Estella Brahim

I am an enthusiastic, confident and reliable individual who holds a strong work ethic and has developed the ability to build and maintain relationships whilst working as part of a team. I have the interpersonal skills that are required of a Registered Nurse, being empathy, compassion, patience and resilience, to name a few. In combination with my past customer service experience and the training I will receive as a new graduate, I will be a valuable member of NSW Health.

Liverpool Hospital | Intensive Care Unit, CB2

24/04/2023 - 12/05/2023 

• How to use feeding tubes + aspirating + giving medications via OG/ NG tube
• Improving my communication/ collaboration with patients, families and doctors + specialists
• Learning about complex medications that are not used in the wards
• How to care for medically complex, critically ill patients
• Learning about traumatic brain injuries and MAP, ICP and the importance of CPP
• Having patients that I have not cared for before in the wards (neuro and trauma) and understanding what nursing care and interventions are relevant for them
• Frequently assessing GCS
• Neurovascular obs
• Various emergency equipment and safety checks
• Learning about various lines including central lines and PICC
• Learning about the mechanical ventilator and its different settings and functions
• Learning to use ERIC (documentation system used in ICU instead of EMR)
• Time management
• Higher frequency of various observations (hourly vitals, urine output)

Liverpool Hospital | Vascular, CB4B 

03/04/2023 - 21/04/2023 

Liverpool Hospital | SWS Mental Health, South 

20/02/2023 - 03/03/2023  

Campbelltown Hospital | Othopaedics, B32

06/02/2023 - 17/02/2023 

• Linking patients clinical history with medications and treatment plans to provide proper care
• Admission paperwork, under the supervision of a nurse
• Pre surgery and post surgery routine
• Neurovascular obs post surgery
• Vitals and BGL's
• IV medications and subcut injections
• ISBAR handover
• Progress notes

Estia Health Camden | Aged care home 

19/09/2023 - 30/09/2023

• Adapting to a larger patient load
• Medication administration
• Observations,
• Personal care
• Feeding .
• Developed better time management skills
• Documentation
• ISBAR handover
• Using webster medication packs

St George Hospital | Aged care, 7 West

05/09/2022 - 16/09/2022

• Learning how to use EMR
• Using EMR for documentation of obs, progress notes + looking up
  doctors plan or what physio suggests in terms of mobility
• Taking obs
• Taking BGL’s
• Personal care
• Feeding
• Subcut injections
• Being part of the nursing huddle at beginning of shift
• Giving handover of my patient to the next shift
• Providing assistance with mobility
• Medication administration
• IV’s
• Assessing skin integrity of new admissions
• Neurological assessments
• Various risk assessments i.e. waterlow assessment, falls risk
• Bladder scans,

Fairfield Hospital | Cardiac rehabilitation, 1B

16/05/2022 - 27/05/2022

• Developing my clinical documentation skills such as vitals and documenting on SAGO chart
• Giving handover in the ISBAR format
• Learning about personal care
• Developing understanding of professional therapeutic relationship with patients, families and the multidisciplinary team
• Beginning to learn about various conditions and the medications used to treat those conditions