Hi, I’m
ESTHER UZOMA ADJEKE
Registered Nurse
Palmview,QLD
Summary
An enthusiastic and goal driven registered nurse, who is committed to lifelong learning and holistic patient care. I am currently seeking employment as a Registered Nurse, in an acute clinical setting, where my skills can be fully harnessed, further stretched and sharpened to suit the dynamic nature of healthcare
Overview
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (Queensland Health)
Registered Nurse
08.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Gympie Hospital Department of Emergency
- Key Responsibilities:
- Use of radiometer and iSTAT machines for point of care testing
- Management of triaged patients according to acuity
- Competence in Venepuncture and PIVC
- Use of Integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) software for patient care
- Use of nitrous oxide for non-critical procedures
- Competence in ACS pathways
- Sepsis pathway application in adult and paediatric
- Management of non-complex fractures with non-surgical interventions such as moon-boot applications
- Assist with Plasters and suturing
Royal Darwin Hospital (Northern Territory Health)
REGISTERED NURSE
06.2022 - 07.2024
Job overview
- Division of Surgery and critical care.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Venepuncture, PIVC insertion and management and ECGs
- Tracheostomy care
- Medication calculation and Administration – Adult & paeds
- Complete Primary and secondary nursing Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care
- Attend to patients with acute on chronic conditions such as diabetes, liver, lung and heart diseases
- Attend to pre and post operative patients
- Attend to burns patients with appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Wound care such as surgical, burns and trauma wounds, providing simple and complex therapeutic dressings such as Vac dressing, packings and manual debridement.
- Insertion and management of drains such as IDC, NGT, ICC, redivac and pig tail drains.
- Nasopharyngeal, genital and wound swabbing
- Central venous access devices assessment and management
- Liaise with multi-disciplinary teams and refer patients to appropriate allied health teams.
- Maintain therapeutic and professional relationships with patients, families and staff in providing holistic care, including discharge planning
- Respectfully and collaboratively work within the multi-disciplinary team, escalating care where appropriate
- Maintain high standards of practice and take part in quality improvement trainings
- Work within guidelines of practice, following Workplace health and safety policies and procedures.
- Provide preceptorship to students and supernumerary to new staff members
Education
Monash University
Masters of Advanced Clinical Nursing
University Overview
In View
Charles Darwin University
Bachelor of Nursing
03.2022
Skills
- Sound critical and clinical reasoning
- Astute interpersonal skills
- Great enthusiasm and excellent team spirit
- Ability to be flexible, confident and resilient in various types of work environment
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
800 hours of student clinical placement
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (Queensland Health)
08.2024 - Current
REGISTERED NURSE
Royal Darwin Hospital (Northern Territory Health)
06.2022 - 07.2024
Charles Darwin University
Bachelor of Nursing
Monash University
Masters of Advanced Clinical Nursing
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