ZAHRA JAMALUDDIN KANJI
ACTING PRINCIPAL/NURSING INSTRUCTOR
CAREER SUMMARY
** ***** ** ********** ** Nursing with practical
demonstration to students at bed-side. Enthusiastic and experienced nursing professional with proven
teaching expertise, highly motivated and eager to
support the team to success through hard work and
excellent organizational skills. Dedicated and
devoted to train new nurses in building up their
knowledge and critical thinking necessary to excel in today’s health care setting. Hardworking, passionate and ready to learn and grow through strategic
planning to excel in health care setting
C O N T A C T S
*****.**********@*****.***
110 Amynabad off Martin road,
Near P.I.B. Colony, Karachi
EDUCATION
Masters of Arts (English)
Karachi University
Bachelors of Science in
Nursing (BScN)
Aga Khan School of
Nursing and Midwifery
Intermediate (Pre-medical)
St.Lawrences Govt. Girls’
Degree College
Matriculate (Bio-science)
The Mama Parsi Girls’
Secondary School
June 2016-June 2018
Sept 2003- Aug 2007
2000-2002
1998-200
Professional Awards
• Appreciation letter by The Director Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Professor
Adib-ul-Hassan Rizvi on achieving 100% result
position in Sindh Nurses Examination, September
session 2019
Achievements
• Developed first handbook for School of Nursing,
SIUT for General Nursing Diploma Program and
Bachelors of Science in Nursing Program (copy
can be furnished upon request)
• Developed first prospectus for Bachelors of
Science in Nursing Program. (copy can be
furnished upon request).
• Recognition/accreditation of School of Nursing,
SIUT by the Regulatory body (Pakistan Nursing
Council).Planned and conduction Pakistan
Nursing Council (PNC) inspection on December
17, 2019. Inspection was successful, with one
requirement that is master’s degree holder
faculty, which is due to the fact that Pakistan is facing acute shortage of master’s degree holder
nurses
Presentations
• World Patient Safety Day Sept. 17, 2020
• Sindh Institute of Urology Dec. 17, 2019
and Transplantation (SIUT)
and facilities available
2014- Present Acting Principal/Nursing Instructor
2009- Present Nursing Instructor, School of Nursing, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SON-SIUT)
Outline: Lead and manage school of nursing along with support and guidance to the nursing faculty members.
Key Responsibilities as Acting Principal:
• Lead and manage School of Nursing, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
• Prepared entrance test paper for 1st Generic BSN batch of SIMS-SIUT in January 2023
• Served as Coordinator in Generic BSN entrance test held on January 29, 2023
• Prepared, planned, organized and conducted inspection by the nursing regulatory body that is Pakistan Nursing Council for the approval of Four (04) year Bachelors of Science in Nursing Program. Worked on following major areas mentioned in the annual return form as the inspection criteria set by Pakistan Nursing Council (PNC) o Admission record
o Clinical affiliation record
o Academic calendar
o Master plan
o Teaching program and strategies applied
o Allocated hours for each course
o Yearly clinical plan
o Weekly clinical hours of students
o Community field visits
o Pre and post clinical conferences
• Participated in making certificates and distribution of it on the platform in the second convocation held at SIUT in 2018.
• Involved in the management of nursing services with Nursing Superintendent from August 2017- August 2019. My major job responsibilities were:
• To make fixed assignment of Registered Nurses for critical care areas
• Clinical supervision on ward
• Keeping a check on the maintenance of patient’s confidential files
• Organized and conducted continuous education sessions
• Co-ordination with in charge professor about feedback of nursing staff
• Maintenance of attendance record and sending monthly attendance record to human resource department for monthly salary purpose.
• Developed job descriptions, and career ladders for Nephrology critical care nurses, Urology nurses, emergency nurses and health care assistants (HCA)
• Developed curriculum for continuous education sessions for nursing services
• Counsel underperforming students to help meet clinical objectives
• Maintenance of excellent attendance record in school of nursing
• Maintained quality education of nursing students to achieve 100% result in the Provincial Sindh Nurses Examination
• Prepare entrance test papers and involved in the selection process of General Nursing Diploma Program, Health Care Assistants and Trainee Technician.
• Initiated Trainee Technician Diploma Program in 2019 and developed their curriculum
• Trained approximately 400 Nursing Students including both General Nursing Diploma Program and Health Care Assistants and 60 trainee technicians.
• Involved in the distribution process of Trainee Technicians in their respective areas that is operation theatre, intensive care units inclusive of covid-19 Intensive care unit, dialysis, nuclear medicine, and radiology.
• Developed master plan, academic calendars, teachers’ performance appraisal forms, students’ theory and clinical evaluation forms
• Ensure implementation of the curriculum according to academic calendar
• Responsible for the performance appraisal of all faculty members
• Conduct monthly faculty meeting.
• Maintaining confidential record of both nursing faculty members and students
• Guide and support other nursing faculty members in their lectures and other teachings.
• Arrange continuing education sessions for other nursing faculty members
• Scheduling lectures of full time, part-time and visiting nursing faculty members
• Identify, schedule and correspond with the authorities for community field visits of General Nursing Students
• Maintain attendance record of the nursing faculty members and nursing students,
• Correspond with the human resource department for the monthly salary of visiting and part time faculty members and stipends respectively
• Chief organizer of World Kidney Day
• Conduct and lead volunteer program
• Involvement in the COVID -19-vaccination process at SIUT. Professional Membership
• Member of ‘The Aga Khan University Chapter’
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of
Nursing.
