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Mary Owusu

Bole

Summary

Compassionate and dedicated professional Midwife with nine years experience in the healthcare settings and two years of experience supporting expectant mothers through antenatal and postnatal care. Proficient in ensuring patient comfort, and maintaining hygienic birthing environments. Skilled in foetal monitoring, breastfeeding support, and providing emotional reassurances. Committed to working closely with patients, families and other professionals for well-rounded medical care. Competent in providing personal care to children, adolescent and adults, including the elderly. Takes pride in maintaining patient safety and ensuring confidentiality of patients, treating every individual with respect, dignity and compassion. Acts with integrity and in the best interest of patients while ensuring compliance with policies and guidelines to promote the health and wellbeing of patients under my care.

Looking for an opportunity to provide exceptional care services that promote safety, comfort, and independence of clients.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Midwife

Ghana Health Services, Sakpa CHPS, Bole
03.2022 - Current
  • Giving the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period
  • Providing full antenatal care, including screening tests in the hospital, community, and the home
  • Providing counseling and advice before and after screening and tests
  • Conducting deliveries on her own and care for the newborn infant
  • Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth, by the principles of basic emergency obstetric care
  • Identifying high-risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists
  • Providing support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality, and neonatal death
  • Providing primary care to women of productive age, by the Basic Package of Health Services
  • Supervising the provision of primary health care within the community by female health workers
  • Counseling and educating women, the family, and the community, in relevant areas of health and provide a program of parenthood preparation and complete preparation for childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition
  • Giving support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing, and making up feeds
  • Providing all non-surgical methods of family planning, and counseling for surgical methods
  • Following established health center policies, procedures, and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiatives; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards
  • Decreasing risk of needing a cesarean and reduced rate of labor induction and augmentation.

Community Health Nurse

Jama Health Centre, Bole
08.2015 - 08.2018
  • Developing intervention plans for groups, families and individuals
  • Educating communities about nutrition, hygiene and disease prevention
  • Handing out information about STDs, drug abuse, cigarette smoking or disease outbreaks
  • Administering vaccinations
  • Treating wounds and injuries
  • Checking blood sugar levels and blood pressure
  • Caring for sick or injured people
  • Taking blood donations
  • Identifying barriers to optimal health
  • Assessing the needs of the community
  • Providing care for groups and individuals in remote locations.
  • Responsible for ensuring a high level of care is provided to patients and families.

  • Put patient first in all nursing practices, work together with the multidisciplinary team and seeks to always improve by using reflective practice.
  • Ensure safe medication administration, best practice wound care and clinical support for patients, in line with patients’ needs and legislative requirements.
  • Support the Clinical Care Manager with the management and completion of assessments.
  • Actively engage in handovers with the Clinical Care Team to ensure continuity of care across shifts.
  • Assessing the needs of patients and developing Individualized nursing care plans according to recovery goals.
  • Collaborate with practitioners across other departments to ensure continuity in patient care.
  • Monitors and records patient condition, vital signs, pains scale and recovery progress.
  • Educates patients on their conditions, causes, preventive, and adaptation measures.

Education

Certificate in Midwifery - Midwifery

Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Bole
11.2020

Diploma in Midwifery - Midwifery

University of Cape Coast
Central Region
09.2020

Certificate In Community Health Nurse. - Certificate in Community Health Nursing

Nursing And Midwifery Training College, Bole
Savannah Region. Bole
10.2014

Skills

  • Full knowledge of disease surveillance and control strategy
  • Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and instructional skills
  • Effective team player
  • Good communication skills
  • Competent in patient safety and elderly care
  • Ability to identify and manage situations, lead multidisciplinary teams
  • Self-motivated, capable of working in diverse teams and under pressure
  • Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
  • Good listening and organizational skills
  • Competent in first aid
  • Work with or no supervision
  • Patience, compassion and flexible work ethics

  • Honest, trustworthy and Team player
  • Analytical decision-making skills
  • Good written and oral communication skills
  • Flexibility and adaptability to meet the changing needs of service requirements
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently as required
  • Proven ability to ensure the supervision and management of junior staff
  • Ability to manage workload, delegate appropriately and maintain standards

Personal Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: Ghanaian

References

  • Hajia Fuseina Sulemana, District Director of Health Services, Ghana Health Service, Bole District, sfuseina@rocketmail.com, +233244740283
  • Collins Asumah, District Public Health Nurse, Ghana Health Service, Bole District, mrcollee1950@gmail.com, +233247850078

Certification

UKVI IELTS standard certificate band score (5.5)

UKVI IELTS Academic Certificate band score (5.5)

Nursing and Midwifery council of Ghana Registration-( RM21149)

Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana Registration - (CHN19834).

University of Cape Coast. ( 2nd class upper)

WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS

Care of the Elderly in the Wake of COVID 19 Pandemic (2021).

Basic Life Support (2021)

Infection Prevention and Control Measures (2018)

Basic Human Rights Course for Health Professionals (2013 – 2014)

The use of nursing process in healthcare delivery (2018)

The use of the Health Service Administration System (HAMS) application (2022)

Helping Babies to Breath (2016)

OTHERS

Full COVID Vaccination.

Clean Driver’s License.

Open to jobs in all locations and willing to relocate to any location.

Timeline

Staff Midwife

Ghana Health Services, Sakpa CHPS, Bole
03.2022 - Current

Community Health Nurse

Jama Health Centre, Bole
08.2015 - 08.2018

Certificate in Midwifery - Midwifery

Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Bole

Diploma in Midwifery - Midwifery

University of Cape Coast

Certificate In Community Health Nurse. - Certificate in Community Health Nursing

Nursing And Midwifery Training College, Bole

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