AN RADICH

15 bed pre-operative 23 bed overnight stay and 8 bed day case unit caring for patients requiring pre-op and post-op care

Key responsibilities:

• Admitting patients before their surgery or procedure
• Providing care for patients after their surgery or procedure, recognising early signs of deterioration and managing accordingly
• Discharging patients including patients education, follow-up appointment, wound care and drain management and transportation for country patients
• Caring for patients requiring try of void
• Managing immunology patients undergoing medication challenge and bee venom desensitisation

Key responsibilities:

• Managing patients with general surgery, plastic surgery and vascular surgery
• Managing medical patients, neurological patients, respiratory patients and vascular patients

Key responsibilities:

• Customer service eg quoting, ordering and providing consultation
• Designing, arranging and installing floral displays using various construction techniques for special events
• Collaborating with event management

30 bed unit caring for critically ill patients

Key responsibilities:

• Continuing with responsibilities in GHDU
• Commencing on ICU upskilling program
• Administering inotropes & vasopressors
• Looking after patients on mechanical ventilation
• Caring for patients with external ventricle drainage & neurological deterioration
• Monitoring metabolic function
• Managing sepsis & shock
• Caring for patients with continuous renal replacement therapy

7 bed unit caring for high acuity medical and surgical patients requiring a high level of support, monitoring and a 1:1 or 1:2 nurse to patient ratio

Keyr esponsibilities:

• Management of deteriorating patients
• Caring for acutely ill patients with multiple comorbidities
• Advanced Life Support as per ARC
• Systematic A-E patient assessment, intervention and management
• Haemodynamic monitoring and assessment
• Management of patients requiring inotropic and vasopressor support
• Arterial and Central Line management, Non-invasive ventilation
• Managing patients with thrombolysis and thrombectomy
• Managing patients with DKA and HONK
• Lumbar drain management
• Rapid electrolyte replacement
• De-escalation and management of acutely agitated/delirious patients
• Palliative care in acute care setting
• Collaboration and communication with allied and multidisciplinary teams
• Preceptor/mentor for undergraduate nursing students, new staff and junior staff
• Medication Safety Link Nurse, Hand Hygiene Auditing

6 bed caring for high acuity surgical patients with multiple comorbidities

Key responsibilities:

• Shift coordinating
• Management of critically ill post-operative patients with multiple comorbidities
• Care of complex post-operative patients
• Managing complex wound care including negative pressure dressing
• Tracheostomy management
• Intercostal catheter management
• Non-invasive ventilation
• Continuous bladder irrigation management
• Central Line management and CVP monitoring
• Acute pain management
• Caring for patients with re-feeding syndrome
• Became Clinical Nurse since 2006

24 bed ward managing patients with kidney and liver transplant, pancreatitis, hepatic- encephalopathy, chronic renal failure requiring haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and general surgical patients

Key responsibilities:

• Managing patients with kidney and liver transplant pre and post-operatively
• Managing patients under going Ivor Lewis, Roux-en-Y , gastrectomy, gastric bypass, hemicolectomy, colectomy patients with GI bleed requiring gastroscopy and colonoscopy
• Caring for patients with eating disorders
• Managing patients with pancreatitis, alcoholic liver disease, hepatitis, NAFLD
• Peritoneal dialysis management
• Fluid assessment
• Caring for patients with chronic renal failure requiring regular haemodialysis
• Acting Clinical Nurse

24 bed ward managing patients with DKA, HONK, chronic diabetes with complications, psoriasis, radiotherapy, thyroidectomy and general surgery

Key responsibilities

• Management of patients pre and post thyroidectomy, mastectomy and general bowel surgery
• Managing bariatric patients undergoing Modifast diet
• DKA and HONK management
• Caring for patients having radiotherapy, Palliative care
• Performing wet dressing
• Counselling and educating patients about breast prothesis

G71: 6 months surgical rotation

Key responsibilities:

• Developing patient care plans including assessments, evaluations and nursing diagnoses for post-operative patients
• Surgical wound and drain care
• Acute and chronic pain management

G61: 6 months medical rotation

Key responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing nursing care plans
• Providing all daily living tasks to enhance quality of life for elderly patients
• Discharge planning
• Rehabilitation

Graylands Hospital: 6 months psychiatric rotation

Murchison Unit: 24 bed rehabilitation unit for patients with chronic mental health issues requiring long term and transitional care

Hutchison Unit: open unit facilitating management of acutely unwell mental health patients

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborating with multidisciplinary team and patients regarding treatment plans
• Medication management
• Suicidal patient management and monitoring
• De-escalation of aggressive and violent patients
• Organisation of daily activities