Padmaraj Selvaraj
Craigieburn,Australia
Summary
A versatile, motivated, and dedicated Registered Nurse, with five years of immersive clinical practice alongside an additional five years of thriving managerial roles within the NDIS sector. My clinical background encompasses work in diverse settings such as the emergency department, operating theatre, acute, and surgical wards.
Currently, for the past five years, working as both Manager and community nurse within a NDIS company, showcasing not only clinical expertise but also leadership skills and technical acumen. I possess excellent communication skills, including adept problem-solving, conflict resolution, and negotiation abilities. These skills have proven invaluable in effectively engaging with patients and contributing collaboratively within multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Community Registered Nurse/Team Leader
Arete Care
Heidelberg, Australia
10.2021 - Current
- Develop a nursing care plan in consultation with the multidisciplinary team and evaluate the outcome
- Administer medications and evaluate the outcome
- Participate and contribute to occupational health and safety activities to ensure a safe work environment for residents, family, and colleagues
- Monitoring the residents’ condition and assessing their needs to provide the best possible care and advice
- Observing and interpreting the resident’s symptoms and communicating them to their doctors
- To let team leaders know about their duties and responsibilities and the expectations that they are expected to meet
- To fill in the documents and keep the compliance part up to date
- Proper handling of the monthly expenses and the way we keep smooth financial movement
- Regular reporting to the head office and giving an update on the staff and client
- Staff rostering & allocation
- Interview applicants for positions
- Providing training & assistance to staff
- Regular monitoring of client’s medicines and relevant things
- Ensuring smooth running of operations
- Keep the track of client’s appointments and guide support workers to assist client with those appointments.
Community Registered Nurse/Team leader
Goodwill Healthcare
Deer Park, Australia
09.2018 - 07.2021
- Provide direct professional and practical leadership, mentoring and coaching to staff on person centred planning
- Shift Coordination/rostering
- Clinical Care and supervision of clients with multiple and complex disabilities
- Maintain professional competence and knowledge and apply this expertise in the provision of service and problem solving in ongoing client care
- Ensure high level of documentation and record keeping, maintaining accuracy and legibility
- Collaboration with multi-disciplinary team stakeholders in the provision of care coordination
- Contribute to the assessment of clients using all available resources and information including nursing history; self-care abilities; total needs and risk factors where appropriate
- Communicate with all staff, clients, families, and other key personnel to provide information, advice and guidance related to the health status of clients
- Develop, implement, monitor, and review individual nursing care plans
- Completing paper works and daily reports on client welfare
- Liaising with other departments and agencies for safety and welfare of client
- Supporting client in going to appointments and taking medication as per prescription.
Peri-operative Registered Nurse
St: Vincent Private Hospital
Toowoomba, Australia
10.2014 - 07.2017
- Participate in extensive post-op care with multiple problems
- Management of operation theatre as a circulating nurse
- Assisting the scrub nurse in doing procedure
- To make sure that procedure package is sterile & correct in numbers
- Manage and maintained operating room and nursing care
- Assist before, after and during the operations
- Worked as scrub and circulatory nurse for General- surgical, Orthopaedic, Gynaec and E.N.T cases.
Registered Nurse
Sunshine Coast Uni Private Hospital
Birtinya, Australia
03.2014 - 06.2014
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
Registered Nurse
Mareeba District Hospital
Mareeba, Australia
02.2011 - 02.2014
- Demonstrates and promotes professional standards of practice and conduct
- Monitoring the appropriateness and effectiveness of clinical care
- Responsibilities in relation to a clinical patient load and direct care
- Assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated nursing care for assigned patients.
- Administered medications and treatments according to physician orders.
- Monitored vital signs, administered injections, and provided assistance with medical procedures.
- Documented patient progress notes accurately and efficiently in the electronic medical record system.
- Collaborated with physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professionals to develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
- Participated in multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient care plans.
Peri-operative Registered Nurse
Lakshmi Hospital
Kerala, India
03.2010 - 02.2011
- Participate in extensive post-op care with multiple problems
- Management of operation theatre as a circulating nurse
- Assisting the scrub nurse in doing procedure
- Count the needles, instruments, sponges, before surgery, during and at the end of the procedure
- To make sure that procedure package is sterile & correct in numbers
- Responsible for the performance of the activities such as preoperative, peri operative and postoperative
- Manage and maintained operating room and nursing care
- Assist before, after and during the operations
- Responsible for circulatory nurse roles
- Responsible for Recovery room
- Worked as scrub and circulatory nurse for General- surgical, Orthopaedic, Gynaec and E.N.T cases.
