Kireeti Karan
Caroline Springs,Australia
Summary
Professional Clinician with thorough experience in delivering high-quality patient care and therapeutic services. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability to changing needs, and achieving impactful results. Skilled in patient assessment, treatment planning, and evidence-based interventions. Reliable and goal-oriented, with passion for supporting participants' mental health and well-being.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinician
Alfred
02.2019 - Current
- Complete comprehensive mental health assessments of consumers who are accessing PARC program
- Support Senior Clinician to undertake initial and ongoing risk assessments of participants and develop risk management plans to provide a safe environment
- Formulate and document plans of care for clients to support transitioning home
- Provide medication supervision and psycho-education to clients
- Plans and implement interventions aimed at alleviating or avoiding psychiatric crises in community
- Demonstrated ability to provide crisis management and intervention
- Support senior clinician collecting and reporting of KPI data relating to PARC including information about referrals, assessments and occupancy
- Experience working with a range of clinical and non-clinical staff
- Experience of working in partnership with non-clinical staff and of the strengths skills and perspectives they bring
- Demonstrated ability to effectively liaise, consult and negotiate with clients, families and carers, as well as a broad range of health professionals and community agencies
Western Aged Person Assessment & Treatment Team
02.2018 - 02.2019
- Provide assessment, treatment and discharge planning for people over 65 years of age, with mental health issues, who reside in their own homes in the Western metropolitan region of Melbourne
- Provide brief interventions as well as medium to long term, depending on the identified needs of the person
- Work closely with consumers, carers and wider family members or support systems to achieve positive recovery outcomes
- Provide different modalities of treatment, depending on the identified needs of the person
- Complete all required clinical documentation in a timely manner in keeping with service requirements, policies and procedures
- Ensure all clinical records are kept up to date and are reflective of the consumer’s current mental state, risk profile and recovery goals
- Provide a gatekeeper role for the Acute Mental Health Units and Intensive Community Team when people are in an acute phase of their mental health
Northern Acute Inpatient Unit
10.2017 - 02.2018
- Company Overview: Northern Hospital, Epping, VIC
- Greater understanding of holistic care by collaborating multidisciplinary team in addressed the emotional, psychological and physical needs of consumers
- Engaged in therapeutic and effective communication with consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary team
- Provided consumer education such as the importance of medication compliance
- Utilised non-pharmacological interventions such as motivational interviewing and sensory modulation
- Consistently performed mental state examinations, risk assessments and maintained accurate documentation of such findings
- Developed knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- Maintained consumer’s privacy and confidentiality
- Northern Hospital, Epping, VIC
Northern Community Care Unit
06.2017 - 10.2017
- Company Overview: Preston, VIC
- Completed client assessment and determine their clinical management needs
- Performed planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual clients care plan, by using recovery orientated practice
- Managed clients care, effectively plan and carry out risk assessment and management
- Planned interventions enhance client’s strengths and increase their involvement in valuable activities in the community
- Utilise psychosocial interventions in assessing and managing mental illness of acute and enduring manner
- Administered medication following the general practitioners prescriptive and ensure that medication recording system is updated accurately
- Participated in implementing the multi-disciplinary team’s assessment and care plan for client
- Preston, VIC
Broadmeadows Aged Persons Psychiatric Unit
01.2017 - 06.2017
- Company Overview: Broadmeadows Hospital, Broadmeadows, VIC
- Administered oral and inject able medications and oversaw the dispensing of oral and topical medications and treatments
- Kept accurate written records of patients care provided including nursing assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, medications administered and discharge planning
- Educated patients and their family members about the patient’s illness, including medications and daily living skills in a supportive manner
- Observed and assessed changes and trends in physical or mental condition of the patient as well as planned and implemented therapeutic interventions and evaluated response to such interventions
- Able to listen and communicate both verbally and non-verbally with patients in a way that ensures confidentiality, privacy and sensitivity
- Broadmeadows Hospital, Broadmeadows, VIC
Education
Master - Mental Health Nursing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Melbourne, VIC01.2020
Graduate Diploma - Mental Health Nursing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Melbourne, VIC01.2019
Bachelor - Nursing
Victoria University
Saint Albans, VIC01.2016
Skills
- Persuasion
- Negotiation
- Cultural understanding
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Therapeutic techniques
- Clinical assessment
Timeline
Clinician
Alfred
02.2019 - Current
Western Aged Person Assessment & Treatment Team
02.2018 - 02.2019
Northern Acute Inpatient Unit
10.2017 - 02.2018
Northern Community Care Unit
06.2017 - 10.2017
Broadmeadows Aged Persons Psychiatric Unit
01.2017 - 06.2017
Master - Mental Health Nursing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Graduate Diploma - Mental Health Nursing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Bachelor - Nursing
Victoria University
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