

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