registered staff nurse
Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital
Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months
Provides general nursing care in out-patient and emergency cases. Does inventory of supplies and medications, keep track of patient’s files such as registration, scheduling of treatment and follow-up, uses E-Clinic system and encodes statistics monthly to DHA. Services offered are general medicine, orthopedics, cardilogy, aesthetics and dental.
Transplant Coordinator
• Provides advanced nursing care for patients before and after solid organ transplantation.
• Assess post- transplant organ function and general health status and collaboratively determines need for additional assessment or intervention.
• Maintains donor and recipient donation/ transplant record with current data to facilitate communication and monitor condition.
• Educates donors and recipient along the continuum to assist understanding of processes and procedures surrounding organ donation and pre/ post- transplant issues.
• Provides education and consultation about transplantation and organ donations.
• Interprets research and published data to nursing staff and colleagues concerning current issues in organ donation and transplantation including those of clinical, legal, ethical and economic nature.
• Serves as a consultant to nurses and other health care professionals regarding the care of the organ donor and transplant patient.
• Serves as a community consultation resource through media, telephone and transplant internet links for information about transplantation and organ donation.
• Demonstrates responsibility for professional practice through active participation in professional organizations and specialty organizations, and active participation in departmental meetings/ educational opportunities.
Also acts as an operating room nurse:
• Responsible for the performance of the activities such as preoperative, inoperative and
postoperative.
• Worked closely with the surgical patients, families and other health care professional.
• Select and passes the equipments and supplies utilized for the operation.
• Managed and maintained operating room and nursing care.
• Maintained a comfortable and safe environment for the patient.
CASES HANDLED:
• Liver Transplantation
• Kidney Transplantation
• Donor Nephrectomy
• Cadaver Harvesting
Assigned in a medical-surgical unit at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, specializations include: transplant unit, urology unit, nephro cases, medicine cases and pedia cases as well (August 2008-September 2010)
STAFF NURSE (Medical Surgical)
(August 2008-September 2010)
• Implement patient care for up to 25 patients per section.
• Scheduled patient admissions and discharges.
• Assess patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes.
• Interact with departments regarding patient care.
• Educate patients/families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
• Provide assistance to Nursing Manager in the supervision of staff nurses.
• Evaluate staffing requirements including floor assignments.
• Maintained patient charts and confidential files.
Able to handle medical management in:
- Kidney Transplantation
- Blood Disorders (e.g. leukemia, hemophilia, etc)
- Renal Diseases both in adult and pediatrics
- General Medicine (DM, PTB, SLE and like)
- Oncology
Equipments Used:
Sphygmomanometer, thermometer, weighing scale, suction machine, infusion pump, glucometer, cardiac monitors, surgical instruments and sutures, syringe pump, nebulizer,
pulse oximeter, mechanical ventilators.