DZADEY MABEL

I am a registered graduate nurse who has been practicing since 2009. I have an expertise in the provision of standard healthcare to all age groups with the application of advanced care techniques, well versed in the provision of quality patient care through assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. I render nursing care to patients with integrity and in the best interest of patients while ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines to promote ward efficiency and delivery of operational excellence.

• International English language test (IELT)
• Computer Based Test (NMC RNA)

RGN5087, Nursing and Midwifery council of Ghana, 14/10/2009

Ghana Registered Nurses And Midwives Association

• 04/2009, 05/2018, Staff nurse/ Senior Staff nurse/ Nursing Officer, Sunyani Municipal Hospital, Sunyani
• 09/2018, Date, Senior Nursing Officer, Nsoatre Polyclinic, Bono

• Teaching students to apply the 6Cs of nursing to their practice
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Fundamentals of chronic pain in children and young people
• Management of acute confusion in patients with CNS infections
• How to perform chest compressions
• Initial assessment of clients presenting for intrapartum care
• Assessment and management of Acetaminophen poisoning in an adult
• Spirituality in nursing practice
• How to monitor blood glucose
• Hypertension: diagnosis, assessment and management
• Covid-19 in Ghana: prevention and health promotion
• How mentors can influence the values, behaviors and attitudes of nursing staff through positive professional socialization.
• Covid-19 vaccines in Ghana: Communication and behavioral change
• How to remove a chest drain.
• How to manage a choking adult
• Awareness of secondary traumatic stress in emergency nursing.
• Nursing ethics: Strategies to resolve the Top Ethical Dilemmas Nursing staff face.

• Planning of duty roster for effective pre, intra and immediate post – operative care for patients
• Functioning as a scrub nurse during operative procedures such as thyroidectomy, skin grafting, herniorraphy, cesaerean section, myomectomy, hysterectomy, below knee amputation, laparotomy, major and minor suturing
• Planning and supervising training programs for students on clinical attachments and internship
• Making weekly requisition to hospital stores for logistics, ensuring availability and efficient use of materials at all times.
• Supervising and partaking in preparation of operating theatres for surgical procedures
• Planning and organizing monthly ward meetings to provide in-service training for staffs
• Functioning in a multidisciplinary comprising of general surgeons, anesthetist, obstetrics and gynecological specialist, critical care specialist to plan for successful surgical interventions
• Appraisal of staffs and allocation of task based on staff competence and skills
• Partaking in mortality audits and working out quality improvement measures for rendering quality care to patients
• Assessing, planning, implementing or evaluating patients nursing care plans by working with healthcare team members.
• Admission and discharge of patients
• Treating patients with respect and dignity, and giving attention to individual needs and wishes
• Providing ward leadership for junior staffs and Healthcare Assistants to ensure closed monitoring of patients
• Participation in ward rounds
• Education of the patient in the aspect of prevention, curative and rehabilitative healthcare
• Ensuring the provision of high standard care to patients post operatively to promote early healing and recovery
• Planning and supervising wide range wound care techniques to facilitate early wound healing and prevent surgical site infections
• Pain management and control
• Handing and taking over patients care
• Education of patients and their relatives on health promotion activities
• Participate in clinical audit in the ward
• Canulation and administering intravenous medications, monitoring them for side effects and reactions.
• Promote practice that is sensitive to the needs of patients/ clients from multi-cultural backgrounds
• Maintaining accurate, complete health care records and reports.
• Protect all confidential information concerning patients obtained in the course of professional practice and make disclosures only with the patients consent or when disclosure can be appropriately justified
• Monitoring vital signs (Pulse, Temperature, Respiration and BP) and medical information
• Catheterization and catheter care.
• Feeding e.g. oral, nasogastric or parenteral feeding and ensuring adequate nutritional intake of patients in collaboration with the dietician
• Obtaining specimens (body fluid, wound swabs, blood) for laboratory investigations
• Carrying out practical nursing skills such as pressure area care and notifying changes in patient condition

• Mercy Fordjour, Deputy Director of Nursing Services, Sunyani Municipal Hospital. Bono, +233200642999, mercyfordjour71@gmail.com
• Eshun Elvis, Head Of Administration, Nsoatre Polyclinic, Bono, +233245330041, joeeesh@yahoo.com

Nurses and Midwives Association, Ghana

• Registered General Nurse