Registered Nurse
Harsha Hospital
Bangalore, India
03.2008 - 03.2010
- Effective and appropriate nursing care to patients with chronic and terminal illness, making nursing care plans to meet the nursing and health needs of patients
- Ward management including handover and takeover the patients and ward equipments and supply
- Perform life saving techniques such as CPR and Defibrillation in emergency conditions
- Administer medications and assist the patient in feeding, positioning and basic care needs
- Effective management of time based on the prioritized needs of the patients
- Demonstrate proper execution of general nursing service care in the areas of vital signs, ECG, phlebotomy, catheters, feeding tubes, nebulizers, IV and central lines
- Wound management and stoma care, suturing and suture removal
- Provide information and support to patients and family members regarding condition, prognosis and treatment program.
Skills
- Clinical Leadership
- Policy Enforcement
- Quality Improvement
- Care Coordination
- Staff Development
- Medical Documentation
- Critical Care
- Case Management
- Nursing staff leadership
- Culturally-sensitive care
- Diabetes management
- Emergency Response
- Patient Management
- Wound Care
- Acute and rehabilitative care
- Medication and IV administration
- Emergency Care
- Geriatric treatment knowledge
- IV setup
- Bi-lingual in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil
- Patient Evaluation
- Feeding Assistance
- Direct Patient Care
- ELNEC training (End-Of-Life-Care)
- Compassion and Empathy
Areas Of Clinical Expertise
- Operation Theatre
- Emergency & Trauma Care Department
- Acute Surgical & Medical Ward
- Aged Care
- Community registered nurse with NDIS disability services.
Professional Development
- 2023 – Recognising & Responding to Clinical Deterioration.
- 2023 - Acute Care Refresher Program.
- 2023 - Advanced clinical assessment and management of the critically unwell person
- 2024 – CPR & First aid & Basic life support
- 2023 - Medication administration – principles & practice
- 2019 – The principles of Documentation
- 2018 – Fundamentals of Acute Care
- 2018 – Foundation of pharmacology & medication administration
- 2017 – PEG feed
- 2017 – Manual Handling Technique
- 2017 - Care of clients with dementia
- 2017 - Care of clients with challenging behaviour
Professional Education And Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science, Karnataka, India, 12/2002 – 12/2008
- Certificate III in Individual Support, The Learning Collaborative, Brisbane, Australia, 02/2018 – 08/2018
Certification
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - NMW0001631081
Clinical And Nursing Procedure Skills
- Highly skilled in managing patients on a Cardiac Monitor.
- Skilled in assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, coordinating, and managing patient care in keeping with facility and hospital standards.
- In-depth knowledge of communicating and collaborating with patients, family members, physicians and other health care professionals in achieving quality in patient care
- Thorough understanding of assessing patients to recognize suitable nursing interventions.
- Comprehensive knowledge of providing efficient patient care
- Able to handle serious situations in a opportune and safe manner
- Substantial knowledge of administering medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
- Knowledge of assisting in surgery and other medical procedures
- Hands-on experience in recognizing the existence of intellectual differences and utilizing proper resources obtainable throughout the hospital.
- Well versed in delegating appropriate assignments to LPNs and unlicensed workers
- Able to make the most of leadership skills to efficiently direct other nursing staff
- Technically sound in all psychomotor interventions when administering care to patients
- Hands-on experience in handling diagnostic and imaging equipment
- Demonstrated ability to train and counsel new nurses.
- Proven leadership skills in team communications to create a consistent and productive environment.
- Working knowledge of healthcare software including Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Extremely proficient in entering, accessing, and retrieving patient data, and creating customized reports.
References
- Geo Emmanuel, 0444 537 263, Arete Care, Area Manager/supervisor, geo.emmanuel@aretecare.com.au
- Jana Pauline, 03 7046 4690, Arete Care, Senior care manager/senior team leader, jana@aretecare.com.au
Timeline
Community Registered Nurse/Team Leader
Arete Care
10.2021 - Current
Community Registered Nurse/Team leader
Goodwill Healthcare
09.2018 - 07.2021
Peri-operative Registered Nurse
St: Vincent Private Hospital
10.2014 - 07.2017
Registered Nurse
Sunshine Coast Uni Private Hospital
03.2014 - 06.2014
Registered Nurse
Mareeba District Hospital
02.2011 - 02.2014
Peri-operative Registered Nurse
Lakshmi Hospital
03.2010 - 02.2011
Registered Nurse
Harsha Hospital
03.2008 - 03.2010
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