Riley Thorburn

• Tending to Hospital inpatients including monitoring vital signs, administering medication, Intra-venous and urinary catheter placement, use and care, central line use and care, oesophageal tube use and care, communicating with vets regarding patients care/treatment plan.
• Triage of incoming patients and responsible for initial liaising with clients.
• Initial treatments of patients including i/v placement, initial diagnostic testing, initial medication administration, and initial client interactions.
• Minimal reception duties
• General Cleaning and restocking.
• Assisting in radiography and ultrasonography.
• Advanced management of medical cases
• Confidently assist with advanced emergency procedures

• Generated and nurtured client relationships.
• Offered general house sitting duties including home nursing with specialist competency.
• Created a website, branding an advertising for my business.
• Negotiated with high value clients to retain

• Tending to Hospital inpatients including monitoring vital signs, administering medication, i/v and urinary catheter use and care, central line use and care, oesophageal tube use and care, communicating with vets regarding patients care/treatment plan.
• Initial treatments of patients including triage, i/v placement, initial diagnostic testing, initial medication administration, and initial client interactions.
• Minimal reception duties
• General Cleaning and restocking.
• Use and maintenance of diagnostic and treatment equipment including use of, syringe drivers, IV fluid pumps, Idexx haematology and biochemistry analysers, Abaxis haematology and biochemistry analysers, pulse oximetry and ECG.
• Assisting in radiography and ultrasonography.
• Advanced management of medical cases
• Advanced management of surgical cases
• Confidently assist with advanced emergency procedures

• General nursing duties including: monitoring inpatients, Bandage/intravenous care, administering medication, communicating with vets throughout treatment of patients.
• Surgical nursing duties including: Pre-GA vitals, Blood collection and testing, filling out appropriate paperwork, Calculating medication doses, giving s/c, i/m, i/v injections, placing I/V catheters, inducing patients, intubation, monitoring and managing patients under anaesthesia, Recovering and extubation of patients, Post-op care.
• Consult nursing duties: Assisting vets with restraining patients for examination, running laboratory tests including in house bloods, urine, faeces, slide preparation. Performing nursing consults including: Oral health exams, Nutrition consults, post-op checks, pre-desexing puppy checks. Extensive client communication regarding preventative care. Assisting receptionists with advice regarding particular cases.
• Afterhours nursing: triaging critically ill patients, performing prescribed/instructed diagnostics and treatments unassisted including: Radiographs, placing i/v catheters, blood draws, administering medication with increased risk of adverse incidents eg. Tick antivenom, Snake antivenom.
• Guiding and supervising student and inexperienced nurses.
• General cleaning and sterilising duties.
• Hosted training sessions at clinic meetings regarding a variety of topics.
• Independently cared for the laboratory equipment and stock levels including troubleshooting and general maintenance of precision equipment.

Took in orders from customers.

Problem solved with customers to fit a dish to their special dietary requirements.

Prepared bowls for the chefs and communicated to them "adequately" in a broken mandarin/english mashup.

General washing up/cleaning and restocking