Jade Melville
Gordonvale
Summary
Healthcare professional prepared to excel in triage environments, leveraging comprehensive experience in patient assessment and care prioritization. Reliable team player focused on delivering optimal patient outcomes and adapting to dynamic healthcare settings. Key skills include critical decision-making and effective communication. Personable and compassionate. Understanding of medical terminology and patient assessment techniques, combined with effective communication and critical thinking skills. Committed to making positive impact on patient outcomes through accurate and timely triage.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Triage Nurse
Cairns Urgent Care Clinic
12.2023 - Current
- Efficient nursing cares including wound care, wound closure, splinting & immobilisation, immunisation, pain management, IV therapies,
initiating emergency cares as needed and injury management. - Counselled patients via telephone and face to face according to established guidelines and protocols, obtained history, & gathered appropriate triage information to refer patients to the correct health care services for their condition.
- Maintained accurate patient records, ensuring thorough documentation of triage assessments and treatment plans.
- Maintained a calm and professional demeanour, with good team communication during high-stress situations, effectively managing patient expectations and alleviating concerns.
- Assisted with training new nursing staff on triage procedures, contributing to the overall growth of the team''s competencies.
- Communication and collaboration with medical officers, QAS, pathology, and imaging services.
Registered Nurse
Qld Health
11.2022 - Current
- Conducting as team leader for shifts, managing a team of staff for the shift, allocating tasks, management of deteriorating patients communicating affectively with team members.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Administration of medications including, oral, IV, IM and subcutaneous medications safely according to established guidelines.
- Clinical skills such as cannulation and venepuncture, wound cares.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Assisted in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members, contributing to a positive work environment and high-quality patient care.
- Served as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations, providing valuable real-world experience and guidance to foster professional growth.
Registered Nurse
Balance! Edmonton Family Practice
09.2022 - Current
- Performing health assessments, driver medical assessments, diabetes cycles of care, GPMP care plans, antenatal cares, spirometry assessments.
- Clinical skills such as complex wound cares, ECG's, Adult immunisations, childhood immunisations, cannulation.
- Served as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations, providing valuable real-world experience and guidance to foster professional growth.
- Administered medications safely including oral, IM, subcutaneous medications.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Communicated effectively with entire health care team to provide effective and safe patient care.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing -
James Cook University
QLD12.2021
Skills
- Triage
- Clinical judgment
- Team collaboration
- Infection control measures
- Splinting and immobilisation
- Wound closure
- Advanced Life Support & Basic Life Support
- Diabetes management, Health assessments, GPMP care plan, spirometry assessment
- Nursing staff leadership
- Chest pain management
- Medication oral, IM, subcutaneous and IV administration
- Cannulation and venepuncture
Certificates
- Advanced Life Support CRANAplus Expected in 10/2024
- Wound closure: The Benchmarque group 10/2024
- Splinting and Immobilisation: The Benchmarque Group 10/2024
- Managing Emergencies in Primary Healthcare: The Benchmarque Group 08/2024
- Triage for Primary Healthcare Professionals: The Benchmarque Group 12/2023
- Venepuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation: Mater Education 11/2022
Referees
Cassidy Coffey, Registered Nurse
ctlizon@gmail.com
0447 627 945
Lorraine Frost, Registered Nurse
lorraine_daley61@hotmail.com
0425 234 290
Anna Stuy, Practice Manager
Anna.stuy@cgpsc.com.au
07 4055 4400
Jodi Wyeth, Clinical Nurse
0400 603 795
jodi.wyeth@health.qld.gov.au
Timeline
Triage Nurse
Cairns Urgent Care Clinic
12.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse
Qld Health
11.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse
Balance! Edmonton Family Practice
09.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Nursing -
James Cook University
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