Jessa Victorino
Rosemeadow,Australia
Summary
Compassionate registered nurse with background in emergency and critical care (Post Anaesthetic Care Unit). Skilled in fast-paced environments, prioritizing patient needs and delivering high-quality care. Strong communication abilities ensure effective collaboration with healthcare teams. Improved patient satisfaction through attentive service and advocacy.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Emergency Registered Nurse
Campbelltown Hospital
Campbelltown
04.2025 - Current
- Provide safe, evidence-based nursing care to patients presenting with a broad range of medical, surgical, traumatic and psychiatric emergencies.
- Perform comprehensive nursing assessments and prioritise care according to clinical urgency and patient acuity.
- Monitor patients for clinical deterioration and promptly escalate concerns to medical and senior nursing staff.
- Administer medications, IV therapies and other treatments in accordance with hospital policies and clinical guidelines.
- Perform ECGs, IV cannulation, blood collection, wound care, specimen collection and other emergency nursing procedures such as IDC insertion and removal and NGT insertion.
- Assessed patient conditions and updated care plans with multidisciplinary teams.
- Monitored vital signs and escalated changes to medical officers promptly.
- Supported discharge planning and coordinated referrals with community services.
- Maintained infection control standards across patient rooms and clinical areas.
- Educated patients and families on treatments, recovery, and self-care instructions.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
- Collaborated with physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professionals to develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
- Documented patient progress notes accurately and efficiently in the electronic medical record system.
- Advocated for patients by supporting and respecting basic rights, values, and beliefs.
Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 1 in PACU
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Camperdown, Australia
05.2022 - 04.2025
- Caring for patients undergoing high risk emergency and elective surgery in post anaesthetic care unit
- Care for Intensive Care patients and clinically intensive/deteriorating patients independently
- Provision of critical care airway management, pain management in chronically ill patients and postoperative patients, wound management and assessment, early detection and interventions for deteriorating patients
- Liaising with the relevant medical and anaesthetic team to ensure best post operative outcomes
- Accreditation of existing, new staff and new graduates in their clinical skills assessments
- Provided orientation and orientation package manual to new staff and new graduates in post anaesthetic care unit
- Completed all mandatory training and yearly performance appraisal
- Participated in the completion of monthly quality and safety audit
- Participated in auditing hand hygiene and submission of data to National Hand Hygiene Initiative
- Preceptored, supervised and trained new graduates and new staff in post anaesthetic care unit
- Attended hospital bed meetings
- Acted as team leader/in-charge after hours ensuring patient flow, timely staff breaks and management of clinical issues
- Provision of education to patients about their postoperative care and enable patients to participate and make informed decisions to their health care
- Prepared and delivered in service to recovery staff.
- Provided clinical expertise and support to nurses on a variety of patient care issues.
- Monitored staffing levels throughout shifts to ensure adequate coverage is available at all times.
- Provided strong leadership and guidance to nurses.
- Attended facility education workshops and programs.
PACU Registered Nurse
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Camperdown, Australia
02.2017 - 05.2022
- Care for Intensive Care patients and clinically intensive/deteriorating patients independently
- Preceptored and trained new nurses
- Completed all mandatory training and yearly performance appraisal
- Member of the JL Recovery Journal Club
- Presented in-service’s to co-workers
- Perform as nurse in charge of shift and manage patient flow and staff breaks
- Participate in research and data collection
- Ensured compliance with protocols and policies effectively to increase efficiency within the department.
- Assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated nursing care for assigned patients.
- Documented patient progress notes accurately and efficiently in the electronic medical record system.
Recovery and Anaesthetic New graduate
Campbelltown Private Hospital
Cambelltown
02.2016 - 02.2017
- Completed 6-month rotation in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit and 6 month rotation in Anaesthetics
- Assisting anaesthetist in the induction and care of patients undergoing sedation, general and spinal anaesthesia
- Checking in of patients preoperatively making sure that the consent is valid and performs clinical assessment to identify alerts and increased anaesthetic risk
- Checks anaesthetic machine prior to commencement of the list and prepares equipment for the case and assist with intubation
- Care of patients who have undergone elective surgery in post anaesthetic postoperative setting
- Provision of critical care airway management, postoperative pain management and wound assessment and management.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Western Sydney
04-2016
Skills
- Medical Documentation
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Patient Assessments
- Direct Patient Care
- Staff Development
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Patient Management
- PACU assessment
- Airway management
- Medication administration
- Infection control
- Care coordination
- Team leadership
- Pain management
- Emergency nursing
- IV cannulation
- Clinical documentation
- Critical thinking
- Advanced cardiac life support
References
Available upon request
Professionaldevelopmentcourses
- SURGE Critical Care Nursing course, 2021
- Advanced Life Support training, 2018, 2021
- Accredited ALS Provider in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 2024
- Paediatric Advanced Life Support, 2024
- Between the flags DETECT training (Adults), 2018
- Between the flags DETECT training (Paediatrics), 2017
- Child Protection Training, 2017
- Hand Hygiene Auditor: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, 2024
- Tracheostomy Care, 2024
- Basics of Infection and Prevention Control NHHI, 2024
- ALS training 2025
- Accredited ALS provider in Campbelltown Hospital
Timeline
Emergency Registered Nurse
Campbelltown Hospital
04.2025 - Current
Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 1 in PACU
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
05.2022 - 04.2025
PACU Registered Nurse
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
02.2017 - 05.2022
Recovery and Anaesthetic New graduate
Campbelltown Private Hospital
02.2016 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Nursing -
University of Western Sydney