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Jonathan Opoku

Jonathan Opoku

Kumasi

Summary

Qualified Nursing Officer with 15 years of experience and success in providing excellent patient care and individualized outcomes. Adept at optimizing patient care and quality goals by streamlining nursing operations and improving resource allocation. Proven leader works closely with coworkers and patients for best-in-class nursing care.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Nursing officer (SNO)

Methodist Medical Center
01.2022 - Current
  • Provide leadership for the nursing team in the ward/unit
  • Supervise nurses and other staff in the ward/unit and assess their training needs to upgrade their skills
  • Take a lead role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in the wards/units
  • Investigate incident reports on patient care safety and counsel staff accordingly
  • Promote practice sensitive to the needs of patients/clients from multi-cultural backgrounds
  • Ensure efficient management of human and material resources for nursing service delivery in the ward
  • Train and orient junior staff on new equipment/devices
  • Ensure the availability of the right skill mix for the delivery of nursing care during every shift
  • Ensure continuing professional development of the junior staff in the ward
  • Participate in clinical audit
  • Carry out other delegated assignment by management.

Nursing officer (NO)

Methodist Medical Center
01.2017 - 01.2022
  • Performed various advanced nursing procedures (passing Naso-gastric tubes, urethral catheters, assessing and passing peripheral intravenous catheters, administration of oxygen and monitoring, and others)
  • Played managerial role of the ward
  • Contributed substantively to patients’ consultations
  • Supervised the nursing clinical work of junior colleagues
  • Contributed to in-service training of staff
  • Prescribed and gave nursing care to the patients as necessary
  • Ensured safe storage of drugs, e.g
  • Emergency drugs, supplies and equipment
  • Played nursing leadership role at management level
  • Trained other junior nursing staff.

Senior Staff Nurse (SSN)

Methodist Hospital Ankaase
01.2012 - 01.2017
  • Attended to acutely ill patients
  • Supervised, coordinated and provided direct nursing care to patients
  • Provided patient and family education, counseling, and support
  • Coached new staff nurses and nursing students in learning activities
  • Managed admissions, transfer and discharge of patients
  • Reviewed clinical performance of nursing students and new nurses
  • Recognized early signs and/ or deterioration of patients’ condition with appropriate physiological assessment and observations
  • Performed some advanced nursing tasks
  • Worked at Antiretroviral treatment unit as counselor and test conductor.

Staff Nurse

Methodist Hospital Ankaase
01.2009 - 01.2012
  • Had one-year clinical nursing rotation in obstetrics & gynecology, medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and public health nursing
  • Supervised, coordinated and provided direct nursing care to patients
  • Provided patient and family education, counseling, and support
  • Admitted and discharged patients
  • Educated patients on disease condition
  • Took care of patients’ hygiene
  • Dressed surgical and non-surgical wounds
  • Served medications to patients
  • Prepared for ward rounds
  • Prepared patients for surgeries
  • Attended to post-operative patients
  • Attended to trauma patients
  • Assessed patients’ vital signs.

Education

Bachelor Of Science - Physician Assistantship

Presbyterian University College
Agogo, Ashanti, Ghana
05.2017

Diploma - Registered General Nursing

Presbyterian Nursing And Midwifery Training Colleg
Agogo, Ashanti, Ghana
08.2008

SSCE Certificate - General Science

Techiman Senior High School
Techiman, Bono, Ghana
05.2003

Skills

  • Clinical Leadership
  • Nursing Management
  • Clinical management
  • Patient confidentiality

Accomplishments

Chief investigator effective Chronic Wounds healing research, January 2019 to Date

Timeline

Senior Nursing officer (SNO)

Methodist Medical Center
01.2022 - Current

Nursing officer (NO)

Methodist Medical Center
01.2017 - 01.2022

Senior Staff Nurse (SSN)

Methodist Hospital Ankaase
01.2012 - 01.2017

Staff Nurse

Methodist Hospital Ankaase
01.2009 - 01.2012

Bachelor Of Science - Physician Assistantship

Presbyterian University College

Diploma - Registered General Nursing

Presbyterian Nursing And Midwifery Training Colleg

SSCE Certificate - General Science

Techiman Senior High School

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