Charlotte Addo

• Scheduling of clients for fistulas, dialysis, and specialist consultation
• Educating clients, family, and caregivers about their medical condition and its management plan
• Explaining the pre-and post-Fistula care to new clients/patients and ensuring they are prepared and consented for the surgeries/dialysis treatment
• Scrub and assist during fistula procedure
• Developing and building rapport with clients, being highly tolerant and compassionate towards their personalized needs, and encouraging them to ask questions
• Setting up all the necessary equipment and ensuring safety protocols are observed and adhered to concurrently during and after surgical procedures
• Monitoring and recording patients’ vital signs to assess medical conditions during admission until discharge
• Overseeing and managing multiple clients during dialysis treatment from start to finish, taking samples, and labeling
• Ensuring clients are given prescribed medications and report accurately on clients' reactions to the dialysis treatments and medications
• Monitoring and reviewing client laboratory reports, home medications, and other related activities, and notifying the Medical Doctor about changes in the client's condition
• Supporting the entire medical team in delivering quality care in a considerate and respectful manner
• Assisting the Superior/Designate to provide regular orientation, coaching, mentoring, and training of medical team members to meet the expected standards of the facility
• Liaising professionally and effectively communicating (both verbally and in writing) with the clients, family members, caregivers, medical team members, and other stakeholders
• Ensuring clients' work-related information is confidential in adherence to the confidentiality, general, and medical policy on ethics and the standard code of conduct in the discharge of the assigned role
• Ensuring team members strictly adhere to industry practices, health, safety, security, and environmental rules and regulations while maintaining up-to-date records
• Assisting the Superior/Designate to build, motivate, and retain team members towards the achievement of set targets and deadlines
• Performing other medically related and administrative duties as assigned by the superior
• Being responsible for patients’ valuables during their care

• Triaging of patients
• Constant monitoring of patient vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels to ensure they are within normal parameters and intervene when needed
• Nebulization and oxygen administration/therapy
• Postoperatively caring for patients while monitoring pain levels, administering medications, observing their incision sites, and implementing bed rest
• Maintaining an accurate fluid input and output chart
• Urethral catheter insertion, monitoring, and care of the catheter
• Offering care and support to patients and relatives throughout the admission to the hospital, including help with patient bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating (Bedside Nursing)
• Documentation of interventions and procedures
• Update and communicate with doctors about patients' status, new changes noticed, and the plan to be instituted
• Administering prescribed medications, blood and its products, monitoring of patients for adverse reactions, and documentation
• Dressing patients' wounds aseptically, monitoring the progress and healing of wounds
• Performing minor and assisting with major suturing
• Educating patients and their relatives to ensure they understand their condition and treatment plan (health education and awareness creation)
• Receiving babies, grooming, feeding, cord care, and monitoring

• Offering care and support to patients and relatives throughout the admission to the hospital, including help with patient bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating (Bedside Nursing)
• Educating patients and their relatives to ensure they understand their condition and treatment plan (health education and awareness creation)
• Constant monitoring of patient vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels to ensure they are within normal parameters for safety and effectiveness
• Administering postoperative care for patients, monitoring pain levels, administering medications, observing their incision sites, and implementing bed rest
• Postoperative care for patients involves monitoring pain levels, administering medications, observing their incision sites, wound care, and implementing bed rest
• Urethral catheterization, monitoring, and its care.
• Documentation of interventions and procedures according to hospital protocol and policies.
• Update and communicate with doctors about patients' status, new changes noticed, and the plan to be instituted
• Administering prescribed blood and its products, monitoring patients for adverse reactions, and documenting.
• Collects and properly labels various types of specimens (Blood, Urine, Feaces, Sputum, CSF, Lumbar fluids and delivers appropriately if necessary
• Administers prescribed medications (oral, intramuscular, intravenous, and subcutaneous) in accordance with policies and legal limitations. Observes patients for reactions to drugs and reports as expected
• Nebulization and Oxygen therapy, monitor patients and intervene timely and efficiently
• Intravenous Cannulation, Administration of Medication through all routes, and intravenous fluid therapy

