FRIEDA KORKOR NUNOO
Critital Care Nurse
Accra
Summary
Providing comprehensive critical Care Nursing to patients experiencing life threatening or potential life-threatening illnesses. Promoting health by giving the highest standard of nursing care to patient and family
Currently seeking to utilize all skills and abilities in attaining a level of competency to achieve the best in my career, where my professional competence and experience come to play and to also provide an opportunity for personal and career growth.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Critical Care Nurse
THE BANK HOSPITAL
07.2024 - Current
- Unit: Intensive Care Unit
- Nursing Skills:
- Collaborate with physicians and healthcare team to develop and implement individualized care plans
- Managing invasive lines
- Operate life-support equipment
- Educate and support patients’ families offering updates and support
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation of patient care
- Participate in continuous learning and professional development in Critical Care Nursing
- Implementing Infection Prevention Protocols
- A multi-disciplinary private healthcare facility with up to date facilities and state of art equipment. The bank hospital offers a broad spectrum of expert medical care and services to meet the health needs of communities in Ghana and across borders. It is a sixty-seven-bed facility with over seventy specialists and over hundred thousand patient visits annually. The facility was built in 2017 and opened in July 2021.
Critical Care Nurse (Charge Nurse)
MAAMOBI GENERAL HOSPITAL
08.2018 - Current
- Unit: Theater Recovery
- Nursing Skills:
- Develop and maintain continuing personal and professional development to meet the changing demands in the area of practice
- Read reports and take note of critical cases
- Undertake assessment, planning and implementing and evaluating patient care plans to improve health outcomes
- Formulate initiate and revise patient care as condition warrants
- Inserting intravenous Lines
- A Secondary Public Facility built in 1965 with a hundred and four (104) bed capacity, 6 Out-Patient clinics and 9 In-Patient units including the surgical department, medical Department, Paediatric Unit, obstetric and Gynecological Unit.
Critical Care Nurse (Senior Nurse)
NYAHO MEDICAL CENTER
07.2021 - 01.2025
- Unit: Emergency
- Nursing Skills:
- Perform airway Management
- Undertake IV fluid Resuscitation
- Provide general care for the acutely ill Patient and family
- Assist in performing invasive procedures
- Escalate problems, patient needs and treatment outcomes to consulting doctor.
- Identify potential risk and apply mitigation solution to improve health care in collaboration with supervisory personnel.
- Evacuate/Transport of Patient in compliance with the hospital policy
- Admit and Discharge Patient in acute care Setting.
- Perfuse and monitor Patient on haemodynamic drugs.
- Implement infection prevention and control practices.
- Promote and protect the rights of Patients and Relatives.
- Assist in performing major and minor procedures
- Perform basic life Support
- Perform wound care
- Maintaining effective communication with colleagues, clients/patients and relatives
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic patient care environment
- A fifty-four (54bed) bed facility, built in March 1970. A private health facility committed to having an intense focus on patient care while bringing the best of international standards to Ghana.
Critical Care Nurse
GHANA INFECTIOUS DISEASE CENTER
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Unit: Intensive Care
- Nursing Skills:
- Perform airway Management
- Undertake IV fluid Resuscitation
- Provide general care for the critically ill Patient and family
- Provide care for a patient on a ventilator
- Assist in performing invasive procedures
- Assist in endotracheal intubation
- Evacuate/Transport of Patient in compliance with the hospital policy
- Admit and Discharge Patient in acute care Setting.
- Perfuse and monitor Patient on haemodynamic drugs.
- Feeding the critically ill Patient.
- Setting up a Ventilator
- Implement infection prevention and control practices.
- Promote and protect the rights of Patients and Relatives.
- Perform Arterial Blood Gas and electrolytes analysis and interpretation
- A hundred (100) bed facility, built in July 2020 as a result of the emergence of Covid 19 and also to improve medical diagnostic and research capacity in regard to infectious diseases.
Critical Care Nurse Intern-student
KORLE-BU TEACHING HOSPITAL
01.2019 - 10.2020
- Cardio Thoracic ICU/ Neuro surgical ICU
- Nursing Skills:
- Assist in performing major and minor procedures
- Perform basic life Support
- Perform wound care
- Maintaining effective communication with colleagues, clients/patients and relatives
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic patient care environment
- Undertake and demonstrate nursing tasks in the interest of patient care and professional standard which includes;
- O Hemodynamic monitoring
- O Administration of medications
- O Elimination including catheterization, bowel and stoma care
- O Assisting patient in maintaining personal hygiene
- O General assessment of patient
- A 2000 bed public tertiary hospital opened in 1923, located in the southern part of Ghana (Accra). Third largest hospital in Africa with seventeen clinical and diagnostic Departments including the National Cardiothoracic center, National plastic Reconstructive Center, Accident and Emergency, Medical and Surgical department. Has averagely thousand five hundred (1500) Daily patient attendance.
