Yunxi Zhang
Brisbane
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Nazareth Residential Aged Care
02.2023 - Current
- Coordinate and provide high quality holistic care and services to the frail aged in a charitable Christian environment
- Delivery professional clinical care and comply with contemporary legislation, regulations, The Aged care Quality Standards, and Principles and Guidelines relevant to the Aged Care sector in healthcare
- Key accountabilities and responsibilities include: Clinical leadership, Quality improvement, Clinical care, Management and administration.
Volunteer Patient Companion
Mater Hospital Brisbane
11.2023 - 10.2023
- Direct and answer enquiries from patients and visitors
- Provide people in the waiting room, acute and short stay areas with tea & coffee & refreshments, general hospital information, blankets, escort to services on campus, companionship to patients & family members, escort family members to patient bedsides, assist with discharges to Transit Lounge or Ambulance Bay area
- Make up admission packs & other administrative duties as delegated.
Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
07.2022 - 10.2022
- Assisted doctors in the operating theater with biopsy taking and polyp removal
- Took a daily patient load of 3 in the recovery bay, monitored patients’ vital signs to ensure that their numbers were within the normal range after receiving anesthetics
- Discussed patients’ reports with them and answered questions that were within my scope of practice
- Delivered handover to the discharge area nurse
- Learned about common gastrointestinal conditions, their causes, symptoms and treatment.
Redland Hospital
03.2022 - 05.2022
- Worked with nurses to deliver different care to patients coming in with different conditions, such as chest pain, abdominal pain and drug overdose
- Took and monitored patients’ vital signs and made sure that all of the numbers were within the normal range for the condition they have
- Observed doctors getting patients’ history and asking necessary questions to come up with a diagnosis
- Worked with the interprofessional team to deliver patient care
- Familiarized myself with medications that were commonly used in the emergency department, their mechanisms and why they were being used.
Queensland Children’s Hospital
12.2021 - 12.2021
- Learned about communication skills with children across different ages
- Learned about special techniques for taking vital signs on infants
- Worked with nurses to prepare and administer different medications to patients
- Learned about different chemotherapy drugs and their side-effects, as well as interventions to ease those side-effects.
Bayside Community Health Clinic
07.2021 - 11.2021
- Observed interdisciplinary team meetings regarding progress or alerts of some patients
- Shadowed nurses on patients’ clinic visits and home visits
- Observed psychiatrist consultation with patients and their discussion about treatment options and care plans
- Learned about medications that are specific for psychiatric conditions.
Princess Alexandra Hospital
02.2021 - 05.2021
- Shadowed nurses in the operating theater, recovery bay and discharge area
- Consolidated anatomical knowledge about the human digestive tract
- Performed necessary checks for patients before the procedure commences
- Performed documentation during procedure under the nurse’s supervision
- Monitored patients’ vital signs and pain score when they were in the recovery bay
- Communicated with patients who were in discomfort about the necessity of intervention
- Communicated with patients and their family regarding post-procedural care and actions needed to be taken if certain symptoms persisted.
Wesley Mission Sinnamon Park
07.2020 - 09.2020
- Shadowed nurses in care giving including medication administration, wound care
- Daily communication with residents and families
- Working with both nurses and care staff
- Doing simple documentation and learning about different aspects regarding care plans.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing -
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD12.2022
Skills
- Communication
- Person-centered care
- Patience
- Critical thinking
- Empathy
- Attention to details
- Time and stress management
- Receptive attitude
- Patient Assessments
- Medication Administration
- Wound Care
- Clinical judgment
Ahpraregistrationnumber
NMW0002727093
Languages
English
Full Professional
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Volunteer Patient Companion
Mater Hospital Brisbane
11.2023 - 10.2023
Registered Nurse
Nazareth Residential Aged Care
02.2023 - Current
Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
07.2022 - 10.2022
Redland Hospital
03.2022 - 05.2022
Queensland Children’s Hospital
12.2021 - 12.2021
Bayside Community Health Clinic
07.2021 - 11.2021
Princess Alexandra Hospital
02.2021 - 05.2021
Wesley Mission Sinnamon Park
07.2020 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Nursing -
The University of Queensland
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