Care Assistant Nurse
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
ANGELA RUVIMBO MUTASA
Contact 263*********,263*********
Highfield
Harare
Zimbabwe
**************@*****.***
PERSONAL PROFILE:
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 18 March 1983
Marital status: Married
I.D number: 18-080589 N 18
Nationality: Zimbabwean
Personal Attributes
Flexible and sensitive to demanding situation, well developed interpersonal skills, dedicated
professional theatre nurse
Academic Qualifications
GCSE Ordinary Level Mount Selinda High School
Duration 1997-2000
Passed 7 subjects English and Science
Professional Qualifications
Institution: Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals School of Nursing
Duration: 2006-2009
Diploma: General nursing
Institution: Sally Mugabe Hospital School of Nursing (Former Harare Hospital)
Duration: January 2012 – December 2012
Diploma: in operating theatre
WORK EXPERIENCE
Hospital: Sally Mugabe Hospital (former Harare Hospital)
Date of Commencement: 2009
Ten years of fully loaded professional theatre nursing experience majoring in paediatric
surgery, orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, jaws, urology, obstetric and gynaecologic
surgery, 3 years of general nursing in female surgical gynaecology and male medical wards
Current Position Held: Team leader / scrub nurse
Department: Main theatres
Duration: August 2022 to date
Responsibilities
• Cordinating of Team events
• Receiving of patients into theatre from surgical wards .
• Peri-operative care of patients i.e pre-intra and immediate post operative care patience
• Scrubbing and maintaining aseptic technique throughout the procedure.
• Assisting surgeons during the operation by handling of instruments,ligature,swabbling
away blood to create a bloodless operating field
• Preventing of medio-legal hazards in theatre (proper identification of patients,doing the
WHO Sergical Checklist with surgeons anaesthestists,and patients before patient is
anaesthetized
• Counting of instruments and swabs correctly
• Advocating for the patients
• Counselling of patientsand staff if need arises
• Ordering of Surgical Sundries and drugs
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Previous position held : sister in charge
Department. : Maternity theatreDuration : June 2020 - August
2022
• Supervision of staff
• Orientation of new nurses and doctors
• Ordering and maintenance of stocks of all surgical sundries and drugs.
• Care and maintenance all equipment
• Writing of monthly and quarterly reports
• Doing monthly statistics.
Maternity Theatres
May 2017 – May 2020
• Receiving of patients into theatre from ante-natal ward as elective cases, early labour,
Labour wards and admissions as emergency cases.
Peri operative care of patients i.e. pre, intra, and immediate post operative care of
patients.
• Scrubbing and maintaining aseptic technique throughout the procedure.
• Assisting surgeons during the operations by handing in of instruments, ligatures,
swabbing away blood to create a bloodless field.
• Preventing of medico- legal hards in theatre ( proper identification of patient '
procedure agreeing with both surgical, anaesthetic team and patient before patient is
anesthetized, not leaving patient un attended on the table, counting of instruments and
swabs in the cavity before closure . ) infection control
• Advocating for patients
• Counselling of patients, staff if need arises.
• Tutorial to students on secondment to the department.
• Performing of minor procedures i.e. suturing, incision and drainage of abscesses.
• Ordering of surgical sundries and drugs from the pharmacy
Assisting the anaesthetists during induction of anaesthesia
Scrub Nurse
June 2014 to May 2017
• Assisting in orthopaedic surgery for knail insertion, sine nail, k-wiring.
• Assisting in laparoscopic hernia repair, dyes for gynae patients.
• Assisting in open prostatectomies, j -sternt insertion.
Circulating
• Providing the surgical team with sundries during operations.
• Doing swab count with scrub nurse.
• Handling of specimens labelling them correctly verifying the nature of specimen with
surgeon.
• Entering patients in the theatre register.
• Cleaning the theatre after operations.
Recovery nurse
• Receiving patients from the theatre getting a detailed report from the anaesthetists.
• Ensuring that the patient is conscious not bleeding from the operation site.
Carrying out immediate procedures such as drugs and fluids including transfusion.
• Handing over patient to ward staff.
Paediatric theatre nurse
January 2013-2014
• Keeping the theatres warm for the paediatric patients.
• Receiving of patients and their parents and guardians into the receiving bay.
• Allaying anxiety to both patient’s parents and guardians.
• Assisting surgeons during operations.
• Ensuring that children are pain free by carrying out anaesthetic orders in the recovery.
• Assisting in laparoscopic surgery (for biliary atresia, pull through for patients with
imperforate anus, bilateral undescended testis)
• Assisting surgeons in closure of cleft lip n palates, laparotomy for trachea-
oesophageal fistula.
Senior nurse Main theatre
June 2010-Dec 2012
Scrub nurse
• Assisting in orthopaedic surgery for knail insertion, sine nail, k-wiring.
• Assisting in laparoscopic hernia repair, dyes for gynae patients.
• Assisting in open prostatectomies, j -sternt insertion.
Circulating
• Providing the surgical team with sundries during operations.
• Doing swab count with scrub nurse.
• Handling of specimens labelling them correctly verifying the nature of specimen with
surgeon.
• Entering patients in the theatre register.
• Cleaning the theatre after operations.
Recovery nurse
• Receiving patients from the theatre getting a detailed report from the anaesthetists.
• Ensuring that the patient is conscious not bleeding from the operation site.
Carrying out immediate procedures such as drugs and fluids including transfusion.
• Handing over patient to ward staff.
Casualty theatre
• Preforming day cases these are dilatation and curettage, suturing of lacerations,
application of plaster of Paris.
• Packing of packs for striation
References
Principal Tutor
Parirenyatwa School of Nursing
Box CY 198
Principal Tutor
Sally Mugabe Central Hospital
School of theatre nursing
Box ST 14
Southerton
Harare
Matron Theatres Harare
Hospital
Box ST 14
Southerton
Tel: 263-*-******/19
Sister in Charge
Paediatric Theatre
Sally Mugabe Central Hospital
Box ST 14
Southerton
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