Customer Care Student Nurse

JAMES MACHARIA

WANYIRI

Contact

Address: 130**-*****, Nairobi Kenya

Phone: +254*********

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

Additional Skills

• Performing and interpreting ECG and

ABGs.

• Use and teaching on how to use the

defibrillator.

• Use of computers and hospital

management systems.

• Excellent communication and

interpersonal skills.

• A team player.

• Good Planning and organizational skills.

• Ability to multitask and work under

pressure with minimal/no supervision.

• Basic life support training.

• Advance Cardiac Life Support.

• Phlebotomy

Achievements:

• KAIROS course held in Kijabe 2022

• Basic Life Support course held at Kijabe

hospital 2021.

• Certificate of completion in Advance

Cardiac Life Support course held at

Kijabe hospital 2021.

• Re-certificate of Basic Life Support

course held at The Nairobi Hospital

2016.

• Attended the Gastroenterology Society of

Kenya and Kenyatta National Hospital

Endoscopy Workshop and Scientific

Congress held at Kenyatta National

Hospital 2016.

• Attended the Gastroenterology Society of

Kenya and Kenyatta National Hospital

Endoscopy Workshop and Scientific

Congress held at Kenyatta National Hospital and Crown Plaza hotel on 1113 June 2015.

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

A highly motivated and detail-oriented nurse anesthetist, focused on providing timely quality anesthesia service, ensuring healthy outcomes, and upholding the highest standards of care with professional integrity and

confidentiality. This coupled with over eight years of experience, being a great team worker with strong

communications skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to establish and maintain good interpersonal relationships in a professional atmosphere. Enthusiastically seeking for an opportunity as a Nurse-Anesthetist, to collaborate with a competent perioperative team in ensuring holistic care to patients, as I enhance my professional expertise.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

MARCH 2021 TO 2022

KIJABE MISSION TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL

POSITION: STUDENT NURSE ANESTHETIST

Bed Capacity: 420 Beds

Department: Operating Theater

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of patient and manage the patient case.

• Perform pre-anesthetic screenings, including physical evaluations and patient interviews to obtain relevant medicalsurgical and anesthesia histories to predict anesthesia response, and documenting results.

• Performing and evaluating results of diagnostic tests such as radiographs (x-rays) and electrocardiograms (EKGs).

• Selecting, ordering, and administering pre-anesthetic medications.

• Developing anesthesia care plans.

• Getting supplies and equipment ready for procedures, studying and interpreting pre-surgical tests to determine how the anesthetic will affect the patient, and assuring that an adequate blood supply is on hand in case of an emergency

• Managing patients' airway or pulmonary status using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation

• Monitoring patients' responses, including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output, using invasive and noninvasive techniques. Select and prescribe post-anesthesia

administer post anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients' cardiovascular system.

• Certificate of completion in Advance

Cardiac Life Support course held at The

Nairobi Hospital on 8th to 11th

September 2014.

• Certificate of completion in Basic Life

Support course held at The Nairobi

Hospital on 22nd May to 23rd May 2014.

• Certificate of appreciation for active

service in the Nursing Students’ Welfare

Association as the Assistant

Accommodation & Catering

Representative for the year 2012/2013.

• Certificate of participation 7th Annual

Surgical Symposium “Recent advances in

surgery” held at The Nairobi Hospital on

21st September 2013.

• Certificate of participation 8th Nairobi

Hospital Annual Reproductive Health

Symposium “Recent advances in

Gynecological Oncology” held at The

Nairobi Hospital on 16th April 2013.

• Certificate of appreciation in inter-

collage sports competition held at The

Nairobi Hospital on 16th Feb 2013.

• Certificate of appreciation in inter-

collage sports competition held at The

Nairobi Hospital on 7th July 2012.

• Certificate of participation 1st Annual

Non-Communicable Disease Symposium

“Non-Communicable diseases: Where

Are We in Kenya” held at The Nairobi

Hospital on 21st July 2012.

• Certificate of participation 6th Annual

Surgical Symposium “Recent advances in

surgery oncology & trauma” held at The

Nairobi Hospital on 23rd June 2012.

• Certificate of participation 7th Nairobi

Hospital Annual Reproductive Health

Symposium “Infection in obstetrics and

Gynecology” held at The Nairobi

Hospital on 17th April 2012.

