I am a third-year nursing student with multiple placement experiences from various fields in aged care settings to acute healthcare. Throughout my placement experience, I acquired basic nursing and communication skills for patient-centred care. I have also worked as a fast food worker for one year, and have achieved high customer service and teamwork skills.
- Making beds and tidying up residents' rooms to create a safe environment.
- Showering for residents who are not able to mobilise themselves and changing pads for incontinence residents.
- Updating their bowel chart to check their bowel movement.
- Assessed and reported pressure injuries on residents.
- Developed skills in pain management of nerve block, patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), and oral pain relief to identify and evaluate patient's pain.
- Educated knee and hip precautions for patients who had total hip and knee replacement.
- Displayed good working relationships in collaborating and communicating with the multidisciplinary team members regarding patient's mobility.
- Developed skills in managing the indwelling urinary catheter and performing the bladder scanner for a trial of void.
- Displayed a Doppler ultrasound and assessed for swelling on the patient's flap site.
- Monitored suture line and removed a closed drain on the patient's neck.
- Gained knowledge about mental disorders and performed mental state exams on the consumers.
- Developed communication skills with mentally unstable adolescents by showing empathy and active listening.
- Actively engaged in team discussion regarding consumer care and discharging planning.
Name: Chantelle Allatt
Phone: 0427 704 768,
Email: chantelle.allatt@health.qld.gov.au
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