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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software
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Swimming, dancing, listening to music, reading
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JOYCE NAA LANKAI LAMPTEY

REGISTERED MIDWIFE
ACCRA
JOYCE NAA LANKAI LAMPTEY

Summary

Dedicated and compassionate midwife, with extensive experience in nursing and midwifery practice. Dynamic and versatile. Critical thinker with strong practical skills and a natural ability to build rapport with patients and families. Excellent team player, good listener and ready to learn from colleagues and superiors. Thoughtful Midwife with distinguished knowledge of providing care for birthing and new mothers. Skilled in closely monitoring vital signs and dedicated to both safety and happiness of patients. Closely monitors health while maintaining stringent focus on patient comfort and safety.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
9
years of post-secondary education
2
Certifications
3
Languages

Work History

Midwife, LEKMA HOSPITAL, ACCRA
ACCRA

Midwife
06.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing and midwifery care.
  • Educate mothers and families on pregnancy-related topics to inform and prepare for pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.
  • Provide prenatal care by monitoring mother and baby health, identifying potential health concerns and providing advice to support mothers.
  • Inform families on potential risks and overall benefits of various birthing options.
  • Perform ultrasounds, monitor fetal heart rate and provide pre- and post-natal care.
  • Delivered over 2000 newborns as qualified midwife, Performed over 2000 successful births and provided post-partum counseling for struggling families to increase happiness and health of newborns and mothers
  • Assess fetal distress during labor and delivery and provide appropriate interventions.
  • Managed fetal distress and delivery complications calmly to provide safety to mothers and babies.
  • Perform routine postpartum care, such as suturing and wound care.
  • Co-managed high-risk pregnancies and assisted in delivery of multiples.
  • Use special labor and delivery procedures, including episiotomy, forceps deliveries, manual removal of placenta.
  • Neonatal resuscitation.
  • Management of post-partum hemorrhage.
  • Management of eclampsia and other hypertensive conditions in pregnancy.
  • Watch vital signs, checked for comfort levels and monitored emotional states of mothers before, during, and after labor.
  • Perform neonatal assessments by checking baby's vital signs and performing physical exams to determine overall health at birth.
  • Offer postpartum care and provide guidance on postpartum recovery.
  • Provided Comprehensive abortion care for over 200 clients.
  • Educated patients on breastfeeding and provided lactation support.
  • Assisted in surgery as scrub nurse during caesarian sections.

MIDWAY HOSPITAL
ACCRA

LOCUM MIDWIFE
07.2019 - Current

Job overview

  • Administer pain medication during deliveries to keep mothers comfortable and safe during delivery.
  • Follow professional standards and guidelines by adhering to ethical and legal guidelines and maintaining continued education certifications.
  • Participated in over 100 successful births.
  • Promotes benefits of breastfeeding and offered education on proper positioning, latching and breast care.
  • Teach childbirth preparation classes to expectant parents.
  • Educate mothers and families on pregnancy-related topics to inform and prepare for pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.
  • Counsel patients and families on reproductive health and contraception.
  • Facilitate patient referrals to specialists for advanced pre- or post-natal care.

KETU SOUTH MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
AFLAO

REGISTERED MIDWIFE
07.2016 - 06.2020

Job overview

  • Communicating effectively and sympathetically with patients and relatives.
  • Conducted over 2000 successful births.
  • Identifying and managing Emergencies.
  • Gave emotional support to expecting mothers by answering questions and alleviating concerns.
  • Diagnosed and treated patients with high-risk complications.
  • Ultrasound Scanning
  • Handled labor and delivery for moms choosing alternative birth methods.
  • Assisted Doctors for instrumental delivery.
  • Used massage to increase patient comfort and streamline birthing processes.
  • Kept accurate medical records by documenting patient prenatal care, labor and delivery and postpartum care.
  • Supervising students on clinical rotation.
  • Ensuring high standard of clinical care
  • Performed prenatal and postnatal examinations.
  • Presentation at clinical meetings

GREATER ACCRA REGIONAL HOSPITAL
ACCRA

ROTATIONAL INTERN MIDWIFE
04.2015 - 05.2016

Job overview

  • Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
  • Built rapport with patients and members of patients' support systems.
  • Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.
  • Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
  • Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
  • Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
  • Implemented care plans for patient treatment after assessing physician medical regimens.
  • Participated in providing ANC to over 100 clients.
  • Assisted in conducting over 100 successful births

Education

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
KORLE-BU CAMPUS, ACCRA

BSC MIDWIFERY from MIDWIFERY
09.2021 - 11.2023

University Overview

ELECTED CLASS CAPTAIN AND COURSE REP FOR THE TWO YEAR PERIOD.

NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
KORLE-BU, ACCRA

DIPLOMA IN MIDWIFERY from MIDWIFERY
08.2011 - 08.2014

NUNGUA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
ACCRA, GHANA

High School Diploma
09.2007 - 06.2011

Skills

High-risk Pregnancy identificationundefined

Accomplishments

  • Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge (1year national service)
  • Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
  • Tema General Hospital
  • LEKMA hospital
  • Mamprobi Polyclinic
  • Ussher Polyclinic

Software

Microsoft, Social media, Spreadsheet

Certification

Helping babies breath

Swimming, dancing, listening to music, reading

I love to swim in my leisure time to release stress. Also love listening to music and dancing to the rythym. I read variety of books to keep myself updated and improve my knowledge.

Timeline

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

BSC MIDWIFERY from MIDWIFERY
09.2021 - 11.2023

Midwife

Midwife, LEKMA HOSPITAL, ACCRA
06.2020 - Current

LOCUM MIDWIFE

MIDWAY HOSPITAL
07.2019 - Current

REGISTERED MIDWIFE

KETU SOUTH MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
07.2016 - 06.2020

ROTATIONAL INTERN MIDWIFE

GREATER ACCRA REGIONAL HOSPITAL
04.2015 - 05.2016

NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE

DIPLOMA IN MIDWIFERY from MIDWIFERY
08.2011 - 08.2014

NUNGUA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

High School Diploma
09.2007 - 06.2011
JOYCE NAA LANKAI LAMPTEYREGISTERED MIDWIFE