AKANA ALLORKPE
Accra
Summary
Compassionate Registered Nurse with over 5 years of experience delivering patient-centered care in medical and surgical settings. Skilled in adult care, emergency services, and home care for the elderly. Committed to promoting patient wellbeing through effective treatment and assessment. Collaborative team member with strong communication skills, fostering coordination among departments to ensure safe and efficient care.
Overview
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Language
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Certification
1
1
year of post-secondary education
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Nursing Officer
University of Ghana Medical Center
Accra
07.2026 - Current
- Supervised shift handovers, ensuring accurate communication of patient status, treatment plans, and pending tasks.
- Coordinated daily ward operations, assigning nursing staff and prioritizing patient care to enhance service delivery.
- Managed admissions, discharges, and transfers, maintaining smooth patient flow through unit.
- Mentored junior nurses, strengthening clinical procedures and communication skills to improve patient outcomes.
- Administering prescribed erythropoietin and iron therapy.
- Enforced infection prevention protocols, medication safety, and ward cleanliness across care areas.
- Escalated critical patient changes promptly, supporting timely physician review and intervention.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
- Coordinated discharge planning, collaborating with patients, families, and healthcare providers to ensure seamless transitions of care.
- Participated in quality improvement initiatives, helping to establish best practices that elevated department standards.
- Monitor for bleeding, pain, infection, urinary obstruction, bladder spasms, and other complications.
- Ensure proper post-operative observations and escalation of abnormalities.
- Coordinate care for patients following procedures such as TURP, open prostatectomy and other urological surgeries.
- Monitoring central venous dialysis catheters for signs of infection.
- Identifying and reporting excessive bleeding from vascular access sites.
- Monitored patients for muscle cramps to ensure comfort during treatment during dialysis
- Oversaw continuous bladder irrigation procedures for patient care (CBI).
- Provided emotional support to patients undergoing long-term dialysis to patients receiving long-term dialysis.
- Documenting pre-dialysis, intradialytic, and post-dialysis assessments.
- Assessing for dizziness, weakness, and post-dialysis hypotension.
- Participating in continuing professional development on renal nursing.
Nursing Officer
University of Ghana Medical Centre
01.2023 - 06.2026
- Monitor patients' vital signs such as blood pressure, temperature and sample taken and report any changes superior.
- Administration of various forms of medications.
- Monitored patients' vital signs, including blood pressure and temperature, and reported significant changes to healthcare team.
- Dusted and cleaned working surfaces to maintain a hygienic environment.
- Provided care for patients according to established care plans.
- Assisted with catheter insertion and removal to ensure patient comfort.
- Assist patients with daily activities including dressing, bathing and grooming.
- Help patients with mobility including transferring, positioning, and ambulating.
- Applied surgical and standard wound dressings to promote healing.
- Communicate with parents and their families to provide emotional support and information on the care plan.
- Ensuring own safety and the safety of colleagues, patients, and their families at the workplace.
- Provided emotional support and information to families regarding care plans to enhance patient well-being.
Rotating Nurse
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Collected patient samples and monitored vital signs including pulse, temperature, respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose.
- Nursing patients using patient care plans including assessment, nursing diagnosis, implementation, intervention, and evaluation.
- Administering oral, intravenous, and intramuscular medications to patients and monitoring responses for immediate intervention.
- Empathetic and compassionate to patients' needs and able to deal with people in various states of pain and trauma.
- Maintaining hygienic and safe ward environment for patients.
- Empathetic and compassionate to patient's needs and able to deal with people in various state of pain and trauma.
- Maintaining hygienic and a safe ward environment for patients.
- Educating patients and their families about the disease and its treatment.
- Ensuring patients and their families feel comfortable during challenging and stressful situation, promoting recovery and reducing compliance issues.
- Assisted with routine patient care tasks, including hygiene, nutrition, elimination, and monitoring fluid intake and output.
Education
No Degree - Mentorship Training
University of Ghana Medical Center
Accra 09.2025 - 09.2026
Rotational Nurse -
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
Bachelor of science - Nursing
Pentecost University
Sowoutom, GhanaSenior High School -
Ideal College
Skills
- Patient care
- Patient assessment
- Clinical judgment
- Medical technology expertise
- Ability to assume full responsibility of patient care
- Patient confidentiality
- Interpersonal communication
- Team leadership
- Ability to work independently
- Compassionate
- Empathetic
- Integrity
- Honesty
- Hardworking
Certification
- Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana (certificate awarded as Registered General Nurse)
- Pentecost University (bachelor's degree in nursing)
- Nurses and Midwives Managers Conference (UGMC)
- CanCAF Leadership Development Series I(CanCAF)
- Breast Self-Examination Training (UGMC)
- Mentorship Training (UGMC)
- Ghana National Service Scheme Certificate
- Florence Academy (First Aid Certificate)
Languages
English
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Nursing Officer
University of Ghana Medical Center
07.2026 - Current
No Degree - Mentorship Training
University of Ghana Medical Center
09.2025 - 09.2026
Nursing Officer
University of Ghana Medical Centre
01.2023 - 06.2026
Rotating Nurse
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
01.2020 - 12.2021
Rotational Nurse -
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
Bachelor of science - Nursing
Pentecost University
Senior High School -
Ideal College