Ralph Raven Rapi

Staff Nurse (Emergency Room) at Sta Ana Hospital

• Philippines
• My current job since February 2013

Job Description:
• File patients’ records, medical history, prescription and orders
• Keep inventory for medicine and medical equipments
• Interview patient about medical history
• Monitor and report symptoms and changes of patients’ conditions
• Write patient care plans
• Carry out medical treatment under doctors supervision
• Administer vaccines, injection, fluid therapy and first aid to patients
• Perform all nursing procedures like IV, NGT, IFC insertion, NGT feeding, gastric lavage etc.
• Assist doctors during their rounds and on every specific bedside procedure
• Monitor patient vital sign and health condition
• Maintain sterile environment in hospital and emergency rooms
• Respect hospital policies and rules
• Make ethical decisions based upon consent and confidentiality
• Orient and coordinate with new nurses
• Do health teaching to patient and their relatives
• Establish interpersonal relationship with patients

3 years of in depth service in providing emergency response treatment to different clients (pediatrics, surgical and medical) in any kind of emergency scenario. Provide assessment, planning, implementing, evaluation and documentation of nursing care for patient experiencing life threatening problems that requires complex assessment and immediate interventions in a 300 bed capacity hospital. Good understanding in interpreting clinical data’s like vital sign, laboratory results, and physician’s orders. Provide advance cardiac life support to client’s with life threatening situation. Collaborate well with all the members of the ER department team including doctors, co-nurses, pharmacist, social service workers and other health care providers. Excellent in administration of medicines (Intravenous, Subcutaneous or Intramuscular). Supervise and guide newly nurses in the area in performing nursing interventions.
 Key Highlight:
 Highly skilled and stellar records of client health care provision
 Dynamic and flexible enough to meet institutional needs