Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
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RAVI RAJ K. DHILLON

Cranbourne

Summary

Dedicated and compassionate Grade 5 Registered Nurse with over 10 years of experience, serving as an Infection Prevention and Control Lead for 4 years, and also as a Clinical Nurse Educator in age care. Deeply passionate about delivering exceptional care to elderly residents, prioritizing their well-being and maintaining rigorous infection control standards. Committed to fostering a supportive and enriching learning environment for nursing staff. Expertise lies in providing high-quality dementia care and palliative care, as well as developing and implementing personalized care plans. Takes pride in mentoring nursing staff on all aspects of nursing, ensuring the highest level of patient care.

Recently completed Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Now seeking and opportunity as Nursing Teacher to utilise expertise in both clinical practice and curriculum development to enhance nursing education and patient care.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IPC Lead & Clinical Nurse Educator (since Nov 24)

Opal HealthCare
04.2020 - Current

• Implementing Infection control strategies to continuously improve infection control standards.

• Monitor antibiotic usage at Care Community. Prepare and publish monthly report with trends.

  • Preparing presentation slides on topics such as skin

care, incident management, antimicrobial stewardship to educate nursing staff on clinical gaps.

• Completing staff’s annual competencies.

• Educating team on medication management when any incident occurs.

• Running monthly educational session on clinical topics.

• Successfully managing outbreaks such as COVID-19 and gastrointestinal.


After Hours Coordinator

Opal HealthCare at Chelsea Manor Care Community
03.2019 - Current
  • Deliver high quality care to residents with various diagnosis while following organisation's policies and procedures and Aged Care Standards.
  • Liaison with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality and person-centred care to the residents.
  • Regularly assess clients' individual needs, implement care plans, evaluate care delivery, document outcomes and provide handovers.
  • Acted in a Clinical Care Coordinator role on numerous occasions in the absence of a Clinical Care Coordinator at Chelsea Manor.
  • Demonstrate positive leadership qualities while managing a team of registered nurses, enrolled nursed and personal care staff and provide clinical guidance to ensure that they have the information, confidence, resources and credentials to deliver these plans.
  • Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
  • Medication management.
  • Delivering culturally competent palliative care to residents with diverse needs.
  • Manage rosters during after-hours in a coordinator role.
  • Extensive experience in managing conflict and resolution practices with staff.


Registered Nurse

BlueCross Aged Care, Grossard Court
02.2017 - 04.2019
  • Medication management.
  • Wound care, diabetes management, indwelling catheter care and troubleshooting and PEG feeds
  • Dementia Care of residents living in dementia specific unit.
  • Quality palliative care to the residents with varying terminal illnesses.
  • Team Leader of junior RNs, EENs and PCAs to ensure delivery of safe and high-quality care.
  • Care Plan building and review.
  • Prepared for and attended accreditation.
  • Collaboration with allied health care team to ensure appropriate quality care is delivered to the residents.

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

BlueCross Aged Care, Grossard Court
03.2015 - 03.2017
  • Administration and documentation of medication.
  • Wound care, catheter care and giving feeds through PEG feed as required
  • Supervision of Personal Care Assistants
  • Attending to the queries of the Residents and their families
  • Arranging medical appointments for the Residents
  • Performing all assessments such as medication administration assessment, behaviour assessment etc
  • Vital signs on Residents.
  • Apply practical intervention procedures for behavioural problems due to brain change.


Personal Care Worker

Regis Aged Care
09.2013 - 02.2015


  • Assist residents with shower and personal care.
  • Assist resident with feeding.
  • Followed strategies of care plan to manage behaviours of dementia specific residents.
  • Observe and report any changes in resident's condition and report to Team leader.
  • Perform basic procedures such as taking blood pressure and checking temperature.

Senior Executive Operations Officer

DLF Pramerica Life Insurance
02.2010 - 06.2013
  • Handling all the queries of Clients pertaining to their policies & processing all sorts of Request like Surrender Request, Partial Withdrawal, Fund Switch etc & have won National and International trips as a gift for giving excellent customer service to clients.

Customer Service Officer

Tata AIG Life Insurance Co. Ltd
11.2007 - 02.2010
  • Handling all the queries of clients related to their policies and processing all sort of request like surrender request, partial withdrawal, fund switch etc.
  • Preparing all sorts of data on MS excel and MS word like Issuance, Pending, Submission etc. of the region.
  • Delivering training to Unit Mangers on Underwriting Guidelines and Application Form filling.
  • Looking after admin of branch.

