Sara Goode
Red Cliffs,VIC
Summary
As a compassionate Clinical Nurse Specialist currently at Princes Court Homes, I am dedicated to the needs of my residents, with a passion for palliative care and making residents comfortable in their end-of-life phase. I am seeking a position where I can use my skills, continue learning, and build on my knowledge of palliative care to become a specialist in the field.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Princes Court Homes
11.2023 - Current
- Maintain pain management program looking at resident’s pain experiences and utilising a holistic approach in the management of their pain in order to provide relief and comfort to each resident
- Liaise and consult with a range of health, allied health and medical practitioners regarding the care of the residents
- Giving registered nurses and enrolled nurses assistance and education on the use of syringe drivers and preparing end of life medications
- Provide leadership to registered nurses, enrolled nurses and personal carers in a positive and supportive way with the focus on resident and staff outcomes
- Undertake and facilitate appropriate documentation including but not limited to assessments, care plans, progress note entries and adverse event reporting
- Follow and promote exceptional infection control practices with residents, visitors and staff and maintain the environment that prevents the spread of infection within the facility
- Providing effective palliative care for residents at the end-of-life phase including providing support to friends/family or significant others as well as staff
- Participation in and actively promoting continuous improvement system including auditing, analyses, benchmarking statistics, project implementation and support of the Quality Coordinator’s role in this area
- Undertaking falls portfolio which includes reviewing all falls thoroughly that happen within the facility
- Chairing monthly falls meeting and providing strategies to reduce the amount of resident falls
Clinical Care Coordinator/Registered Nurse
Royal Freemasons
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Supervision of Nurse and Personal Care Assistants
- Assessing acutely unwell residents
- Providing palliative care to residents who are end of life
- Auditing progress notes, resident of the day, other audits as required
- Attend weekly Team Leader meetings
- Attend monthly Clinical Nurse meetings
- Completing incident reports as required
- Providing support to staff and giving education
- Providing care when short staffed including medication rounds
- Completing staff medication competencies
- Completing staff annual reviews
- Completing care plan reviews
- Attending to quality reports and rectifying issues
- Attending to medication changes post doctors rounds as well as other new indicators for residents as per doctor’s review and instructions
- Female catheters
- Wound care
- Greeting new residents and completing new admissions paperwork, photos, other documentation
Practice Nurse/Nurse in Charge
Family Doctor
11.2020 - 08.2022
- Child immunisations
- Providing person centre care to each individual patient
- Depot and other injections subcutaneously or intramuscularly
- Dealing with patients who may present as an emergency, monitoring observations and calling an ambulance where applicable
- Applying/removing plaster casts
- Preparation of care plans and conducting health assessments for Chronic Disease Management
- Documentation through BP (Best Practice) software
- Assisting Doctors within the practice with minor procedures such as punch, shave, or excision biopsy’s
- Leading COVID 19 clinics to give AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccinations
- Completing relevant training in house and updates such as for covid vaccinations
- Leading annual flu clinics, including off site flu clinics
- Removal of sutures and staples
- Conducting medicals including drug and alcohol testing
- Being present (for male doctor’s) as Chaperone for cervical screenings, breast examinations or other examinations that the patient requires
- Maintaining notice boards around the clinic with differing health promotion topics throughout each year
- Assisting Practice Manager with downloading patient health summary’s
- Maintaining/restocking and tidying Doctor’s rooms as well as checking various equipment to make sure it is all in working order for example thermometers
- Wound dressings and basic wound debridement
- Maintaining hot docs recall system
- Maintaining stock and completing monthly stock orders within allowed budget
- Educating patients
- Rotation of stock within treatment room including medications and sample products
- Sterilisation of instruments after use
- Orientation to the treatment room for new Doctor’s to the practice and educating them on the basics of using best practice if they are not familiar
- Maintaining policy and procedure manual – hard copy and computerised copy
Registered Nurse/Practice Nurse
UFS Dispensary – Super Care Pharmacy Chemist Warehouse Traralgon
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Patient education
- Patient triage
- Wound dressings, basic and complex
- Making referrals and sending patients onto other services such as Emergency Department or Mental Health Services within the local area
- Conducting thorough nursing assessments of the body system that the patient has an issue with, staying within my scope of practice
- Stocktaking
- Patient documentation
Registered Nurse
Latrobe Regional Hospital
10.2019 - 07.2020
- Patient admission and discharge process
- Basic nursing care such as showering/bathing patient’s, feeding patients where necessary, assisting patients with toileting as required
- Mentoring students during student placement
- Administration of patient medication at the bedside as well as signing out schedule 8 and schedule 11 drugs
- Taking part and contributing in regular staff meetings within the ward
- Regularly monitoring and assessing Patient observations
- ECG’s as required
- Completing venepuncture when necessary
- Running intravenous drugs as per drug orders from Doctor
- Assessment of wounds and completing associated wound observation documentation charts
- PICC dressings and other wound dressings
- Palliative care of patients often at the end of life as well as emotional support for families throughout the patient’s journey
- Advocating for Patient’s where necessary for example Doctor review required
- Re-ordering drugs and re-stocking patient bedside draw as required
Education
Masters - Palliative Care
01.2025
Reverse PEPA training -
01.2024
Certificate - High Dependency nursing
01.2020
Graduate Certificate - Acute Care Nursing
01.2020
Bachelor of Nursing -
Federation University
01.2016
Diploma of Nursing -
GippsTAFE
GEP Campus01.2013
Skills
- Leadership in Patient Care
- Analytical Problem-Solving
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Versatile Task Management
- Responsive to Changing Work Environments
Affiliations
- AHPRA
- Palliative Care Australia
- Palliative Care Victoria
- Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
- Australian College of Nursing
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Princes Court Homes
11.2023 - Current
Clinical Care Coordinator/Registered Nurse
Royal Freemasons
10.2022 - 10.2023
Practice Nurse/Nurse in Charge
Family Doctor
11.2020 - 08.2022
Registered Nurse
Latrobe Regional Hospital
10.2019 - 07.2020
Registered Nurse/Practice Nurse
UFS Dispensary – Super Care Pharmacy Chemist Warehouse Traralgon
03.2019 - 07.2021
Masters - Palliative Care
Reverse PEPA training -
Certificate - High Dependency nursing
Graduate Certificate - Acute Care Nursing
Bachelor of Nursing -
Federation University
Diploma of Nursing -
GippsTAFE
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