• Assessing suitability for discharge of patients from postanesthesia care units.

• Responding to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids and drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.

• Selecting, ordering, and administering anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids or blood products as necessary.

• Obtaining informed consent from patients for anesthesia procedures.

• Selecting, preparing, and using equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics.

• Calibrate, test, disassemble, and clean anesthesia equipment.

• Inserting arterial catheters or performing arterial punctures to obtain arterial blood samples Inserting peripheral or central intravenous catheters.

• Documenting care delivered and follow up care required.

• Requesting anesthesia equipment repairs, adjustments, or safety tests.

• Instructing other staff on topics such as anesthetic techniques, pain management and emergency responses.

• Reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in anesthesia, including attending and participating in a variety of audit meetings and CMEs

• Assisting with the managing of day-to-day activities and prioritization of anesthesia tasks.

CASES MANAGED:

• OBS/GYN: Caesarian sections +/- BTL, TAH/TVH/lap hysterectomy, Cervical cerclage, Marsupialization, Myomectomy, Salpingoopherectomy, Ovarian cystectomy, Vaginoplasty.

• GEN-SURG: laparoscopic surgeries, appendectomy,

epigastric/inguinal/hiatal/diaphragmatic herniorrhaphy, partial/total gastrectomy, BKA/AKA, STSG, debridement, OGD

+/-stenting, esophageal varices banding, biopsies, venous string, central line placement, chemo port insertion, radical mastectomy, mammoplasty, pneumonectomy, pulmonary

lobectomy, splenectomy

• ORTHOPEDICS: THA, TKR, femur/tibia fibula ORIF, patella tendon reconstruction, Achilles tendon reconstruction, foot surgeries, hip ORIF, cervical and lumbosacral spine surgerie e.g. PSIF, ACDF, shoulder arthroscopies, humerus and radioulnar ORIFS, hand surgeries

NEUROSURGERY: craniotomy, Bur hole, third ventriculostomy

+/- shunting, MMC repair, transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. UROLOGY: TURP, open prostatectomy, hypospadias repair, urethroplasty, resection of bladder tumor, nephrectomy, ureteric stenting

• PAEDIATRIC: PSARP, leveling biopsies for Hirschsprung disease, adenotonsillectomy, hypospadias repair, cleft lip/palate repair, open/lap orchidopexy, anal dilation, urethral meatoplasty.

ENT/HEAD AND NECK: FESS, adenotonsillectomy, rhinoplasty, partial/total laryngectomy, mandibulectomy and mandibular reconstruction, free flap, parotidectomy, tympanoplasty, carotid body tumor resections. APRIL 2014 TO FEBRAUARY 2021:

NAIROBI HOSPITAL

POSITION: NURSING

Responsibilities:

Deal with gastro intestinal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures by use of fiber optic and video scope.

Admitting, preparing and explaining to patients about procedures and what to expect.

Assist the doctors in procedures like:

Bronchoscopy

Peg insertion Band ligation

ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopantoghraphy) Diagnostic procedures

EUS (Endoscopic Ultra Sound)

Stock keeping and stock control.

Washing and sterilizing equipment’s used.

Preparing duty Rota for staff.

Customer care champion.

Fire Marshall Champion.

In charge of surgical items

EDUCATION BACKGOUND:

March 2021 – To 2022

KIJABE HOSPITAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Postgraduate Diploma (Kenya Registered Nurse Anesthetist) 2011 – 2013 CICELY MCDONNELL SCHOOL OF NURSING

Kenya Registered Nursing

2006 – 2009

NJIIRI’S HIGH SCHOOL

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

(B)

1997 – 2005

JOSNAH ACADEMY

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education

(381 marks)

REFEREES:

1. Mr. Dennis Obare,

P.O. BOX 300**-*****,

Cell number 072*******

Nairobi.

***********@*******.***

2. Dr. Gregory Sund,

Consultant Anesthesiologist-Cardiac Anesthesia,

Mobile: +254*********,

AIC Kijabe Hospital.

*******@*******.***

3. Dr. Matt Kynes,

Consultant Anesthesiologist-Pediatric Anesthesia,

Mobile: +254*********,

AIC Kijabe Hospital.

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