Kathleen Mitra

• Provided patient and family centred care in a 24-bed paediatric ward consisting of general paediatrics and other specialities such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery, otolaryngology, general surgery as well as gynaecology
• Conducted comprehensive assessments and performed nursing skills such as nasogastric insertion, heel pricks, venipunctures, wound dressings, drain tube management, medication administration, red blood cells transfusions and intravenous immunoglobulin transfusions in accordance to hospital guidelines
• Provided neonatal care for patients in presenting with jaundice and feeding problems
• Assisted in managing patient flow through my role as a clinical support and retrieval nurse (CRSN) which involved assessing and retrieving appropriate patients from the emergency department to the ward
• Collaborated with paediatricians, dieticians, physiotherapists, social workers and other healthcare professions to develop individualised treatment plans for each patient
• Provided education for patients and families in relation to eczema, asthma and post-surgery care
• Maintained updated knowledge through continuing education and advanced training

• Confidently and safely administering medication (oral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, topical and rectal)
• ·Managing and following the guidelines in monitoring and providing care for patients with drain tubes such as intercostal catheters, redivacs and jackson pratts. This includes monitoring drain tubes, identifying complications troubleshooting and drain tube removal
• Managing and following the guidelines in monitoring and providing care for patients with PCA as well as continuous infusions
• Managing patients with continuous bladder washout
• Delivering care to the community during COVID-19, working in respiratory assessment clinics and COVID wards across Western Health
• Managing and monitoring cardiac patients on telemetry, including assessing and interpreting lab results, monitoring ECGs, providing pre-operative and post-operative care of cardiac surgery

• Dealing with behavioural patients and difficult complex patients
• Monitoring patients with delirium, incorporating delirium screening test
• Providing end of life care and support to patients and to those close to them
• Exposure to simple and complex wound dressings (e.g. diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, surgical dressings and stoma care)
• Providing care and management for patients with VAC dressings
• Performing indwelling catheter insertion, monitoring output as well as providing education for patients and their family members on how to use a leg bag

• Managing and monitoring patients with respiratory and infectious diseases including: asthma, COPD, pneumonia, respiratory failure, tuberculosis, and influenza
• Evaluating and monitoring patients requiring oxygen therapy, including high flow nasal oxygen
• Being able to recognise and understand the early signs of deterioration/improvement in a patient’s condition by performing thorough assessment
• Working and communicating effectively with the multidisciplinary team to provide the best care in preparation for patients to be able to be discharged safely

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