Hazel Salazar

• Provide outstanding nursing care for ventilator dependent pediatrics and adult patients.
• Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly.
• Troubleshoots when necessary, e.g Mechanical ventilator, feeding pump and infusion pumps.
• Assessing, observing and reporting on the condition of patients.
• Recording pulse, temperature and respiration and keeping accurate records of these observations.
• Maintaining and checking intravenous infusions
• Administering drugs and injections, Assisting with tests and evaluations.
• Responding quickly to emergencies
• Explaining treatment and procedures to enable parents to consent to treatment.
• Supports and educates parents and close relatives
• Observing strict hygiene and safety rules and ensuring that visitors also observe any rules on the ward or unit.

Infection Control link nurse

• Act as a link between clinical area and the infection control team.
• Increase awareness of infection control issues in ward and motivate staff to improve practice.
• Giving training to staffs to ensure their competences.
• Assisting in improving clinical ward audit scores, helping infection control implement policies and collecting data on hospital- acquired infections.

• Assess patient’s condition during every visit and chart their observations.
• Perform evaluation tasks, including vital signs and medication review.
• Administer medication as prescribed by the patient’s Physician.
• Dress or redress open wounds and assess progress of healing.
• Educate patients and their families on proper home health care strategies and procedures.
• Coordinate with Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Physicians and anyone else involved in the patient’s care plan.
• Provide palliative care as needed to keep the patient comfortable.
• Make recommendations for devices or tools that might improve the patient quality of life.
• Listen to the patient and respond to concerns or requests.

• Walk the ward and assess patient’s medical needs
• Provide prescribed injections and medications
• Administer intravenous medications as required
• Monitor vital signs and adjust treatment
• Perform patient evaluations at equal interval
• Notify doctors about changes in patient's status
• Collect sputum, urine, and stool specimen for medical analysis
• Analyze lab test results and change treatment accordingly
• Supervise patient mealtime and beverage rounds, ensuring assistance given where needed and encourage appropriate diet to meet individual needs
• Provide appropriate palliative and terminal care to meet end of life pathway
• Ensures surgical preparedness of the patient and family
• Ensuring patient is medically fit also evaluate physical and mental status prior to operation
• Providing nursing interventions as required and preparing the patients for safe discharge
• Promote the prevention of pressure sores and post-operative complication through early ambulation, using risk assessment tools and pressure relieving aids.
• Perform complex clinical activities e.g: Cleaning wounds dressings, removal of stitches, ECG’s, venipuncture, and female catheterization, Proper handling of wound drainage
• Administer medication and blood products in an accurate, safe and knowledgeable manner.
• Ensure patient’s personal hygiene and appearance is maintained to a high standard.
• Support the implementation of infection control issues and action plans to reduce infection e.g: Hand washing and barrier nursing.
• To manage patient care pre-and post-procedure, including monitoring vital signs for sedated and non-sedated patients.

• Provides a calm reassurance
• Provides nursing care to patients, administer medications and treatments
• Assisted doctors in performing bedside procedures
• Performed blood transfusions
• Administering intravenous fluids and daily doses medications
• Provide health education to children and their parents and disease prevention
• Seizure precaution and administration of oxygen, assisting in breathing with ambu-bag PRN
• Attending quickly to emergency situations
• Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to patients and relatives