• Membership number: 2152664
Continuing Education Sessions
January 2018- till present
• Nursing handover
• Communication skills
• Head to Toe assessment in five minutes
• Fluid and electrolytes imbalance with
Nursing interventions
• Arterial Blood Gases interpretation (ABGs)
• Drug and dosage calculations
• Making infusions
• Maintaining crash cart and medication trolley
Continuing Education
• Breast Cancer Awareness Oct 30, 2021
• A conflict of values: Sept 17, 2021
Nurses ‘willingness to work
under threatening conditions
• Addressing vaccine Sept 14, 2021
misinformation in nursing
• Evidenced-Based Competency Sept 14, 2021
Training Program for Blood
Product Administration
• Basic Life Support July 14, 2021
• World Mental Health Day Oct 10, 2020
• Covid-19 Pandemic and its March 15, 2019
Preventive measures
• Functional Urology
Workshop Oct 30th-Nov.3rd 2017
• Developing Multiple Choice Oct 18, 2016
Questions
Total Professional
Working Hours
Clinical hours
28hours/week 112 hours/month
1,344 hours/year (excluding all Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays)
6,145 hours/5 years 15,977 hours/13 years
Theory hours
28hours/week 112 hours/month
1,344 hours/year (excluding all Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays)
6,145 hours/5 years 15,977 hours/13 years
Community Membership
• Member in publication stall 2022 till present
• Translated long article, named 2018-2020
“Kuwait before and after its invasion”
from Urdu to English as a volunteer
(copy can be given upon request)
• Translated couple of chapters from
community book from Urdu to English
as a volunteer (copy can be given
upon request)
• Involved as a voluntary member in 2017
the community data collection
for the organization of events
on Diamond Jubilee of His Highness 2016
• Health care volunteer for providing
first aid to the participants of the
Diamond Jubilee games organized
in Dubai.
General IELTS
General IELTS (AEO) April 17, 2021
Overall Bands 7.5
Listening 8 Reading 7
Writing 7 Speaking 7
2009- Present Nursing Instructor SON-SIUT (Classroom teaching + on the ward) Due to shortage of nursing faculty members, I am involved in both classroom and clinical teaching of nursing students enrolled in General Nursing Diploma Program and Health Care Assistants. Key Responsibilities as Nursing Instructor: (Classroom teaching)
• Major subjects of Teaching at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation.
• Fundamentals of Nursing 2. Adult health Nursing 3. Community Health Nursing 4. Health Assessment 5. Psychology 6. Sociology 7. Anatomy and Physiology 8. Drug Dosage Calculations in Pharmacology with basic concepts of mathematics.
• Prepare monthly lesson plan.
• Prepare presentations by taking references from various sources including books, online articles and research based articles
• Use various teaching learning methods to enhance learning of students. Some of my teaching strategies are as follows:
• Videos • Problem based learning • Interactive discussion and question and answers
• Tutorial • Graded Presentations and assignments (etc)
• Evaluate students by conducting class tests and exams
• Provide ongoing feedback to students regarding their classroom performance
• Maintaining school reference books cupboard
• Maintenance of skills lab
• Participated in the curriculum development and teaching of Specialist Renal Nursing program. (Program closed)
• Conduct lectures on Nursing procedures and techniques for Zainul Abeedin (ZA) School of Medical technology of SIUT
Key Responsibilities as Clinical Instructor at SIUT:
• Developed Clinical skill checklist (copy can be provided upon request)
• Practical demonstration of COVID-19 vaccinations.
• Facilitate effective student learning in the assigned clinical setting.
• Provide adequate guidance for students in the clinical setting related to professionalism, and practice
• Provide ongoing feedback and final feedback upon the completion of clinical objectives to nursing students
• Identify clinical areas for my students’ learning to meet their learning outcomes and clinical objectives.
• Conduct pre and post clinical conferences. Some of the activities included in the conferences are as follows:
o Case studies
o Nursing process activities
o Documentation skills
o Debriefing day’s experience (post conference)
• Teach, and demonstrate nursing procedures to students, some of which are as follows: o Head to assessment
o Vital signs
o Medication administration via all routes
o Catheterization (Foleys)
o Nasogastric tubes (insertion, removal and feeding) o Dressing (surgical site, and wound)
o Peripheral intravenous lines (insertion and removal) o Care of ostomies (colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy) etc.
• Ensuring safe practices of nursing students by signing off skills on ward
• Teach students to develop teaching plans in order to educate patients and their family members regarding their disease process and treatment
• Supervise nursing students in the provision of emotional and psychological support to the patients and their families on ward
Aug. 2007-Aug. 2008 Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical Unit Feb. 2009- Nov. 2009 Aga Khan University, Hospital Outline: During my employment period, medical surgical unit of Aga Khan University Hospital dealt in
• General surgery • Urology • Eyes, Nose and Throat (ENT) • Orthopedics • Cardiac surgery {Coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG)} • Medicine Key Responsibilities as a Registered Nurse:
• Correct identification of patient
• Performed head to toe assessment of the patient.
• Gave pre and post-operative care to the patients.
• Counselled and educate patients regarding surgical process.
• Conducted patient education on various topics. Some of them are as follows: o Insulin administration
o Care of catheters at home
o Care of drains
o Care of surgical site and signs of infection
o Diet
o Lifestyle modification
o Medications etc
• Used critical thinking skills to analyze the data in order to assess deterioration in patient’s condition
• Taking active intervention during cardiac arrest, performing Electrocardiogram (ECG) and the administration of emergency cardiac medication
• Document patient’s plan of care using nursing diagnosis, expected outcomes and select nursing interventions
• Document patient’s response to nursing interventions
• Maintain patient’s confidentiality
• Excellent reasoning, decision-making and critical thinking skills
• Taking charge of special assignments on the ward, for example narcotic cupboard and crash cart.