Song Ci Victoria Huang

• Collaborated efficiently with nurses in an environment with high demands through high organisation and effective communication.
• Protected patient's health by detecting clinical red flags by conducting thorough and detailed assessments.
• Contributed to providing higher accuracy assessment of patients by collaborating effectively with healthcare professionals, informing them of patient's condition.
• Adapted effectively according to the needs of the nurses on the wards to enable efficient nursing care.
• Leading other student nurses and educating proper manual handling skills.

Development of organisation, aseptic technique, assessment and critical thinking skills by rotating through the anaesthetic, scrub, scout, and recovery nurse role.

• Prioritised and answered patient's needs by conducting and analysing comprehensive assessments, including post-operative vital signs, neurovascular, FESS and pain assessments.
• Effectively reassured patients through therapeutically communicated to them before and after surgery.
• Achieved patient safety by assisting nurses in safely managing their patient's airway, organising appropriate airways and monitoring equipment according to their health condition, personal characteristics and the type of surgery, conducting counts with scrub and scout nurse, opening sterile equipment with aseptic technique, and conducting pre-operative and post-operative checklist.

Consolidation of prioritisation, time management, organisational and particularly wound cleansing, management and documenting skills.

• Delivered care with a supervised nurse efficiently and effectively by prioritising patient visits according to their health condition, preferences, location, and time needed to deliver care, as well as planning travel time, materials, and time required to care for each patient.
• Effectively evaluated care delivered to patients through conducting scheduled reviews, which included patients' physical, mental, social, environmental, income and housing conditions to be assessed.
• Promoted patient safety by assisting a supervised nurse in escalating a patient's unwitnessed fall in the community
• Improved techniques of conducting multiple simple and complex wound dressings through reflection and taking nurse's advice.
• Promoted continuity of care by documenting wound charts accurately.
• Preserve patients' dignity by promoting comfort through attending to hygienic and pressure area care when providing palliative care.

Development of confidence in caring for a patient independently. Communication skills are enhanced with paediatric patients, family members and carers, and respiratory assessment skills are consolidated. Conducting practice according to policies and guidelines is also further reinforced.

• Alleviated patient's fear during clinical procedures through distraction techniques when conducting clinical procedures with children.
• Eased family members and carers worry about the patient by communicating the patient's health information and plans.
• Delivered safe and effective patient care through researching and following policies and guidelines to understand how to provide safe and effective patient care.
• Improved respiratory assessment techniques to enhance assessment accuracy and inform patient health plans and care

An increased understanding of specific assessment and care under the cardiology ward is achieved. Increased knowledge regarding the protocols and people involved in cardiac arrest events is also gained.

• Comforted a distressed family member who was present at a cardiac arrest event through empathy and therapeutic communication.
• Ensured the family member's safety by completing vital signs, notifying a nurse, and an electrocardiogram (ECG) when they exhibited signs of clinical deterioration due to distress.
• Developed new assessment skills specific to patients with cardiac conditions undergoing cardiac procedures such as deflated TR bands and conducted neurovascular observations.

Relevant knowledge and skills to take care of the mental health patient with higher acuity are learned, developing de-escalation skills, documenting care levels 1 and 2, and learning about the alcohol withdrawal scale and electroconvulsive therapy procedure.

• Diffused conflict between two patients through using de-escalation skills and collaborating with nurse.
• Ensured patient-centred care by further understanding patients' health goals through conducting consumer wellness plans.
• Complied towards nursing legal and ethical requirements by respecting patients' decisions, such as refusing to take medication.

Protocols relating to medication administration and donning appropriate PPE are meticulously followed during placement at the infection control ward.

• Maintained a safe working environment for healthcare professionals and promoted patient safety by complying with infection protocols, such as donning appropriate PPE and maintaining hand hygiene.
• Improved techniques for priming the IV line, setting up infusion pumps, and administering subcutaneous and intravenous drugs according to the Australian injectables handbook via peripheral cannula under nurses' supervision.

Practised and consolidated verbal and non-verbal therapeutic communication skills such as active listening, reflecting patient's feelings and content, eye contact, and maintaining an open posture.

• Empowered patients to gain autonomy in their own care by advocating their preferences.
• Supported patient's mental well-being through participating and engaging in their group therapy session.
• Supported patient's mental well-being by actively listening to their feelings and concerns.
• Achieving patient safety and continuity of care is achieved by documenting patients' MSE and care level plans.

Achieved and observed various nursing skills, including witnessing the changing of a Vac dressing, practising multiple wound dressing and medication administration, and continued to improve in manual handling, such as providing pressure area care and bed washes.

• Prevented patients from further deteriorating clinically by analysing patients' current assessments and previous assessment trends.
• Maintained safe nursing practice by adhering to 5 rights and 3 checks when practising administering oral medications under nurses' supervision.
• Excelled in using the correct techniques when conducting bed washes and pressure area care for patients.

Developed the habit of reflecting on personal practice, enhanced observation skills, and continued to develop additional fundamental nursing skills, including mobilising patients safely through practising correct techniques and using relevant aids.

• Promoted patient holistic care by demonstrating high observation skills, such as noticing sudden clinical deterioration in patients.
• Enhanced confidence in fundamental nursing skills such as manual handling skills and assisting in patient’s activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Developed introspection by reflecting on communication techniques with patients to enhance clearer communication and patient-centred and respectful care.

Familiarised and adapted to the nursing role. Gained confidence by slowly developing fundamental nursing skills.

• Achieved patient safety by learning and consolidating skills to conduct an A-G assessment and head-to-toe assessment accurately
• Promoted continuity of care through demonstrating effective communication, such as using the ISBAR format and documenting patients’ observations and notes on eMR.