Keana Salvatierra
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Newly graduated Registered Nurse with prior experience working as an Enrolled Nurse, seeking to apply further comprehensive education and hands on patient care. Compassionate and hardworking, committed to providing person-centred care without judgement. Highly organized with strong communication abilities. Skilled in direct patient care, and managing high-stress situations. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful and professional attitude.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Practice Enrolled Nurse
Warringah Medical and Dental Centre
04.2023 - Current
- Working in a treatment room in a highly populated area of the Northern Beaches, seeing up to 40-70 patients per day
- Triage and prioritising emergencies, able to conduct thorough clinical assessments and prioritise cases using nursing triage tools, ensuring timely intervention in urgent situations
- .Administering vaccinations and medications: Extensive experience across all age groups, including childhood immunizations: Follow immunization schedules, creating a comfortable environment for young patients and their families.
- Administering Iron Infusions: Ensure safe and effective procedures as per protocol.
- Running the Nurse-led Travel Clinic: Providing a comprehensive consult, advice on travel health precautions, and appropriate immunisations.
- Acute and Chronic Wound Care: Manage wound care through aseptic techniques, monitoring healing, and minimising infection risks.
- Assisting GPs with Minor Procedures in Women’s Health & Skin: Including IUD insertions, biopsies, and lesion removals, with post-procedural monitoring.
- Providing Health Education and Support: Actively engage in empowering patients with knowledge for informed decisions about their health.
Casual Assistant in Nursing
Prince of Wales Hospital
10.2022 - 05.2023
- Providing support and assistance to the nursing team acute and subacute environments to ensure smooth operations of patient care throughout shifts
- assist with patient care interventions as directed by RNs and EENs
- personal care including showering, dressing, grooming, manual handling and assisting mobilisation with mobility aids
Casual Clinical Support Administrator
Emergency Department Sydney Children’s Hospital
03.2021 - 04.2023
- Checking in patients at the front desk, checking in patients coming via ambulance
- Booking appointments
- Assisting parents with admission paperwork
- Answering and filtering phone calls, billing overseas patient
Casual Assistant in Nursing
Uniting War Memorial Hospital
06.2022 - 03.2023
- Providing support and assistance to the nursing and allied health team in a subacute environment
- Assisting with patient care interventions as directed by RNs and EENs, personal care including showering, dressing, grooming, manual handling and assisting mobilisation with mobility aids
Medical Secretary
Eyes and Faces – Dr Anthony Maloof
06.2020 - 12.2021
- Booking of appointments and surgeries (phone and desk)
- Billing of private patient accounts
- Processing referrals
- Ensuring smooth operation of administrative tasks, sorting of incoming and outgoing correspondence
- Dictaphone typing, filing and scanning of confidential documents
Patient Service Lead/ Reception Supervisor
Summerfield Health Centre
05.2019 - 05.2020
- Managing a team of 6 members of staff
- Management of GP and Nurse rosters, booking locum GPs
- Recalling patients for results and preventative health e.g pap smears, diabetic eye screening
- Clinical coding, filing and scanning of confidential documents, repeat prescriptions,
Medical Administrator
Quay Appointments Ltd Agency
06.2018 - 06.2019
- Typing letters via Dictaphone for Staff Specialists and Registrars, scanning documents into patient notes, sending out correspondence, processing referrals, reception work, Medicare and overseas billings, creating patient files, checking in patients coming via ambulance, assisting parents with admission paperwork
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW2025
Diploma - Nursing
TAFE NSW Randwick
Randwick, NSW12.2022
National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) - Level 2 in Business Administration
Barnfield College
Luton, UK2012
A-Levels - German, Travel & Tourism
Luton Sixth Form College
Luton, UK2011
GCSE’s -
Cardinal Newman Secondary School
Luton, UK05.2009
Skills
- BLS & First Aid Training
- Communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff of all levels
- Medication Administration including IV administration
- Travel medicine
- Direct Patient Care both adult and paediatric
- Family Education
- Wound Management
- Clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Vaccine administration
- Performing ECGs
References
- Kunwar Narula, Practice Nurse Manager, 02 9938 6666, kunwarnarula@medcentre.net, 10 Dale Street BROOKVALE, NSW 2100
- Ronan O’Reilly, UTS Facilitator, 0423831761, ronan.oreilly@uts.edu.au, Building 10, level 6 235 Jones St, ULTIMO, NSW, 2007
- Dr Frederick Gudex, General Practitioner, 02 9938 6666 freddie.gudex@gmail.com, 10 Dale Street BROOKVALE, NSW 2100
- Maura Penn, TAFE Facilitator/Registered Nurse & Midwife, maura.penn@tafensw.edu.au
Timeline
Practice Enrolled Nurse
Warringah Medical and Dental Centre
04.2023 - Current
Casual Assistant in Nursing
Prince of Wales Hospital
10.2022 - 05.2023
Casual Assistant in Nursing
Uniting War Memorial Hospital
06.2022 - 03.2023
Casual Clinical Support Administrator
Emergency Department Sydney Children’s Hospital
03.2021 - 04.2023
Medical Secretary
Eyes and Faces – Dr Anthony Maloof
06.2020 - 12.2021
Patient Service Lead/ Reception Supervisor
Summerfield Health Centre
05.2019 - 05.2020
Medical Administrator
Quay Appointments Ltd Agency
06.2018 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Technology Sydney
Diploma - Nursing
TAFE NSW Randwick
National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) - Level 2 in Business Administration
Barnfield College
A-Levels - German, Travel & Tourism
Luton Sixth Form College
GCSE’s -
Cardinal Newman Secondary School
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