Senior Staff Nurse
AGONA SWEDRU MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Unit: Accident and Emergency
- Nursing Skills:
- Assessing and triaging of patients
- Resuscitation of patient
- Using appropriate protocols in managing emergencies
- Accurate checking and recording vital signs and giving appropriate intervention if there is any deviation from normal
- Taking charge of the unit in the absence of the unit head of Nursing
- Managing and preparing patient to the theatre in surgical emergencies
- Ability to work as a team during mass causalities
- A Secondary Public Facility with a hundred and Sixty (160) bed capacity. With departments such as, Medical unit, Accident and Emergency, Paediatric Unit, obstetric and Gyaenecological Unit.
Staff Nurse
AGONA SWEDRU MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Unit: Theater Recovery
- Nursing Skills:
- Giving general and Specific Post-operative care to the client
- Undertake operational research and disseminate findings
- Taking up and Handing Over of Patients
- Ensuring logistics are available in the recovery for continuity of care
- Maintaining an aseptic environment to promote the safety of patient and staff
- Client education on surgical condition
- Proper documentation of procedures
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in measuring and documenting vital signs and test results such as blood glucose reading, urinalysis, wound and skin checks
Education
Bachelor of Science - Critical care
School of Peri-operative And Critical Care
Accra, Ghana01.2020
Diploma - General Nursing
Nursing and Midwifery Training College
Cape Coast, Ghana01.2010
Senior Secondary School Certificate - undefined
Labone Senior High School
Accra, Ghana01.2005
Skills
- Provision of health care interventions
- Medication administration and documentation
- Give appropriate and patient centered care to the client
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal in English
- A critical thinker who takes initiative and can also work under pressure to meet set goals
- Sound knowledge in Infection Prevention and Control Principles
- Promote good interpersonal relationship between patience and the nurse
- Proficient in using Hospital Information System software (HIS)
- Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS)
Affiliations
- Nursing and Midwifery Council Ghana - (Member)
- Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association – (Member)
- Ghana College Of Nurses And Midwives (Associate)
Certification
- Registered Critical Care Nurse
- PIN: 12FN04973605
- Registration Number: CCN657
- Valid through December 31st,2025
Timeline
Critical Care Nurse
THE BANK HOSPITAL
07.2024 - Current
Critical Care Nurse (Senior Nurse)
NYAHO MEDICAL CENTER
07.2021 - 01.2025
Critical Care Nurse
GHANA INFECTIOUS DISEASE CENTER
01.2021 - 12.2021
Critical Care Nurse Intern-student
KORLE-BU TEACHING HOSPITAL
01.2019 - 10.2020
Critical Care Nurse (Charge Nurse)
MAAMOBI GENERAL HOSPITAL
08.2018 - Current
Senior Staff Nurse
AGONA SWEDRU MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
01.2015 - 01.2018
Staff Nurse
AGONA SWEDRU MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
01.2013 - 01.2015
Diploma - General Nursing
Nursing and Midwifery Training College
Senior Secondary School Certificate - undefined
Labone Senior High School
Bachelor of Science - Critical care
School of Peri-operative And Critical Care
References
- Faustina, Excel Adepa, Principal , School of Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nursing, tinaexcel@hotmail.com, +233 20 892 0497, Korlebu, Accra, Ghana
- Anita, Yawson, Deputy Director of Nursing Services, +233 24 468 1561, Neurological ICU, Korlebu-Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
- Stephen Alan, Brobey, RTD. Justice of The Supreme Court, Ghana, brobeycj@yahoo.com, +233 24 304 0533, Ghana School of Law, P.O.Box CT 6094, Cantonments-Accra, Ghana, Senior Lecturer
Specialized Trainings and Additional Qualifications
- Advance Life Support and Basic Life Support (School Of Anaesthesia And Critical Care) Accra-Ghana. September ,2024
- Advance Life Support and Basic Life Support (American Safety Institute) Accra-Ghana
- Disaster Medicine (AEMS Medical Mass Casualty Collaborative) Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Accra -Ghana. October, 2018
- Basic Human Rights for Health Professionals. Accra-Ghana May 2010
- Microsoft Office Suit (Word, Excel, Teams, outlook, power point) May, 2007