CLAIRE REID

Ward 7A

• Enhanced patient care by implementing evidence-based nursing practices and protocols.
• Facilitating thorough discharge education and follow-up to assist the reduction of patient re-admission.
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams for optimal patient outcomes and efficient care coordination.
• Promoting culture of safety by maintaining strict adherence to OSH policy, infection control protocols and reporting potential hazards. Ensuring colleagues are made aware of these hazards and reporting them appropriately ie near misses or errors.
• Ensured accurate documentation of all patient records, contributing to improved quality assurance measures.
• Co-ordinating of complex tertiary surgical unit and mentored new nursing staff and students, offering support and enabling professional growth and team building.
• Assisted in developing continuing education programs and quality improvement, participation in clinical audits enhancing staff knowledge and skills in clinical practice areas.
• Serving as a patient advocate, ensuring individual needs such as cultural diversity are met and concerns regarding care are addressed promptly.
• Provided specialised care for critically unwell and high dependency patients requiring advanced monitoring and interventions. Enabling prompt medical assessment when required.
• Developed strong rapport with patients and families, promoting open communication channels for effective collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

Ward 3C Antenatal/Postnatal

August 2021 to 0ctober 2021

Secondment as Registered Midwife within SMHS

• Antenatal & Postnatal Care
• Neonatal Care
• Clinical resource and support as a senior RM for midwifery colleagues, RNs & students.

• 2004 to 2005

Graduate Midwife Program

Rotations in

Labour and Birthing Suite & Maternal Fetal Assessment Unit (MFAU).

Ante/Postnatal Wards

NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

2005 to 2010

Rotational Midwife through

Labour & Birth Suite

NICU

Ante/postnatal Wards

ASCU

2010 to 2018

Registered Midwife/Nurse

Permanent Role on Antenatal/Postnatal Wards.

2018 to Current

Casual Midwife/Nurse

Antenatal/Postnatal Wards.

Gynaecology Ward

MBU - Mother & Baby Unit.

• Enhanced patient care by effectively managing and monitoring women in the antepartum and postpartum periods.
• Reduced maternal and infant complications by providing appropriate antenatal care and education on healthy pregnancy practices and un- stable conditions requiring continued monitoring.
• Improved patient satisfaction with childbirth experiences by providing education regarding labor and birth routines, expectations and expected outcomes.
• Provided comprehensive breastfeeding education for new mothers and families, encouraging successful nursing relationships.
• Providing neonatal care and observation of the newborn infant and supporting new parents and offering them education to safely and confidently care for their newborn.
• Providing comprehensive evidence based postnatal care of women post vaginal births and caesarean sections.
• Utilising the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient care, act on abnormalities in clinical status and reduce postnatal complications and reduce the incidence of readmission for mother and baby.
• Care of unwell and/or unstable antenatal, post natal & gynae patients in the Adult Special Care unit. Administration of blood transfusion when indicated.
• Care of unwell & premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Registered Nurse

Graduate Program 2001 to 2002

Rotations on

Ward 9 South

• Colorectal surgery
• Ear Nose and Throat Surgery,
• Tracheostomy & Larygectomy Care.
• Opthalmology pre and post operative care. Stoma management & education.
• Post Op Breast procedure care.

Ward D4 Paediatrics

• Paediatric general surgeries - care of unwell babies on Oxygen and admin. of pain relief & antibiotics.

Ward V6 General Medical.

• Respiratory illnesses
• Rehabilitation post surgery & strokes etc.
• Dermatology - skin wraps and admin of antibiotics.

Ward 7 North

2006 to 2014.

Registered Nurse 2006 to 2007

Acting Clinical Nurse 2007

Clinical Nurse 2007 to 2014

• Colorectal Pre & post Surgical -
• Stoma care & education
• Parenteral nutrition
• Antibiotic admin - IVABs through Peripheral & Central Access.
• Postop wound care - complex abdominal & perianal wounds.
• Urology Pre & Post Surgical -
• Bladder washout management.
• Post urology procedure care & education, Urostomy care and education.

Ear, Nose and Throat -

• Tracheostomy Management & Education, Laryngectomy Care.
• Epistaxis Care & Management.
• Plastics -

One to one nurse specials of

• Muscle Flaps Floor of Mouth, Major Pectoral & limb repairs often with tracheostomies - care, suctioning and education.
• Application of & acute care of skin grafts to complex muscle flaps and split skin grafts.

Employment to facilitate completion of clinical component for Post Graduate Diploma of Midwifery.

• Rotations in Labour and Birth Suite under supernumery role with RM & SD Midwife,
• Independent care of postnatal women and their healthy newborns.
• Rotation in Neonatal Special Care Nursery.