Mel Fotu
Noraville,NSW
Summary
To seek a registered nurse position that offers professional challenges utilising interpersonal skills and problem-solving skills. Skilled in adapting to new situations and taking action when a problem arises. Ready for a new opportunity to learn, grow and excel.
Personal aspiration to give back to the community by working alongside Pasifika populations and addressing barriers to Pasifika achieving better health outcomes.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Lumina Talents
07.2024 - Current
- Ensuring to document assessment, intervention, and evaluation to contribute to continuum care.
- Updated residents care plan following allied health reviews around medication regime, mobility and transfer or nutrition/hydration.
- Coordinating care with other health professionals by assessing residents and communicating findings for further action and review
- Utilising verbal and written communication skills to relay residents current clinical status, assessments and actions taken.
- Delegating to carer staff and enrolled nurses tasks that are within their skills and competence to carry out and following up to ensure carried out safely and properly.
- Communicating with families about their concerns and queries around provision of care or redirect to appropriate people if unable to help.
District Nursing
Te Whatu Ora
08.2022 - 10.2022
- Provided therapeutic nursing interventions for individualised wound care plan to patients.
- Report patient assessment findings and physical and psychosocial responses to nursing intervention for progress towards care goals.
- Communicate with members of interdisciplinary team regarding different patient care concerns such as continence, mobility aid and Doppler assessment.
- Maintaining infection, prevention and control measures to break chain of infection from transmitting microorganisms from one patient home environment to next.
Pacific Island Community (Tauranga) Trust [PICTT]
Community
05.2022 - 06.2022
- Create safe space to kōrero with parents around their child's health and their knowledge and understanding to provide appropriate advice and referral.
- Using interpreter to provide information regarding medications to ensure patients informed decision and consent.
- Utilising cultural health models such as Te Whare Tapa Whā and Fonofale model to organise my assessment with patients and their whanau.
- Working alongside other members of interdisciplinary teams around patient care concerns addressing other areas of their health such as social, financial, housing, food.
- Provide workshop session with Pasifika youth aged 13-17 around mental health within Pasifika culture.
Medical Day Stay Unit
Te Whatu Ora
03.2022 - 04.2022
- Acknowledge tapu/noa concept during endoscopy procedures by providing time to kōrero with Māori patients around their understanding of procedure - care around tapu areas, biopsies, and cultural practices to ensure culturally safe practice.
- Validating patients' confided concerns and health experiences to provide patient-centered care through holistic health approach
- Reflecting with senior nurses on admissions/discharges I have carried out to ensure I have gathered comprehensive summary of patients' information that may influence scheduled procedures/treatment and recovery environment.
- Abiding by local DHB's protocol around IV infusions and utilising rights of medication administration to guide my step in ensuring I safely and competently prepare and administer due medication infusions within my scope.
- Conducted patient assessments, and recorded vitals and visual observations to monitor patients' status pre, during and after receiving IV infusions.
- Collaborating with other members of multidisciplinary team around patient's continuum of care.
Malyon House
Age Residential Care
02.2022 - 03.2022
- Noting resident's concerns around provided therapies and assessments/interventions I carried out and relayed them to others (nurse practitioner, senior nurse).
- Carrying out varied wound care management from chronic venous ulcers to pressure injuries and document assessment of wounds, provided intervention and any relevant information.
- Implementing COVID guidelines around IPC and PPE to protect vulnerable population and break chain of infection transmitting microorganisms between residents and their space.
- Utilise Te Wheke to carry out comprehensive health assessment and further create quality improvement project to support and meet residents' needs and enhance their quality of life.
Ward 2a (Kaupapa Ward)
Te Whatu Ora
06.2021 - 08.2021
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes to discuss interventions with physicians.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as medication administration, wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
- Provided space to kōrero with patients and whānau alternative treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options to ensure informed decisions.
- Maintaining calm and open body language with kaumātua and mokopuna as main carers whilst patiently demonstrating safe bed positioning and answering their questions until both myself and whānau are happy.
- Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
Te Whare Maiangiangi (TWM)
Te Whatu Ora
05.2021 - 06.2021
- Identify high-risk patients through observations from patient interaction and notes.
- Utilise four P's to recognise and understand contributing factors to patient's current state.
- Unlearn stigma and discrimination around mental health and be willing, open and compassionate to engage in interaction with patients.
- Be aware of line of communication, allocated areas and safety measures if unsafe at any time.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing -
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Poike, NZ11.2022
Skills
- Professional Responsibility
- Communication
- Reflective
- Interpersonal Relationships
Certification
First Aid Certificate (2022)
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Lumina Talents
07.2024 - Current
District Nursing
Te Whatu Ora
08.2022 - 10.2022
Pacific Island Community (Tauranga) Trust [PICTT]
Community
05.2022 - 06.2022
Medical Day Stay Unit
Te Whatu Ora
03.2022 - 04.2022
Malyon House
Age Residential Care
02.2022 - 03.2022
Ward 2a (Kaupapa Ward)
Te Whatu Ora
06.2021 - 08.2021
Te Whare Maiangiangi (TWM)
Te Whatu Ora
05.2021 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Nursing -
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
First Aid Certificate (2022)
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