Rebecca Addai

• Assessment of care needs, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions rendered.
• Maintain effective communication with patients, relatives, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure appropriate information is shared and patients' needs are met.
• Care of the patient with a chest tube, nebulizing and suctioning when necessary.
• Administration of medications such as aerosols, oxygen therapy and other inhalational agents, then monitoring the patient for side effects and reaction.
• Pre-Operative preparation of patient in emergency and elective procedures.
• Assisting in medical procedures when needed.
• Setting of IV cannulas, intravenous medications, intravenous hydration and blood transfusions.
• Practice within the code of professional conduct and other legal and ethical guidelines.
• Educate patient and family members on Respiratory health, treatment, and preventing spread.
• Supervise licensed practical and vocational nurses, nursing assistants and nursing students.
• Evaluates patient response to interventions and modify plans as needed.
• Draws blood, urine samples and other body fluids for laboratory investigations.
• Ensures patients safety by using appropriate infection control methods.
• Advocates for the health and wellbeing of patients
• Triaged patient to identify and prioritize urgent care
• Checked patient's baseline vital signs addressed inconsistencies.
• Patient history taking.
• Ensured infection prevention adherence and provided a clean working environment and prevent infection.
• Dressing wounds aseptically to promote healing and prevent infection.
• Bed bath, mouth care, care of hands and feet and care of the hair for patients.

• Preoperative assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation interventions given.
• Maintain effective communication with patients, relatives, and other members of the surgical team to ensure appropriate information is shared and patients' needs are met.
• Assessment of patients prior to and after elective and emergency surgeries and ensuring pre and post operative rules are followed.
• Post operative care such as assessing vital signs, effective pain management using nonpharmacological and prescribed pharmacological interventions, positioning and addressing any immediate post operative complications.
• Shave, bath and clean operative sites.
• Ensure all needed tests and imaging are done duly and maintenance of patients records and timely documentations.
• Ensures a complete preoperative check list.
• Follow all infection control rules.
• Passing of Urethral catheter prior to surgery.
• Monitoring patients and Post Operative management until full recovery.
• Setting IV cannulation for medications, infusions and blood transfusions.
• Explaining patient's rights and reinforcing education
• Ensuring the signing of informed consent.
• Answer patient's questions and ensure comfort and support bereaved and distressed relatives when needed.
• Monitor patients for condition changes and inform physician.

Perform interventional duties after post-operative emergencies.

• Surgical wound care.
• Suture removal.
• Documentation and Discharge planning.

• Evaluated patient's level of pain, implementing effective coping measures to support pain management techniques
• Ensured continuous care through follow ups
• Undertook and demonstrated nursing tasks in the best interest of patients and professional standards
• Maintained emergency room care standards
• Monitoring and recording patients' intake and output
• Practiced good nursing documentation to ensure continuity of care
• Administering medications under supervision
• Admission and Discharge of patients
• Checking and recording of vital signs
• Setting up tray for Iv cannulation
• Blood Glucose Monitoring
• Assisting bed bath
• Orienting patient and family to the ward.