Cornelius Miheso Ayoyi
League city,USA
Summary
Experienced registered nurse with over 20 years of experience maintaining high performance standards and actively seeking self-directed learning to enhance technical and interpersonal skills. Proficient in various hospital settings, including medical-surgical, accident and emergency unit, and operating room environments.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
UTMB Health Galveston
02.2025 - Current
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
med-surg and telemetry Nurse
MEMORIAL HERMANN SOUTH EAST HOSPITAL
04.2023 - Current
- Admitting new patients
- Monitoring vital signs
- Administering medications
- Operating and maintaining equipment (e.g., IV tubes, feeding tubes, oxygen tubes, catheters)
- Performing and/or ordering tests and assessments
- Providing wound care
- Facilitating transportation to a rehabilitation facility, long-term care facility, home, etc.
- Providing support and education to patients and their family members/care givers.
Circulating Nurse operating room
ODESSA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTRE
04.2022 - 03.2023
- Knowing all the pertinent information about the patient and verifying that it’s the correct patient on the table going in for the scheduled procedure.
- Positioning the patient appropriately and properly prepping their skin for the incision.
- Managing the room, including supplies, equipment, lighting and documentation. The circulating nurse ensures there’s not a break in sterile technique. If patient status changes, you may have to switch what you are doing – stepping in to help anesthesia, for example.
- Initiating counts when it’s time to close – accounting for all sponges, blades and other instruments.
Senior nurse
NAIROBI HOSPITAL
01.2003 - 03.2022
- Prevent recognize and initiate early management of any post an anesthesia complications.
- Carefully monitor, control and alleviate pain.
- Evaluate patient condition prior to discharge back to the ward.
- Give comprehensive handover report to the ward nurse and document accurately.
- Carry out a pre-operative ward visit and assess the physiologic, psychological and socio-cultural status of the patient, identify problems which would affect intra-operatively and give appropriate patient education.
- Reception of patients in the operating room, providing supportive care and confirming that the patient has been correctly prepared.
- Assist the anesthetist during intubation and during reversal of anesthetic.
- Identify required sets, control and prepare sterile supplies for surgical procedures.
- Scrub nurse for surgical procedures.
- Team leading and shift in-charge.
- Preceptor ,assessing and teaching students
- Departmental infection control liaison personnel
- Cases treated:
- Orthopedic-Total knee and hip replacements, interlocking nailing, ACL repair, arthroscopies
- Urology- renal transplants, cystoscopy, laser lithotripsy, prostatectomy, etc
- Ophthalmology-Cataract extractions and lens implants, removal of chalazion, dacryocystorhinostomies
- Maxillo-facial fractures
- Plastic surgery-liposuction, abdominoplasty, reconstructive breast surgery
- Laparoscopic surgeries (both general and gynecologic)
- ENT-Adenotonsillectomy, tympanoplasty, FESS, laryngoscopy
- General- laparotomy, cholecystectomy, A-P resection, hemorrhoidectomy, thyroidectomy
- And many more since our operating rooms handle diversified surgical interventions and patients are of all ages.
Staff nurse
MOMBASA HOSPITAL
10.2001 - 10.2003
- Preparation of patients for examination and tests.
- Care of both medical and surgical patients and prioritizing care based on critical nature and severity of patients condition.
- Taking vital signs and obtaining results of diagnostic tests ordered
- Administration of medicine, vaccinations and care of patients on intravenous therapy by setting up and priming infusions.
- Taking doctors round and giving them report on the patient progress and assisting other medical staff giving prescribed care to patients.
- Supervising, comprehensive assessment of patient needs and obtaining their personal history and accurate documentation on the patients chart.
- Planning and implementing agreed individual care plans and evaluating the effectiveness of care given.
- Maintaining safe practice and safe environment for patients by keeping with infection control practices and standards.
- Discharging of patients by handling their paperwork and sharing health education
- Mentoring students and qualified staff as required.
Education
BSN - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
05.2024
Higher diploma - peri-operative nursing
Cecil Mc Donnell School of nursing
01.2009
Diploma - nursing
Cecil Mc Donnell School of nursing
01.2001
Kenya certificate of secondary education - undefined
High school
01.1995
Kenya certificate of primary education - undefined
Primary school
01.1991
Skills
- Registered nurse
- Registered peri-operative nurse
Timeline
Registered Nurse
UTMB Health Galveston
02.2025 - Current
med-surg and telemetry Nurse
MEMORIAL HERMANN SOUTH EAST HOSPITAL
04.2023 - Current
Circulating Nurse operating room
ODESSA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTRE
04.2022 - 03.2023
Senior nurse
NAIROBI HOSPITAL
01.2003 - 03.2022
Staff nurse
MOMBASA HOSPITAL
10.2001 - 10.2003
Higher diploma - peri-operative nursing
Cecil Mc Donnell School of nursing
Diploma - nursing
Cecil Mc Donnell School of nursing
Kenya certificate of secondary education - undefined
High school
Kenya certificate of primary education - undefined
Primary school
BSN - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
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