Afrin Nahar Shikha

• Collaborated with physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professionals to develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
• Ensured compliance with standards of professional practice as well as state and federal regulations related to health care delivery services.
• Trained and mentored new RNs and AINs on best practices, aged care policies and standards of care.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
• Maintained a safe environment for all patients by adhering to infection control policies and procedures.
• Provided emotional support and comfort to families during difficult times.
• Assessed patient needs and prioritized treatment.
• Evaluated patients, recognized and addressed complications and coordinated treatment with other members of critical care team.
• Evaluated effectiveness of interventions through ongoing assessment of patient responses.

• Experience with Person-centred care app.
• Liaison with multidisciplinary team in order to achieve optimum care for clients.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and bedside skills.
• Medication administration, wound care and documentation.
• Palliative care including complex pain management.
• Health emergency responses including identification of acute deterioration in residents related to falls and infections compounded by co-morbidities.

Worked as an AIN and my role was to:

• Provide holistic care to the elderly by building rapport and trusting relationship.
• Assist in day to day activities by bathing, grooming, changing bedding and serving meals.
• Assist residents with feeding, ambulating and turning over and repositioning.

Completed 224 hours clinical placement.

• Competently worked in several areas including resuscitation, adult and children cube, short-stay unit and fast track as a student nurse with complete patient load, with the direct and indirect supervision of Registered Nurse where needed.
• Performed relevant, comprehensive and appropriate assessment, established immediate and long term goals and worked with multidisciplinary team to create plan and achieve the goals.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills by using best available evidence in a several conditions including chest pain, abdominal pain, respiratory symptoms, possible stroke, sepsis and other life-threatening conditions.
• Analyzed and interpreted the assessment data to inform practice and escalated concerns and reported changes to senior medical staff.
• Administered oral, intramuscular, Intravenous, subcutaneous, sub-lingual and rectal medications to patients and monitored responses.
• Demonstrated non-touch aseptic technique while inserting catheters, using IV catheter and wound dressing.

Completed 112 hours Clinical Placement

• Worked in the acute medical ward and delivered patient focused holistic care within the scope of practice, ensuring their safety by following the values and principles of the organization.
• Managed and provided wound care.
• Administered blood transfusion and monitored patient status according to the organization protocol and reported update to senior nursing staff.
• Provided palliative and end-of-life care with empathy and compassion to comfort the patient and their family.

Completed 120 hours Clinical Placement

• Worked as a student nurse in the acute mental health setting and delivered care from admission to discharge.
• Monitored four assigned patients within my scope of practice, provided preoperative and postoperative care of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) patients including vital signs and updated the potential outcomes.
• Provided meal supervision and performed MSE, MMSE, AWS, and risk screen thoroughly to prevent harm and identify the variety of mental health conditions and response to the treatment.
• Documented data related to patients’ care and developed care plan.

Completed 160 hours Clinical Placement

• Worked in a variety of areas including surgical, medical and cardiac wards.
• Provided preoperative and postoperative care including admission and discharge planning, and wound care.
• Administered oral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous and topical routes of medication, and removed staples suture.

Completed 160 hours Clinical Placement:

• Checked vitals of the allocated residents.
• Analyzed urine independently.
• Assessed pain and managed accordance with heat or cold pack.
• Performed ECG.

Completed 80 hours Clinical Placement:

• Performed safe manual handling.
• Provided reassurance and redirected residence with dementia.
• Provided person-centred care and build therapeutic relationships with residents and team members.