Ryan Nobes

• Administered psychotropic medications, monitoring for side effects, effectiveness, and making adjustments as necessary to optimize treatment outcomes.
• Coordinated discharge planning with patients, families, and community providers to ensure continuity of care and successful transition back into the community.
• Educated patients and family members about medical conditions and mental health, medications, treatments and preventive measures.
• Provided crisis intervention services during psychiatric emergencies, ensuring patient safety through effective de-escalation techniques.
• Enhanced patient safety by conducting thorough assessments, identifying potential risks, and initiating interventions as needed.
• Assessed patients' physical and mental status by analyzing complaints and symptoms.
• Conducted ongoing assessments to track patient progress, evaluate treatment effectiveness, and modify plans as needed to achieve desired outcomes.
• Supported new graduate nurses in their orientation process by providing guidance and education on clinical practice, MSE, psychotropic medication, Therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques within mental health nursing.
• Created and provide tools such as the Hainsworth daily planner aim at new grad and experience nurses to help with time management while transitioning to a new ward routine.
• Review, edited and seek feedback for workplace documents such as the First aid arrangements document.

• Improved on skills such as clinical reasoning, clinical knowledge and A-G assessments.

• Continuing to improve and work within a team environment, always progressing my time management and delegating skills.

• Able to worked and maintained calm under pressure within high stress situations such as Code Blues and Code Blacks.

• Responded rapidly and efficiently to deteriorating patient condition and have been able to returned them to baseline

•Assessed patient ongoing health and treatments. Used this to create care plans and coordinated care.

• Gain increase knowledge on medication. Administered oral and IV medication under the 5 rights.

• During this time I’ve also gain experience On placement at the University of Notre Dame in Blacktown Palliative care ward, Nepean orthopedic ward, Prince of Wales emergency department and Mental health placement at Sutherland Hospital.

• Worked effectively within a team environment to reach clinical outcomes.
• Developed time management skills within a hospital environment and improved on clinical skills along and increased medical knowledge.
• Developed critical thinking skills
• Built therapeutic relationships, provided education and advocated for patients and families under my care.

• Worked and performed task under the supervision of an RN

• Recording ECGs, removing intravenous cannulas, recording vital signs, neurological observations.

• Developed good time management skills. Including prioritising and planning skills obtained through working with many patients and nurses at once.