Smitha Jose

• Responsibilities: Leadership, Team management, Mentoring junior staff, Staff allocation and Co-ordination
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans.
• Responded to patient emergencies to provide prompt and correct intervention .
• Educated patients and families to increase understanding of condition and best ways to manage.
• Participated in quality improvement initiatives to improve patient care outcomes.
• Demonstrated knowledge of technical procedures and proper equipment use.
• Provided clinical oversight and support to health care teams.
• Implemented and monitored infection control protocols.
• Monitored clinical staff performance and provided feedback.
• Supervised professional and paraprofessional nursing staff and delegated tasks to maintain continuum of care.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans
• Utilized evidence-based practice to assess and provide care for patients.
• Administered medications and treatments to manage patient's condition.

Review post ICU discharged patients in the ward

Attend met calls and code blue.

Assess the patient who is deteriorating and escalate the management of care appropriately.

Help to prevent complications and further deterioration by reviewing the patients on concerns in the ward.

Educating the RN,EN in the ward.

• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess, plan and implement evidence-based patient care.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare team to deliver optimal patient outcomes.
• Team leading.
• Worked with intubated and ventilated patients, monitoring and reporting on conditions to maintain stats within optimal levels.
• Performed timely resuscitation and stabilization of acutely ill patients.
• Responded rapidly to critical codes to coordinate stabilization treatments and restore vital functions.

• Ipswich ICU also worked in ED -Pooled from ICU
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent, and geriatric ICU patients.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other conditions.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, dialysis and other procedures.
• Attend MET/code blue.

• The Westmead Hospital has a 24 bed adult ICU
• The unit provides specialised care to patients with many different surgical, medical or respiratory problems, as well as patients with neurological problems, and trauma patients with major injuries, by providing all types of monitoring, specialised procedures and treatment
• Facilitating junior nurses and student nurses.
• Experienced in caring for patient on Balloon Pump ,ECMO,Nitric oxide.

• The unit provides specialised care to patients with many different surgical, medical or respiratory problems, as well as patients with neurological problems, and trauma patients with major injuries, by providing all types of monitoring, specialised procedures and treatment
• Rotation in ICU and HDU and the responsibility involves assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, maintaining patient and staff safety at all times within legislation guidelines and policies
• Taking Care Of Patient on ventilator, Weaning Patient from ventilator, extubating, drug Administration, care of Patient on Dialysis
• Basic Nursing care
• Communication With Family. Meeting their Psychological Needs etc. Facilitate junior staff nurses and students.

• St.James's hospital is an academic teaching hospital
• It is a 600-bed hospital
• Worked in ICU and HDU and the responsibility involves assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, maintaining patient and staff safety at all times within legislation guidelines and policies
• Facilitating junior staff nurses and students
• Experience on different kinds of patients with multiorgan failure, heart problem, and liver problems
• Dialysis
• Other experience includes collecting blood, assessing ABG, managing ventilator, medication administration includes inotropes and other cardiac medicines etc
• Other responsibilities are to provide basic hygienic care and provide psychological support to the patient and the family.

• Time – 40 hours p/w
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Managed elements of patient care from admission to discharge or transfer to other units.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behaviour to discuss treatment with physicians.

40 hours p/, To provide care for patients required medical and surgical problems.

• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.