Staff Nurse with over 26 years of extensive experience across Ireland, the Middle east, and India in diverse healthcare settings, including Medical Surgical, Labour & Delivery, NICU, and Critical Care. Demonstrates clinical supervision and healthcare management skills, ensuring patient safety and high-quality care. Committed to fostering team collaboration and continuous professional development, aiming to enhance patient outcomes through effective communication and leadership.
• Responsible for supervision and implementation of efficient nursing care of patients.
• Ensures filling of nursing documents as per protocols.
• Ensures patient safety at all times from admission till discharge.
• Communicates with patients, relatives and staff in an open effective and helpful manner.
• Identifies and escalates any life threatening issues, associated procedures, protocol and policy guidelines.
• Able to identify potential falls, pressure ulcers and act accordingly.
• Maintain confidentiality and the right to privacy.
• Contributes fully to individual team performance and strives for new knowledge and skills.
• Overall clinical supervision and management of patient care activities.
• Co-ordination and supervision of subordinates and other health care providers.
• Day to day evaluation and management of different activities of the department.
• Monitoring the outcome of treatment rendered to patients.
• Accompany the Doctor's round and make sure that the fresh orders are carried out promptly.
• Checking the equipments and machines for good working conditions.
• Maintaining safe and therapeutic atmosphere.
• Check and keep adequate supplies for daily routines.
• Maintain reports and records.
• Monitoring fetal heart beat, length and strength of contractions during labour.
• Assisting with any complications and administering medications during birth.
• Using equipments related to labour and the care of new born.
• Meeting with expectant mothers for prenatal visits and providing care of normal and problematic pregnancies.
• Educating mother and her family about labour delivery process and new born care.
• Maintaining adequate medical records.
• Communicating with other members of health care team to ensure coordinated care of mother and baby.
• Monitor the vital signs of the mother and the heart rate of the baby.
• Monitor for potentially dangerous complications of medications commonly given during labour and delivery.
• Communicate with the doctor to provide timely and accurate information.
• Providing emotional support and encourage verbalization of feelings to reduce anxiety.
• Providing antepartum and postpartum care for mothers.
• Adhere to patient safety policies.
• Overall care delivery process.
• Participating in quality improvement initiatives to improve the.
• Provided critical care support, including intubation and CPR.
• Monitored hemodynamic status tailored to patient conditions.
• Executed medical procedures: ECG, venipuncture, cardiac monitoring.
• Managed vital signs, medication administration, and phlebotomy.
• Administered IV fluids, blood, and blood products following physician directives.
• Ensured patient comfort and upheld strict confidentiality standards.
• Conducted personal hygiene care, promoting patient cleanliness.
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Patients with medical and surgical conditions, various cardiac and respiratory illnesses, and bedbound individuals. Elderly patients with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, and confusion. Normal and complicated deliveries, antenatal and postnatal care, as well as care of sick, well, and preterm babies.