Staff Nurse
DAVITA
Total years of experience :11 years, 3 Months
Primes dialyzer and bloodlines
Records patients’ medical information and vital signs
Readies dialysis equipment
Oversees the dialysis treatment from start to finish
Cannulates accesses
Demonstrates the ability to remove femoral shealths & administer medications, including thrombolytics
Cleans and dresses permanent and temporary catheters
Monitors patient and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records information
Identifies irregular dialysis reactions and notifies appropriate medical team members
Secures blood works
Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication, if needed
Maintains medical inventory
Provides pre- and post procedure care to patients within the Hemodialysis Unit
Performs other position-related duties as assigned, depending on assignment setting
August 15, 2013
Renal Replacement Therapy
responsible in monthly supplies inventory
teaches novice Hemodialysis Nurses about procedure and hospital protocols
manages patients’s weekly schedule
ensures that dialysis equipment is working properly.
consults with doctors regarding a patient's overall treatment plan and alerts
doctors to any changes in a patient's condition, e.g. patient’s monthly laboratory results.
Provided comprehensive nursing care to all in patients.
Carry out all doctor’s orders in a timely and efficient manner.
Takes and monitors patient’s vital signs including blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and neuro vital signs and reports any abnormal changes to the physician.
Relays all laboratory results to the physician.
Prepares and administers medication orally, intramuscularly, intravenously and subcutaneously.
Emergency Room Nurse
Provided emergency medical care to critically ill patients.
Ensured the provision of quality emergency medical care to patients requiring emergency treatment in accordance with physician orders, hospital policy and standard nursing practice.
Evaluated episodic or acute responses to broad classifications of physical or psychosocial issues.
Managed the planning and implementation of interventions.
Coordinated patient referrals and discharge planning activities.
Delivery Room Nurse
Prepared patient for child delivery.
Monitored the duration, strength and interval between contractions.
Assisted with child delivery, cord cutting, expulsion of placenta etc.
Provided new born care to baby including, APGAR scoring, credes prophylaxis, administration of Vitamin K IM aseptically, Hepa B vaccination, etc.
Checked and monitored vital signs of mother and new born.
Operating Room Nurse
Acted as a circulating nurse that prepares all OR instruments needed in a certain procedure including, special instruments, suction machine, pulse oxymeter, bone saw, cautery machine, etc.
Provided skin preparation, insertion of foley catheter, naso gastric tube, mouth guard, etc.
Assisted the surgeon and all the operating team in gowning, wearing of gloves, eye shields and masks.
Monitors and records patient vital signs.
Acted as scrub nurse and assisted the surgeon on different types of procedure including, Appendectomy, Ceasarian section, Explore Laparotomy, THABISO, amputations, etc.
Assisted the surgeon on suturing of excision.
August 16, 2013
11th Postgraduate Course: Nephrology Past, Present, and Future
2013