Rebecca (Bec) Nowland

• Conduct pre brief lectures and clinical sessions with hands-on training on various topics. These include: intravenous cannulation and pathology collection, intravenous therapy administration, indwelling catheters, wound management, basic life support, lifestyle risk assessments, patient simulations, ECG workshops, airway and respiratory management in acute illness.
• Provide group tutoring sessions where skills are demonstrated and students are guided through these clinical skills with the Medicine Program Tutor.
• Participation in developing and reviewing lessons plans and tutorial content in line with current best practice.
• Work in conjunction with the simulation team of critical care physicians and hold interactive days for students who experience simulated professionals with acute conditions.
• Evaluated student performance through exams, practical assessments and feedback sessions.

• Demonstrated strong clinical reasoning skills when assessing patient conditions, initiating appropriate interventions, and escalating concerns to physicians as needed.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction by delivering compassionate, culturally sensitive care tailored to individual needs and preferences.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to develop comprehensive care plans for patients presenting with diverse medical conditions in the Emergency Department.
• Performed primary and secondary assessment on adult and pediatric patients
• Management and care of patients requiring non-invasive and invasive ventilation
• 10 years experience in Airway, Drugs and Circulation roles in the resuscitation setting, both adult and pediatric
• Experience in cardioversion and pacing
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• prepared and administered inotropes and other resuscitation drugs
• Assessment and management of burns
• Set up and care of arterial lines, central venous lines and intercostal catheters and Ability to analyze arterial and venous blood gasses
• Competent in cannulation and collection of pathology

● Completed a 12 month postgraduate program in Intensive Care Nursing and caring for the acute spinal patient

● Facilitated new student nurses to the Intensive care unit

● Confidently care for new admissions into ICU including patients with invasive and non invasive ventilation using the SERVO-U and PB840 ventilators

● Set up monitored life support equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, transducer, pressure lines, oxygen delivery devices, mechanical ventilators and pulse oximeter

● Titrate medications including inotropes and anesthesia

● Monitor patients’ progress and alert treating physicians when sudden changes occur that calls for emergency intervention

● Confidently transport ventilated patients for urgent diagnostic treatment

● Changed dressings, bathed patients and provided post mortem care

● Deliver regular updates to patients and family members

● Evaluated patient lab data results to determine whether an emergency intervention was necessary

● Team Lead, facilitating the flow of patients and managing staff

● Provide nursing care to elective outpatients and emergency STEMI patients

● Competent in scrubbing and scouting nursing role for all procedures including coronary angiograms/ angioplasty’s, electrophysiology studies, radiofrequency ablation, insertion of pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, biventricular devices and carotid angioplasty’s

● Care and removal of arterial sheaths and arterial hemodynamic monitoring

● Assisting insertion of intra-aortic balloon pump and managing ongoing care.

● Manage patients requiring transvenous cardiac pacing

● Care for patients post procedures

● Manage patients with chest pain

● Insertion of male and female indwelling catheters – adult and pediatric

● Venipuncture and intra-venous cannula insertion

● I chose to go on a 4 month secondment to consolidate my learning and experience community patient care.

• Perform assessment on post acute cardiac patients

● Recognise the deficit in education and facilitate in the modification of lifestyle habits.

● Case manage a cardiac rehabilitation gym class

● Work collaboratively with healthcare colleagues to plan, develop, deliver and evaluate evidence- based educational programs for staff and patients.

● Provide care for patients with post acute wound care including VAC dressings and PICC line dressings and post surgical wounds.