Knowing, promoting, implementing and following up the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control, security rules and other protocols and procedures in the medical premises and ensuring high standards of hygiene of his/her working environment.
• Organizing and carrying out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions.
• Filling in patients’ files, forms, consumptions, and statistics report properly and submitting to direct supervisor regularly for review and record keeping. . Filling in all necessary registers and health files, participate in data collection and keep doctors/supervisor informed.
• Performing any other tasks as requested by Medical activity manager / Medical Referent.
• Oversees and coordinates the CL activities and quality of patient care ensuring the correct implementation and execution of the CL protocol and relevant MSF guidelines and procedure among the three clinics and all CL staff.
• Ensures that the quality of the CL nursing care is guaranteed at all times, of e.g. intramuscular and intralesional injections techniques and dressing according MSF protocols and guidelines
• Ensures the triaging of patients is done appropriately according to the admission criteria
• Ensures good quality and up to standard nursing procedures with anitispetic techniques in regards to dressing
• Ensures the flow of the patients and correct timing of sending the patients for specimen collection to the laboratory, and follow up results
• Check patient charts on proper recording and documentation and discusses abnormalities observed/detected with concerned staff members.
• Ensures correct calculation of the dosages and safe administration of oral, intramuscular and intralesional antimonial treatment
• Organization and Planning
• Ensures correct and timely reporting (weekly and monthly delivery of statistic), and handed over to the data encoder.
• Tracks and checks the daily and weekly consumption of medicines and medical material and other consumable. Supports and initial the monthly physical stock count and if needed and theoretical stock
• Ensures that timely monthly orders and internal requests are made based on consumption and physical stock, and handed over to the MSO.
• Reports any discrepancies between the requested and delivered items.
• Complies with and supervises other nursing staff and health educators to ensure integrated CL health education and support within all activities including hygiene, sanitation and mental health care, to patients and their families
• Complies with and supervises other nursing staff to ensure clean and safe environment (in line with MSF OCA IPC and Health Care Waste Management for patients and staff in collaboration with the Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WHS/WATSAN/WASH/IPC responsible) department
• Ensures disinfection and sterilization procedures are carried out appropriately
• Assists in identifying staffing/ training needs. Assists in organizing, maintaining or supervising appropriate training programmes.
Administered critical IV medications such as Cardizem, Dopamine, Insulin, Nitroglycerin, and Adenosine
Assisted in the care of multiple traumas, cardiac arrests, stroke codes, sexual assaults and conscious sedations
Provided care to people across the lifespan with different conditions from infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly
Independently maintained safe and effective care to patients with different acuity levels in a time-restricted and demanding environment
Constantly communicated and collaborated with physicians and other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal care was given to patients in a timely manner.
Serves as a full time charge nurse alternating with bedside nursing
Assign patient care and coordinating staffing needs.
Expedite patient care by efficiently organizing interdepartmental and ancillary staff.
Provide nursing care to a wide spectrum of clientele including general medicine, cardiac, psychiatric, and pediatric patients.
Coordinate inter-hospital admissions and transfer from the Emergency Department.
• Can provide the best emergency nursing care in a limited time with limited staff
• Can operate equipments electronic and non electronic
• Can perform cardio pulmonary resuscitation
• Can categorize the patients according to the situation
• Can follow the doctor orders with full confidence
• Can assist and perform medical /surgical procedures
• Expert in documentation and demonstration
• Can perform initial assessment of patients, particularly those in the resuscitation room under guidance of the nurse supervisor and ER doctor or secondary assessment for ambulance setting
• Administer medications and other necessary treatment in accordance with instructions of ER doctor and document all treatment given
• Perform necessary procedures (e.g. IV cannulation, NGT insertion, urinary catheterization) in accordance with skill and experience
• Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
• Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce.
• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services.
• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
• Coordination in making linkages between the communities and line departments.
• Reporting to the project coordinator and higher management on weekly fortnightly and monthly Basis.
• Preparation of Monthly Progress Reports in line with the prescribed requirements of the Operations Department.
I provided duties in surgical ward and Intensive Care Unit . Provided safe and effective administering of medication to clients according to hospital policies and nursing care standards. Attended patients round with multi disciplinary team. Doing Practiced safe IV therapy and monitor patient responses. Made staff assignment of next coming shift and guided new staff in provision of safe nursing care. Provision of holistic care to the patients on ventilator. Demonstrated knowledge and skills in blood, blood products administration. I also collaborated with other department to facilitate patient care and assisted Head Nurse in indent and Expense, ward reports and duty rosters. I also assisted Surgeons in different procedures including CVP insertion, Arterial line, wounds dressings . NG tube insertion, Catheterization, nursing documentation, preparation and administration of infusions like Dopamine, Adrenaline, and Isoket etc were include in my basic responsibilities.
I was assigned as Critical Care Nurse and provide holistic care to the critically ill patients. I provided complete care to the clients who were on ventilators and participated actively in patients and family education. I was involved in monitoring of infection control in the unit and demonstrated knowledge and skills in blood, blood product s administration. Medication, IV cannulation, NG tube insertion, Catheterization, Nursing documentation, doing ECG.