Michaela Vickers, Nurse Manager

Michaela Vickers

Nurse Manager

ProVita

Lieu
Qatar - Doha
Éducation
Master, Healthcare Ethics and Law
Expérience
17 years, 8 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 8 Mois

Nurse Manager à ProVita
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • août 2012 à juillet 2013
Assistant Director of Nursing à Burjeel Hospital
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • mars 2012 à juillet 2012

Responsibility for education & training, policy & practice, and operational responsibility for ambulatory care and ED.

Head of Nursing Policy and Practice Development à North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
  • Royaume Uni
  • mai 2004 à juillet 2010

• Develop and promote professional policy and practice initiatives.
• Contribute to the development of strategies for Clinical Governance, including UK accreditation with Healthcare Standards, CHI and CNST.
• Trust lead for the Essence of Care initiative, Non-medical prescribing, Vulnerable Adults and Mental Capacity Act.
• Responsible for the development, design and implementation of education and training in key areas.
• Participate in staff development, preceptorship, clinical supervision, recruitment and selection, leadership programmes and management of investigations.• Developed key indicators for assessing delivery of care across Trust.
• Design of department-specific review: incorporating assessment of leadership and management.
• Specialist nurse/midwife and nurse practitioner review of roles and job descriptions.
• Rolling programme of key training for multidisciplinary staff.
• Internal courses undertaken (2006-7): ECDL, vulnerable adults, risk assessment, record keeping, understanding project management, team building facilitator.
• Development of new nursing documentation.
• Established practice development groups to review clinical skills ie PEG, central lines, tracheostomy, male catheterisation.
• Improved governance system for non-medical prescribing.

Project Facilitator à North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
  • Royaume Uni
  • mai 2003 à mai 2004

12 month fixed contract.
• Organise and present training on the Essence of Care initiative throughout North Cumbria.
• Facilitate the implementation of Essence of Care within North Cumbria University Hospitals.
• Lead the Essence of Care Steering Group in the acute Trust.
• Feedback regional and national developments throughout North Cumbria.
• Ongoing practice development.• Improved awareness within the acute Trust of Essence of Care.
• Simplified process of the Essence of Care.
• Supplied practical support to the Essence of Care E-learning Strategy Group.
• Key organiser for the Essence of Care regional conference.

Professional Development Facilitator à North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Royaume Uni
  • août 2002 à mai 2003

• Project Management.
• Develop and provide clinical training packages.
• Audit of the Personal Development Plan process.
• Facilitate the development and management of Patient Group Directions.
• Develop and implement new policies.
• Developed Trust wide training packages.
• Produce a monthly Nursing Newsletter to facilitate communication within the Trust.
• Presentation at annual oncology workshop.
• Policy developed on Patient Group Directions.

Nurse Clinician à King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • octobre 1998 à octobre 2000

• Co-ordinator and trainer of monthly nursing induction programme for multi-national nursing staff.
• Facilitator and trainer of Basic Life Support practice and certification workshops.
• Actively involved in multi-disciplinary working and communications.
• Responsible for all communications from the Nursing Education
Department throughout the hospital.
• Provided on-going support for the oncology service education programme.
• Responsible for the establishment of, and management of, the Nursing
Education Department, Jeddah.
• Developed a multi-disciplinary orientation programme.
• Developed a Basic Oncology Lecture Series; IV Cannulation self-study
module; and revised a Conscious Sedation self-study module.

Registered Nurse à Cookridge Oncology Centre, Leeds, UK
  • Royaume Uni
  • août 1992 à octobre 1998

Registered nurse with over seven year’s clinical and practical experience in all areas of adult oncology. Developed expertise and management skills through varied positions and continued professional development. Proficient in the care of patients requiring chemotherapy, radiation therapy and palliative care. Active in the education process of oncology patients, their families, and staff members. Provided guidance and supervision to pre-registration students and to qualified nurses during their clinical assignment in oncology.

Éducation

Master, Healthcare Ethics and Law
  • à University of Manchester
  • mai 2001
Diplôme, Teaching and Assessing
  • à Leeds College of Health
  • juillet 1995
Diplôme, Adult Oncology
  • à Leeds College of Health
  • juin 1995
Diplôme, Registered General Nurse
  • à Leeds College of Health
  • septembre 1992

3 year Registered General Nursing course.

Specialties & Skills

Quality Management
Education & Training
Nursing Management
Leadership

Langues

Anglais
Expert
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