Usha Rajashekar Reddy
Officer
Summary
Experienced with patient care, clinical assessments, and medical documentation. Utilizes strong interpersonal skills to foster patient trust and enhance care delivery. Track record of maintaining accurate health records and implementing effective care strategies.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Incharge RN
Cardina Community aged care
02.2024 - Current
- Assessment: Conduct comprehensive assessments of residents' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Care Planning: Develop, implement, and evaluate individualised nursing care plans.
- Treatments & Interventions: Administer medications, provide wound care, monitor vital signs, and manage complex health conditions.
- Work collaboratively with doctors, allied health professionals, and other team members to coordinate care.
- Supervise, mentor, and delegate tasks to enrolled nurses and other care workers, ensuring appropriate skill levels are used.
- Maintain overall accountability for the quality and safety of care provided.
- Provide information and support to residents and their families regarding treatment and care.
- Participate in health education activities and promote health and illness prevention among residents.
- Engage in ongoing professional development to maintain contemporary knowledge and skills.
- Ensure occupational health and safety policies are followed to maintain a safe environment.
CNS (Clinical Nurse Specialist)
Eastern Health
03.2020 - Current
- Ensures clinical interventions are evidence-based and consistent with policy, standard and clinical practice guidelines prescribed by the organization.
- Effective usage of EMR for patient admission, documentation, medication administration and patient discharge.
- Conducting extensive head to toe admission assessment, falls risk, 4AT and pressure risk of patient when admitted to ward and documenting the same in EMR.
- Updating communication boards, checking monitors and ventilators. Recording vital observations and escalating(MET call) in case of patient deterioration. Assessing patients along with the medical team and providing clinical intervention to stabilise the patient and provide post care as advised by the medical team.
- Providing CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for unresponsive patients, and assisting the care providing team with preparing suctions, medications and intubation procedures when required.
- Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide delivery of safe evidence-based patient care. Acts as patients advocate, assess patients and families level of understanding and provides required education.
- Conducts thorough assessments of patients' physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs to identify life-limiting illnesses and developing symptoms.
- Develops goal-oriented care plans in collaboration with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team.
- Regularly reviews and evaluates patient progress, adjusting goals and care preferences as needed.
- Acts as a key point of contact for patients and families, providing a centralized source of support.
- Works collaboratively with a diverse team, including GPs, specialists, allied health professionals, and volunteers, ensuring coordinated and person-centered care.
- Provides emotional and social support to patients and their loved ones.
- Educates other healthcare professionals about palliative care needs and best practices.
- Contributes to research, the development of clinical guidelines, and participates in relevant committees.
- Identifies when specialist palliative care input is needed and advocates for service improvements.
RN
Allity Aged Care
02.2020 - 08.2020
- Company Overview: (Princeton view aged care)
- Observe for signs of clinical deterioration and practice early management. Collaborate with doctors and allied health team with respect to formulate care plan.
- Advocate for the patients and ensure their needs are being met. Assessing, planning and implementation of preventative care approach to health care.
- Provide information to patients and families about conditions and liaise appropriate plans of action. Ensuring that care plans are implemented and evaluated on a regular basis for every resident.
- Demonstrate leadership skill and capability to think critically and respond to clinical changes. Managing other aged care workers within a facility while mentoring and training ENs, new RNs.
Personal Care worker
Allity Aged Care
10.2016 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: (Princeton view, Victoria & Ridgehaven aged care, South Australia)
- Record accurate documentation relating to care of the Resident and support the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) in order to initialize and evaluate categories to ensure ongoing validation.
- Assist residents with showering, bathing and bed washing and encourage independence in respect to delivery of Activities of Daily Living (ADL's) and maintain confidentiality, privacy and dignity of residents..
- Demonstrate safety awareness and report unsafe issues and potential workplace hazards to the RN. Ensure that organizational policies and procedures are adhered to at all times.
Education
Graduate certificate - Palliative Care
Australian College of Nursing
10.2024
Master of Nursing - Nursing
Monash University
12.2019
Graduate Diploma - Biotechnology
Flinders University
02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
Bangalore University
05.2012
Skills
- Basic Life Support
- First Aid
- CPR
- MS Word
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Selenium
- Support for people living with dementia
Timeline
Incharge RN
Cardina Community aged care
02.2024 - Current
CNS (Clinical Nurse Specialist)
Eastern Health
03.2020 - Current
RN
Allity Aged Care
02.2020 - 08.2020
Personal Care worker
Allity Aged Care
10.2016 - 02.2020
Master of Nursing - Nursing
Monash University
Graduate Diploma - Biotechnology
Flinders University
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
Bangalore University
Graduate certificate - Palliative Care
Australian College of Nursing