• Offering care and support to patients and relatives throughout the admission to the hospital, including help with patient bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating (Bedside Nursing)
• Taking up and handing over the ward and patient details
• Administering prescribed medications, monitoring patients for adverse reactions, and documenting
• Intravenous cannulation
• Nebulization and oxygen administration/therapy
• Dressing of wounds aseptically using the prescribed medications or solutions
• Sterilization of instruments using the appropriate solution and strength.
• Daily fluid input and output monitoring, including urethral catheter insertion and its care
• Update and communicate with doctors about patients' status, new changes noticed, and the plan to be instituted
• Nursing assessment and monitoring of the elderly
• Educate and encourage patients on how to improve lifestyle choices
• Educating patients and their relatives to ensure they understand their condition and treatment plan (health education and awareness creation)
• Constant monitoring of patient vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels to ensure they are within normal parameters
• Postoperative care for patients involves monitoring pain levels, administering medications, observing their incision sites, and implementing bed rest
• Administering prescribed medications, monitoring patients for adverse reactions, and documenting

• Retrieval of Oocytes
• Perform a 12-lead EKG, applying electrodes to patients requiring cardiac monitoring, and document appropriately
• Assists physicians, Embryologists, and Anesthetists with special procedures
• Assist in embryo transfers
• Nursing of hyper-stimulated patients, weighing of clients
• Administration of prescribed medication
• Insertion of the catheter and its care
• Preoperative counseling of Egg donors and Sperm donors, collection of semen after production
• Prepare patients for clinical procedures, providing reassurance, practical advice to ease concerns, and ensuring the signing of consent forms with a witness present
• Explains nursing interventions and provides appropriate education (medication, procedures, diagnosis-related, equipment, safety) to the patient and/or responsible person, according to their predetermined level of comprehension, and documents on appropriate records
• Collection, properly labeling various types of specimens, and proper storage of samples in the incubators and refrigerator within their appropriate temperatures.
• Constant monitoring of patient vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels to ensure they are within normal parameters
• Carrying out an ECG (Electrocardiogram) test
• General reception and record keeping
• Carry out CTG (Cardiotocography)
• Offering care and support to patients and spouses throughout their admission to the hospital
• Ensuring patients' confidentiality, anonymity, and privacy
• Educating clients and their spouses to ensure they understand their condition, the possibility of 50% positive test or outcome, the treatment plan available, and the cost involved (health education and awareness creation)
• Constant monitoring of patient vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels to ensure they are within normal parameters
• Postoperative care for patients involves monitoring pain levels, administering and documenting prescribed medications, observing their incision sites, and implementing bed rest

• Decontamination of surgical instruments
• Offering care and support to patients and relatives throughout the admission to the hospital, including help with patient bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating (Bedside Nursing)
• Collection and storage of CSSD items
• Checking vital statistics
• Dressing of patients' wounds aseptically
• Monitoring the progress and healing of wounds
• Decontamination of Surgical Instruments
• Assisting patients with minimal passive exercises
• Monitoring and recording of vital signs while noting any deviations

• Checking and recording of vitals
• Wound Dressing Assistance
• Administration of Medication
• Administration of medications with little or no assistance
• Nasogastric tube feeding with assistance
• Assisted with the passage of urethral catheterization, insertion, and strict fluid intake and output monitoring
• Assisted with securing intravenous access and fluid therapy
• Patient vital signs monitoring and administration of oxygen therapy
• Nebulization of patients
• Maintaining a serene environment and providing psychological support by reassuring
• Prepare patients for examinations and carry out standard diagnostic procedures (monitor pulse, blood pressure, and consent form)
• Education of mothers on nutrition, immunization schedules, review dates, and their importance
• Administering vaccines in educational institutions, oral administration of drugs to patients
• Home visits, school visits (school Health), and contact tracing were done

• Physical assessment of mentally ill patients during admission.
• Care of hands and feet, shaving, and maintenance of personal hygiene.
• Assisted with therapy (Individual, Group, Recreational and Occupational)
• Feeding helpless patients
• Administration of prescribed medications (anti-psychotic drugs)

• Assisted in Nebulizing
• Assisted in NG (Nasogastric tube) passage
• Checking vital statistics

• Monitoring vital statistics (temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, oxygen saturation, RBS)
• Wound dressing assistant
• Assisted with intravenous cannulation
• Nasogastric Tube Feeding with assistance
• Checking and recording of vitals
• Administering vaccines in educational institutions
• Oral administration of drugs to patients

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Bsc)