Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Languages
Accomplishments
Certification
References
Timeline
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Ethel Debrah

Accra

Summary

Dynamic Nursing Officer with extensive experience at The Trust Hospital Company Limited, specializing in comprehensive patient evaluations and efficient team management. Demonstrated success in administering medications, monitoring vital signs, and advocating for healthcare improvements. Proficient in EMR software with a strong commitment to mentoring the next generation of healthcare professionals. Career aspirations include driving innovations in patient care and team leadership.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Part Time Lecturer

Health Concern Ghana
Accra
03.2023 - Current
  • Instructs students in Infection Prevention Control, Nutrition, and Community Health.
  • Mentor and counsel students on performance issues.
  • Organizes practical sessions for students.
  • Evaluate and appraise students' academic work.
  • Collate students' results using Microsoft Excel.

Nursing Officer

The Trust Hospital Company Limited
Osu
01.2017 - Current

Assess patients to identify proper treatment in collaboration with other health care professionals.

I manage shifts, and assign roles and duties to team members.

I provide ward supervisory roles to junior nurses.

I perform blood transfusions and monitor the client for any transfusion reactions.

I serve medication through the oral, injection, and intravenous routes.

I partake in ward rounds.

I dress wounds.

Monitoring of vital signs.

Pass urethral catheters for both males and females.

Feed clients via NG tube

Pass IV cannula.

Proficient in Microsoft and EMR.

I document nursing care.

I educate and inform clients, families, and caregivers about health, wellness, nutrition, and medication management.

I advocate for healthcare improvements.

Rotation Nurse

Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Accra
03.2016 - 05.2016
  • Assisted with the admission and orientation of patients.
  • Ensured the maintenance of personal hygiene of patients through bathing and dressing procedures.
  • Assisted the psychiatric nurse in the administration of prescribed drugs.
  • Helped to maintain a healthy psychological environment.
  • Participated in social and rehabilitation therapies for patients.

Rotation Nurse

Ga South Municipal Hospital
MacCarthy Hill
03.2015 - 04.2016
  • Ensured the patient's hygiene by assisting in the bathing of bedridden patients.
  • Dusting the nursing station, as well as stocking the unit with necessary supplies.
  • Performed administration of intravenous fluid in drug medication under supervision.
  • Assisted the midwife in the delivery of the baby.
  • Educated pregnant women on personal hygiene and signs of labor.
  • Engaged in the admission and discharge of patients.
  • Monitoring of vital signs.
  • Assisted in nebulizing children with an acute asthmatic attack.
  • Tepid sponge children with a high temperature and triaging them as well.
  • Monitored fluid intake and output, as well as vital signs in the theater recovery room.
  • Assess and monitor the surgical incision site postoperatively.
  • Decontamination and washing of used surgical instruments.

Voluntary Nursing Officer

Otobia Memorial Hospital
Accra
10.2014 - 12.2014
  • Monitored patients' vital signs.
  • Administered the prescribed drug through intravenous, oral, and intramuscular routes.
  • Administered blood transfusion, and monitored transfusion reaction.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

St Karol School Of Nursing
Aplaku Bortianor
08-2014

High School Diploma -

Krobo Girls Senior High
Odumase Krobo
06-2009

Master of Science - Internal Public Health

University of Liverpool John Moore
United Kingdom

Skills

  • Comprehensive patient evaluation
  • Patient medication management
  • Infection prevention
  • Wound care
  • Vital signs monitoring
  • Team management
  • Academic mentoring
  • Proficient in EMR software utilization
  • Effective shift coordination
  • Effective public speaking
  • Effective listening
  • Prioritization of tasks
  • Public health initiatives
  • Proficient in IV access techniques

Affiliations

I love to cook, and learn new things Currently I have been able to achieve a certificate in basics in cake baking from Alison platform

Languages

English
First Language

Accomplishments

A student acknowledged me by honoring me with a citation

I have gotten the opportunity to give a health talk in outreach programs at work

Certification

Institution: South Dakota Board of Nursing

Nursing registration number R059144

Institution: Ghana Nursing and Midwifery Council

Nursing registration number RGN 22595

Institution: St. Karol School of Nursing, affiliated to

(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)

IELTS Academic: Overall band score [7.0]

Listening 7.0, Reading 7.0, Writing 6.0, Speaking 7.0

TRF NUMBER: 24GH501629DEBE001A, 29TH AUGUST 2024

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Part Time Lecturer

Health Concern Ghana
03.2023 - Current

Nursing Officer

The Trust Hospital Company Limited
01.2017 - Current

Rotation Nurse

Accra Psychiatric Hospital
03.2016 - 05.2016

Rotation Nurse

Ga South Municipal Hospital
03.2015 - 04.2016

Voluntary Nursing Officer

Otobia Memorial Hospital
10.2014 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

St Karol School Of Nursing

High School Diploma -

Krobo Girls Senior High

Master of Science - Internal Public Health

University of Liverpool John Moore
Ethel Debrah