Patient Care Health Education
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YENGIWE NDLOVU
CONTACT NUMBER
*****.*.******@*****.***
CONTACT ADDRESS
Empumalanga Township
Hwange
SKILLS SET
Ability to manage time
and prioritize workload to
ensure efficient delivery
of all aspects of tasks.
Highly organised and
efficient
Excellent communication
skills, both written and
verbal
Polite and professional
manner.
A team worker
Proven leadership skills
Industrious and take
initiative
Interested in quality
improvement
AFFILLIATIONS
• Nurses Council of
Zimbabwe from
December 2001 to date
• Health Profession
Council of Namibia From
December 2015 to date
FIELD OF
INTEREST
REGISTERED
NURSING/MIDWIFE
Objectives and Personal Attributes
Reliable nursing professional with skills in communication, problem- solving, and negotiation. Puts in 100% effort when performing nursing duties and interacts cordially with staff and patients. I am a dedicated, patient oriented registered nurse and midwife who practices within nursing scope. I strive to update my knowledge regularly so that I am aware of evidence based best practice guidelines and give patients the best possible care with available resources
Academic Info
O’ LEVEL CERTIFICATE PASS
Lukosi Government Secondary School 1997
Subjects Passed:
English B
Mathematics C
Integrated Science B
Ndebele A
Commerce B
Fashion and Fabrics B
Hwange Colliery School of Nursing
Diploma in General Nursing September 1998 – November 2001 St Lukes School of Midwifery
Diploma in General Midwifery: May 2004
Control Authority of Zimbabwe
Certificate in Drug Handling: December 2013
Rapid HIV Testing
Certificate in Rapid HIV Testing: November 2014
IN – SERVICE TRAININGS
Prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT)
Management of malaria
Management of tuberculosis
Infection control
Basic supervising skills
Cervical cancer screening
Waste segregation
Management of blood transfusion
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Hwange Colliery Private Hospital
Designation: General Nurse December 2001 - March 2002 Worked in female surgical, gynaecological and medical ward Bed state – 50
Duties: General nursing care, Ward management, Appropriate documentation and handing over, Liaising with other health professional involved in patient care, Supervision of junior staff and general hands
(cleaners),Caring for patients suffering from acute and long-term illness and diseases, Administering drugs, medication, and injection to patients, Treating patients with respect, and dignity and giving attention to individual needs and wishes, Prioritizing workloads and allocating patients appropriately, Maintaining high clinical standards of high-level quality care delivery, Providing emotional support and re-assurance to patient and relatives
Binga District Government Hospital
Designation: General Nurse/Midwife March 2002 - October 2007 Worked in female surgical, gynaecological and medical ward Bed state – 50
Duties: Doctors’ rounds, Carrying out Doctors’ orders, Give treatment to in patients, Wound care, Nursing patients with gynaecological, medical and surgical conditions, Writing monthly reports, Giving health education on individual patients on their conditions and treatment, Liaising with other health care deliveries on special patient care, Supervising subordinates, Ordering sundries for use in the ward, Ordering diets for individual patients with specific conditions, Handing over and taking over of patient care
Male ward (medical and surgical ward) -Bed state – 40 Duties: Doctors’ rounds, Carrying out Doctors’ orders, Give treatment to in patients, Wound care, Nursing patients with medical conditions, Nursing patients with surgical conditions, Writing monthly reports, Giving health education on individual patients on their conditions and treatment, Liaising with other health care deliveries on special patient care, Supervising subordinates, Ordering sundries for use in the ward, Ordering diets for individual patients with specific conditions, Handing over and taking over of patient care
Maternity ward (ANC, PNC, neonatal and Labour ward) -Bed state – 40 Duties: Conducting deliveries, Resuscitating of babies with need, Health education on pregnancy, labour, delivery and care of the baby, Giving prophylaxis of malaria and anaemia in pregnancy, Conducting acute natal care and post-natal care, Giving vaccines to the newly born, Giving anti-retroviral therapy to mother and babies as per protocol, Hand over and take-over of patient care, Doctors rounds, Carrying out Doctors’ orders, Writing monthly reports, Monitoring fete-maternal observation in ANC and labour, Monitoring labour progress, Teaching mothers on care of premature babies, on kangaroo care and importance of good hygiene, Teaching mothers on expressing breast milk when there is need Outpatient department
Duties: Identifying patients who need urgent care, Screening patients for doctors, Consulting patients with various conditions, giving health education to all in a group and as per individual need, writing monthly reports, maintaining register of communicable diseases and reporting accordingly to the epidemiology department.
