GURLEEN KAUR, CANADIAN RN, Indian RN

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Qualifications Profile

Dedicated and patient-focused Registered Nurse with proven strengths in acute patient care, staff development, and family advocacy.

Exceptional capacity to multi-task: manage numerous, often competing priorities with ease and foster the provision of superior patient care.

Administrative and referral experience including admissions, assessment, treatment, referral, and education for a wide range of patients.

Widely recognized as an excellent care provider and patient advocate.

Demonstrated ability to forge, lead, and motivate outstanding healthcare teams that provide top-quality patient care.

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; superior accuracy in patient history, charting, and other documentation.

Licensure: Registered Nurse (RN), India, Canadian registered nurse.

Certifications and Proficiencies

Certifications: Nursing Leadership and Management; Basic life support; food handler, Dementia and palliative care certificate, CPR Level C certificate with First Aid, GPA Canadian Continuing care assistant, EPIC and PCC

Professional Experience

Trillium health partners, Mississauga hospital 8 Aug-2022-4 Aug2023

CRT, RN (medicine unit, surgery unit, cardio unit, surgical spine unit, ortho unit, neuro unit, Emergency department holding Unit, stroke unit, Auditorium and GYM unit (CN), Senior care, palliative care unit, mental health unit, CCC, RCC)

Job responsibilities:

Performing Safe nursing practice in all aspects of the nursing process: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care as per CNO standards

Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon patients' clinical status

Evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine emergency intervention need

Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.

Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods

Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.

Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices

Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.

Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.

Assess patients' pain levels and sedation requirement.

Assess patients' psychosocial status and needs including areas such as sleep patterns, anxiety, grief, anger, and support systems

Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessment data

Collect specimens for laboratory tests.

Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests.

Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions

Identify patients who are at risk of complications due to nutritional status.

Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients based on assessment data and identified needs.

Assess family adaptation levels and coping skills to determine whether intervention is needed.

Participate in professional organizations and continuing education to improve practice knowledge and skills.

Participate in the development, review, and evaluation of nursing practice protocols

. Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, interdisciplinary health care team members, and community members.

Providing care in a compassionate and caring manner within a diverse cultural environment

Practicing according to the infection control and prevention measures

Sunnybrook health sciences centre June 2022 -July2022

(Medical -surgical unit)

Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care plans in consultation with healthcare professionals.

Evaluating medical information, as well as providing direct and individualized bedside nursing care to pre-and post-surgery patients.

Preparing, administering and recording prescribed medications.

Changing dressings, inserting catheters, and starting IVs.

Adjusting specialized medical equipment as needed, as well as interpreting and recording measurements.

Monitoring patients' vitals and reporting adverse reactions to medications in a timely manner.

Collaborating on discharge planning with the healthcare team.

Answering questions and educating patients and their families on surgical procedures and post-surgery care.

Maintaining and updating patient files, medical charts, and health records.

Adhering to best nursing practices, standards, and protocols.

Orison hospital, INDIA ( Jan 2022- April2022)

(Emergency, ICU and med surg dept)

Carrying out all nursing job responsibilities within scope of practice as per PNRC standards

Providing, patient-centred care to ensure patient safety and physiological and psychological well-being

Responding to emergency situations by recognizing changes in patient's health status and consulting appropriately when necessary, using transfer of accountability principles

Providing health teaching to patients and families including thorough discharge instructions to ensure the continuity of care in the community

Sunny brook hospital, Student nurse, LTSW, Toronto September 2020-Dec 2020

Provided patient care, consistent with medical plan of care, for one to three patients. Patient care encompasses the following:

Physical assessment, including but not limited to, listening to heart, lung, and bowel sounds with a stethoscope, checking incisions, and observing other factors, depending on individual patient.

Receiving and giving verbal reports on each patient at start/end of each clinical experience.

Preparing, distributing and administering medications prescribed by physicians.

Charting, either handwritten or via data entered into computer.

Dressing and feeding patients.

Providing individual patient education, in accordance with accepted nursing practice and medical plan of care.

Utilized therapeutic communication techniques in order to facilitate the patient’s optimum level of wellness.

Interacting with clinical instructor regarding patient’s conditions.

Provided emotional support and patient education to patients and families.

Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served on assigned units; knows and applies principles of growth and development over the life span when providing nursing care.

Assessing and interpreting age-related patient data and identifies age-specific nursing care requirements for assigned patients.

MED-SURG as well as ICU Registered Nurse (refresher experience)

IVY hospital, India

Dec 2018- February 2019

Behgal hospital, India (MED-SURG RN, full time staff) Sept 2014-july2015

Responsibilities:

Refine critical thinking, problem solving, organization and acute care skills to work effectively with critically ill patients.

Further enhance communication and therapeutic relationships with family members

Read and interpret cardiac monitor and lab results.

Assist physician and carrying out various nursing procedures such as NG tube insertion, suctioning, IV infusions, administration of blood products and initiation of emergency resuscitative measures.

Documenting the Assessment, plans, implements and evaluates nursing service provided to patients

Reports patient condition to appropriate personnel during each shift.

OTHER professional experience:

Shoreham village NS, long term care home: PSW Aug2015-SEP 2018

Sunrise of Oakville, ONT: med care manager as well as care manager April2020-March 2021

Educational Background

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, BSN (2011)

MAHATMA HANS RAJ D.A.V college of nursing JALANDHAR – India

Nursing Leadership and Management, NLM (2012-2013)

SENECA COLLEGE, Markham, Ontario

General Arts and Science, GAS Program (2013-2014)

Niagara College, Well and campus, Ontario

Continuing care assistant, Nova Scotia

GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE

Academic pathway for international educated nurses

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