Amanda Miller

Specialist Practice Nurse, demonstrating time management and stamina during busy 9–10-hour shifts.

Key responsibilities:

• Assisting Dermatologists with surgical procedures and biopsies, and phoning patients with results.
• Attending wound reviews, dressing changes and removal of sutures.
• Treating warts and molluscum, often on young children.
• Sterilisation of instruments and ordering of stock when required.

Achievements

• Managing a busy nurse appointment schedule as well as helping doctors.
• Learning the Genie computer program used at the clinic.
• Becoming expert at using FotoFinder technology to map moles.

Surgical ward nurse in busy Orthopaedic and Urology ward, which converted to Rehabilitation ward during Covid-19 pandemic.

Key responsibilities:

• Collecting patients from theatre and monitoring them post operation.
• Looking after patients in COB (Close Observation Beds).
• Stepping in as nurse in charge when required.
• Patient and family education.
• Mentoring nursing students and graduate nurses.

Achievements

• Excellent assessment skills including early response to deteriorating patients.
• Acting ANUM for maternity leave.

Surgical ward nurse in busy hospital with lots of day surgery, as well as shifts on the 10 bed psychiatric unit.

Key responsibilities

• Caring for day surgery patients from admission through to discharge.
• In charge RN often working with En’s.
• Drawing on a broader set of skills to care for psychiatric patients during their admissions.
• Mentoring nursing students.

Achievements

• Completed qualifications and took on the Infection Control Nurse position.
• Worked in stage 1 recovery when required.
• Demonstrating my versatility and adaptability.

Casual Agency Nurse in acute hospital settings.

Key responsibilities

• Working collaboratively in teams across several disciplines and hospitals.
• Prioritising patient safety at all times, even in unfamiliar environments.
• Critical thinking and problem solving.

Achievements

• Flexibility and dependability.
• Effective communication.
• Increased my skill set working in different departments.