Hwange Colliery Private Clinics
Designation: Sister in charge
November 2007 - December 2014
Duties: Consulting patients with various conditions, Referring for further management to the hospital if patient cannot be managed by the clinic, Giving health education to all in a group and as per individual need, Immunization of children below 5 years, Growth monitoring of child under 5 years of age, Conducting antenatal care and post-natal care, Conducting deliveries, Maintaining registers and reporting to supervisor monthly and annually, Maintaining cold chain of vaccines, Keep drugs for use in a temperature controlled room (pharmacy), Supervising, Mentoring student nurses, Plotting graphs on vaccine usage, Handing over and taking over care of patients
Hwange Colliery Private Hospital
Cervical cancer screening clinic
January 2015 - July 2015
Designation: General nurse/Midwife/Viac nurse
Duties: Education on causes, predispose factors, who is at risk and the dos and don’ts in cervical cancer, Visual inspection of the cervix with aseptic acid and cervicography (VIAC), Giving results to clients and interpreting findings, Giving room for client to ask questions and answer effectively, Referring clients for cone biopsy, Conducting cryotherapy in clients with suspected cancer lesions, Offering HIV test and doing HIV tests on clients who opts in, Giving review dates to clients, Recording, Capturing pictures of cervices and reporting on monthly meetings on findings and management given to clients, Maintaining aseptic technique in candidly the procedure, Cleaning instruments and sending for autoclaving
Katima Mulilo State Hospital
July 2015 to September 2017
Designation: Sister in charge
Female ward
Duties: Doctors rounds, Carrying out Doctors’ orders, Give treatment to in patients, Wound care, Nursing patients gynaecological conditions, Nursing patients with medical conditions, Nursing patients with surgical conditions, Writing monthly reports, Giving health education on individual patients on their conditions and treatment, Liaising with other health care deliveries on special patient care, Supervising subordinates, Ordering sundries for use in the ward, Ordering diets for individual patients with specific conditions, Handing over and taking over of patient care
Outpatient department
Duties: Identifying patients who need urgent care, Screening patients for doctors, Consulting patients with various conditions, giving health education to all in a group and as per individual need, writing monthly reports, maintaining register of communicable diseases and reporting accordingly to the epidemiology department
ST. PATRICK'S MISSION HOSPITAL
May 2018 to December 2021
Designation: Sister in charge
MATERNITY WARD
Duties: Admit maternity patients and do doctors rounds as well as feto maternal observations. Prepare patients for caesarian sections. Do post operative observations. Nurse preterm babies and conduct deliveries. Resuscitate neonates, check emergency equipment, give health education to clients and patients and discharge patients. FAMILY AND CHILD HEALTH
Duties: Book antenatal mothers, do Antenatal care, give health education, treat minor disorders of pregnancy, do Postnatal care, vaccinate babies, do Dry blood spot testing for exposed infants., give antiretroviral viral treatment where applicable, Treatment under 5 children and refer to the doctor patients that need the doctor Katima Mulilo State Hospital
December 2021 to date
Designation: Sister in charge
FEMALE WARD
Duties: Doctors rounds, Carrying out Doctors’ orders, Give treatment to in patients, Wound care, Nursing patients gynaecological conditions, Nursing patients with medical conditions, Nursing patients with surgical conditions, Writing monthly reports, Giving health education on individual patients on their conditions and treatment, Liaising with other health care deliveries on special patient care, Supervising subordinates, Ordering sundries for use in the ward, Ordering diets for individual patients with specific conditions, Handing over and taking over of patient care
Worked in CASUALTY, consultation, treating emergencies, conducting CPR, suturing and nebulisation
Declaration
I hereby declare that the above furnished information is authentic to the best of my knowledge.
Date: 08 June 2023,
Place: Hwange, Zimbabwe.
Signature,
(Yengiwe Ndlovu)
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