HAYLEY OCTOBER

• ·Provided care to patients presenting with a range of urgent care presentations, including minor medical paediatric and adult presentation illnesses, minor injury presentations requiring basic wound care, use of suturing, initial diagnosis/management of orthopaedic injuries
• Facilitated referral to specialists, initial interpretation of x-rays (and correlation with final radiologist report), initial interpretation of ECG’s and cardiology referral as needed
• Conducted a clinical audit on the referrals made to the Emergency Department, what the reasons were and whether or not it was clinically justified or likely to be been able to be managed alternatively.
• Stabilisation and transfer to the Emergency Department of medically unstable children and adults presenting to the clinic
• Ordered and executed tests, analyses and diagnostic images to guide diagnostics and treatment of different conditions.

• Liaised with families in assessing patient care needs.
• Assessed and prioritised patients based on urgency to handle large number of patients waiting for treatment.
• Communicated clearly in stressful situations with people from range of backgrounds.
• Explained treatments and patient status to relatives, demonstrating empathy, tact and discretion
• Managed, stabilized and treated patients with various medical and surgical emergencies
• Performed bed side procedures, imaging and interpretation of x-rays, ECG's and blood gasses

Worked in district level hospital managing the paediatric, adult and obstetric wards.

Responsibilities included over-time in the emergency room managing various medical and surgical emergencies as well as admitted them into the wards or stabilising them for transfer

Worked alongside colleges doing emergency and elective C-sections where my responsibility would be to do the anaesthetics for these cases

Running the various clinics in the area seeing patients with chronic diseases both communicable and non-communicable

4 to 6 monthly rotations in the departments of internal medicine, paediatrics, anaesthetics, general surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology and family medicine.

Overtime done in the Emergency Department and being the on-call within in each department.