Branch Support Officer

HDFC Standard Life Insurance
07.2004 - 11.2007
  • Handled the stock of the Region which includes twelve branches of Punjab
  • Had been clearing the payments of Vendors of the whole Region
  • Handling petty cash of the branch.

Education

Certificate IV - Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE40122)

Monash University
Online
11-2024

Infection Prevention And Control Lead Course -

ACIPC
Online
04.2021

Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing

Holmesglen College of TAFE
Moorabbin, VIC
01.2017

Diploma of Nursing -

Holmesglen College of TAFE
Moorabbin, VIC
01.2015

Master of Arts -

Guru Nanak Dev University
Kapurthala, India
06.2004

Bachelor of Arts -

Guru Nanak Dev University
Kapurthala, India
06.2002

Skills

  • EffectiveCommunication
  • Audits and quality improvement
  • Education
  • Resident Care Assessments
  • Microsoft Office
  • Compassionate and Caring
  • Complex Problem-Solving
  • Time Management
  • Infection Control Procedures
  • Employee Performance Evaluations
  • Team Leadership

Accomplishments

    • Won Starfish Award for contributing to clinical management at Chelsea Manor during absence of Clinical Care Coordinator.

    • Won Starfish Award for successfully leading team in IPC at Chelsea Manor during COVID-19 outbreak.

    • Developed a guide on resident incident management to improve resident incident reporting and educate staff at Chelsea Manor.

    • Successfully designed and implemented an educational project on improvement of skin care and anti-fungal usage at Chelsea Manor. This project was selected for a poster presentation at the annual international conference held by ACIPC in 2022 which I attended as a clinical lead representative of my organisation.

    • Winner of the Dean's Award on completion of Diploma of Nursing with high distinction.

    • Completed Bachelor of Nursing with 89% marks.

    • Other achievements can be shared upon request.

Additional Information

  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    Won Starfish Award for contributing to clinical management at Chelsea Manor during absence of Clinical Care Coordinator.
  • Won Starfish Award for successfully leading team in IPC at Chelsea Manor during COVID-19 outbreak.
    • Developed a guide on resident incident management and trained staff at Chelsea Manor.
    • Successfully designed and completed a project on improvement of skin and anti-fungal usage at Chelsea Manor. This was selected for a poster presentation at the annual international conference held by ACIPC in 2022 which I attended as a clinical lead representative of BlueCross.
    • Winner of the Dean's Award on completion of Diploma of Nursing.
    • Completed Bachelor of Nursing with 89% marks.
    • Whilst working overseas as customer service executive, I was successful in winning national level awards for excellence in Customer Service.
    • Other achievements can be shared upon request.

Certification

  • Current Victorian Working with Children Check
  • First Aid and CPR
  • Current Police Clearance
  • Current Driver's Licence
  • Manual Handling
  • Graduate Certificate – GEM's Brain Change Model for Dementia Care

References

Tarah Sasis

Acting Clinical Manager, Chelsea Manor

Contact No. 0425 009 453

Email id: tarah.sasis@opalhealthcare.com.au


Sukhdeep Dhillon (Sana)

Acting Clinical Care Coordinator

Contact No. 0469 652 820

Email ID: sana.dhillon@opalhealthcare.com.au


Twinkle Kaur

General Manager, Chelsea Manor

Contact No. 0406 696 907

Email ID: twinkle.kaur@opalhealthcare.com.au

Timeline

IPC Lead & Clinical Nurse Educator (since Nov 24)

Opal HealthCare
04.2020 - Current

After Hours Coordinator

Opal HealthCare at Chelsea Manor Care Community
03.2019 - Current

Registered Nurse

BlueCross Aged Care, Grossard Court
02.2017 - 04.2019

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

BlueCross Aged Care, Grossard Court
03.2015 - 03.2017

Personal Care Worker

Regis Aged Care
09.2013 - 02.2015

Senior Executive Operations Officer

DLF Pramerica Life Insurance
02.2010 - 06.2013

Customer Service Officer

Tata AIG Life Insurance Co. Ltd
11.2007 - 02.2010

Branch Support Officer

HDFC Standard Life Insurance
07.2004 - 11.2007

Certificate IV - Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE40122)

Monash University

Infection Prevention And Control Lead Course -

ACIPC

Bachelor of Nursing - Nursing

Holmesglen College of TAFE

Diploma of Nursing -

Holmesglen College of TAFE

Master of Arts -

Guru Nanak Dev University

Bachelor of Arts -

Guru Nanak Dev University
RAVI RAJ K. DHILLON