SHWETHA URALA
Glenfield,NSW
Summary
- Accomplished Intensive Care Registered Nurse with a proven track record at Liverpool and Bankstown Hospital, adept in airway management and advanced life support. Demonstrates exceptional critical thinking and effective communication, ensuring rapid response to patient needs. Skilled in both technical interventions, such as continuous renal replacement therapy, and fostering team collaboration for improved patient outcomes. A passionate teacher with good understanding of main theories of adult learning and their application to teaching practice in healthcare settings.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL
04.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs. Use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care.
- Effective communication and engagement with patients, caregivers, and the multidisciplinary healthcare team are crucial for ensuring responsiveness to care needs.
- Teaching and mentoring University students and supporting new graduates with their transition in to unit.
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
BANKSTOWN HOSPITAL
10.2018 - 04.2022
- Handled ventilator support, feeding tubes and central lines.
- Assisted physicians with bedside procedures, ensuring accurate treatment administration and timely patient recovery.
- Demonstrated advanced critical thinking skills while managing complex clinical situations involving multiple organ systems failures in critically ill patients.
- Administered medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians.
BOWRALHOSPITAL-General/Medical/Surgical Unit
Bowral & District Hospital
02.2017 - 10.2018
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, Blood sugar level and pain level.
- Assisted patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, feeding and mobility.
- Patients whose condition is deteriorating are recognized in a timely manner and appropriate action is taken to escalate care.
- Communicating with physicians and other senior healthcare professionals for creating and evaluating customized care plans
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation protocols.
- Performed comprehensive assessment for delirium using evidence based mental status exam and implementing nursing interventions for acute confusion
- Assessment of skin for pressure injuries, implement and document interventions and prevention strategies.
- Performed assessment of the wound, development of appropriate wound management plan, completion of the wound assessment chart and ongoing re-evaluation of wound management plan.
- Attending educational workshops for enhancing professional and technical knowledge
- Directing,supervising and mentoring student nurses.
REGISTERED NURSE
BLUE HILLS MANOR NURSING HOME
06.2016 - 02.2017
- Patients care including administering s8 medications and wound care.
- Checking blood sugar levels and administering insulin as charted.
- Checking residents on PEG feeds and oxygen.
- Delegated assignments and duties to AINs for enhanced care provision and workflow management.
- Educating residents on malnutrition and proper diet.
- Health emergency responses, including identification of acute deterioration in residents related to falls and infections compounded by co-morbidities
- Attending case conference with resident’s family and multidisciplinary team.
- Following up resident pathology or appointments as needed.
- Completing ACFI documentation and other progress notes.
- Attending GP rounds three days a week
- Attending to all medication changes, removing Webster packs and signing sheets that are not required. Checking s8 drug with another RN everyday.
- Attending to medication Webster pack checks every week.
- Update care plans and complete daily in charge report
- Regularly attended workshops, seminars, and classes to gain insight on drug therapies and general care for geriatric patients.
Education
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING - Critical Care Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
TASMANIA12.2023
BACHELOR OF NURSING - NURSING
WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY
CAMPBELLTOWN04.2016
Skills
- Advanced skills in airway assessment and management, for example, continuous care of an artificial airway such as endotracheal tube and tracheostomy
- Advanced life support level 1
- Cardiac advanced life support
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Continuous renal replacement therapy
- High knowledge skills in pacing and pulmonary artery catheter required after bypass surgery
- Advanced wound management
Accomplishments
- Recognized for outstanding academic achievement over the 2013 calendar year of study and was in the top 10% of the cohort.
- Received high distinction In Evidence based nursing and Anatomy and Physiology subjects and grades of distinction and credits for all subjects in Diploma of critical care nursing degree.
- Having competency in advanced airway management, Renal dialysis, cardiothoracic skills such as pacing after bypass surgery.
computer skills
- Operating system: MS Windows-7
- Application: MS office 97 and above (Word, excel, PowerPoint)
- Application development by using MS Access 97
Personal information
o Residential status-Australian Citizen
o Languages known- English, Hindi and Kannada
Referees
Rosemarie Garcia
Clinical Nurse Educator
Liverpool Hospital
Rosemarie.Garcia@health.nsw.gov.au
Mariepaz Hazell
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Liverpool Hospital
Mariepaz.Hazell@health.nsw.gov.au
Timeline
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL
04.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
BANKSTOWN HOSPITAL
10.2018 - 04.2022
BOWRALHOSPITAL-General/Medical/Surgical Unit
Bowral & District Hospital
02.2017 - 10.2018
REGISTERED NURSE
BLUE HILLS MANOR NURSING HOME
06.2016 - 02.2017
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING - Critical Care Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
BACHELOR OF NURSING - NURSING
WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY
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