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MARGEE SALVA

Innisfail,QLD

Summary

Well-versed paediatric and general medicaL and High-Dependency Unit nurse with over 14 years of experience in healthcare. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Awesome teamplayer and keen to learn new knowledge to further enhance clinical experience and leadership capabilities.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

HDU/ MEDICAL WARD Registered Nurse

QUEENSLAND HEALTH
Innisfail, QLD
09.2021 - Current
  • Provides exceptional nursing care to High Dependency Unit patients, whereby close monitoring is required.
  • Manages patients with acute, life-threatening condition and potentially reversible cases
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
  • Assists to invasive procedures like arterial line and central line access insertions.
  • Communicates well with the medical team in referring deteriorating patients to optimize hemodynamic support and adjunct therapies appropriately.
  • Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
  • Worked alongside management to ensure the practice of safety in patient care, collaborating on a few projects that involve visual and actual in-service training.

Clinical Nurse

HEALTHX
Innisfail, QLD
08.2019 - 09.2021
  • Provides exceptional nursing care to surgical, pediatric, and various types of patients allocated in the ward by demonstrating critical thinking, independence, and collaboration with the medical team when escalating, in a timely manner, a deteriorating patient, which promotes a high standard of clinical practice.
  • Mentors junior colleagues and students towards organizations' quality standards, work health and safety policies, and nursing procedures.
  • Highly skilled in various procedures, including difficult IV cannulation, catheter insertion, and CVAD access.
  • Maturely handled after-hours management by allocating patients accordingly and effectively, as well as handling challenging situations and conflicts.
  • Handled Infection Control Portfolio, maintaining above standards percentage in Hand Hygiene Audits among many other procedures by implementing quality standards, promulgating evidence-based practice, and initiating quality improvement projects.
  • Effectively communicated with patient and their families about their clinical issues in line with RN scope, thus achieving more favorable client outcomes.

SENIOR NURSE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SINGAPORE
Singapore, Singapore
11.2012 - 08.2019
  • Assigned in various medical departments, including general wards, pediatrics, emergency, and renal wards, maintaining sound knowledge of practice, guidelines, and standards of nursing care.
  • Performed skilled nursing procedures like pediatric CVAD access, cannulation, and wound dressings, adjunct to high quality and safe nursing practice.
  • Implemented quality improvement alongside with Nurse manager to ensure maintenance of safe standards in patient care

GRADUATE PAEDIATRIC NURSING COURSE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE
Singapore, Singapore
04.2017 - 11.2017

Education

NURSING, BS NURSING -

METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
Manila
04.2010

Skills

  • English, Tagalog
  • Critical Care
  • CVAD, adult and pediatric
  • ALS trained
  • Strong Clinical Judgment
  • Effective and safe after-hours management
  • Culturally-sensitive care
  • Sound knowledge of both pediatric and adult care

Personal Information

Title: REGISTERED NURSE

Timeline

HDU/ MEDICAL WARD Registered Nurse

QUEENSLAND HEALTH
09.2021 - Current

Clinical Nurse

HEALTHX
08.2019 - 09.2021

GRADUATE PAEDIATRIC NURSING COURSE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE
04.2017 - 11.2017

SENIOR NURSE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SINGAPORE
11.2012 - 08.2019

NURSING, BS NURSING -

METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
MARGEE SALVA