Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Westways Competency Check and orientation Program
Timeline
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Patrick Kinyua Muhoro

Albuquerque,NM

Summary

Compassionate registered nurse with over 16 years working experience in healthcare skilled in providing exceptional care to diverse patient population with a passion for emergency cases and medical and surgical care. Looking for the challenging and responsible role as a nurse in medical-surgical department that should allow me to make best use of my caring abilities, knowledge, experience and skills to promote health.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

RN

Westways Staffing Services
05.2024 - Current
  • Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
  • Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
  • Managed care from admission to discharge.
  • Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

Nursing Officer

Nyeri County Referral Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2024
  • Providing and supervising care for surgical patients who are either chronically or critically ill
  • Monitoring patients' physical conditions, administering medicine and formulated symptom management strategies.
  • Applying nursing theory and research to clinical practice, and functioned as a researcher, and administrator and educators in the field.
  • Providing psychological support for patients and relatives.
  • Delivering educational programmes including wound management.
  • Undertaking the management of patients as well as organising appropriate support services.
  • Member of a cohesive multi-disciplinary team within a busy surgical department, assisting with operations.
  • At a practical level, working in recovery, duties include airway management, pain management, monitoring temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration rates, giving injections and administering medications, care of dressings and drains, administering blood transfusions and intravenous therapy.
  • Planning, assessing, and evaluating care for patients, aiming to meet the needs – physical, emotional and social – of the whole person.
  • Evaluated patient responses to treatments and adjusted accordingly per physician orders.
  • Implemented infection control protocols throughout all aspects of nursing practice.
  • Performed comprehensive assessments of patients' physical, psychosocial, and environmental needs.
  • Developed strategies to improve the quality of clinical outcomes through evidence-based practice guidelines.
  • Provided direct patient care with a focus on holistic and evidence-based nursing practices.
  • Maintained accurate documentation of patient medical records according to agency policies and procedures.

Nursing Officer

Olivehill surgical centre, Kenya
03.2005 - 12.2009
  • Consulting and coordinating with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
  • Conducting pre- and post-operative education.
  • Serving as the communication liaison to family of the patient and members of the operating team.
  • Taking and monitoring patients’ vital signs.
  • Ensuring that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure is being performed.
  • Providing basic, bedside care.
  • Preparing and administering (orally, subcutaneously, through an IV) and recording prescribed medications.
  • Reporting adverse reactions to medications or treatments in accordance with policy regarding the administration of medications by a licensed registered nurse.
  • Responding to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
  • Recording all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.

Education

Bachelors of Science - Nursing

Grand Canyon University
Arizona City, AZ

Higher Diploma - Nursing (Anaesthesia)

Kijabe College of Health Sciences
KENYA
01.2016

Diploma - Nursing

Kenya Medical Training College
01.2004

Skills

  • Medication and Surgical Nursing interventions
  • Basic Wound Care
  • Medication Administration
  • Basic Life Support (CPR and AED)
  • Patient Assessment and Monitoring
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Airway Management
  • Patient Education and Counseling
  • Basic computer skills
  • Advance Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
  • Patient Care Assessment

Certification

  • Registered Nurse - Nursing Council of Kenya
  • Registered Nurse-Indiana State Board of Nursing
  • Registered Nurse-New Mexico Board of Nursing
  • Basic Life Support (CPR and AED)
  • Advance Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

Westways Competency Check and orientation Program

  • Ethical principles
  • HIPPA
  • ACLS/BLS
  • EKG interpretation
  • Head-to-toe assessment
  • Escalation pathways
  • CLABSI and CAUTI Bundles
  • Blood transfusion management
  • Introduction to Electronic documentation

Timeline

RN

Westways Staffing Services
05.2024 - Current

Nursing Officer

Nyeri County Referral Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2024

Nursing Officer

Olivehill surgical centre, Kenya
03.2005 - 12.2009

Bachelors of Science - Nursing

Grand Canyon University

Higher Diploma - Nursing (Anaesthesia)

Kijabe College of Health Sciences

Diploma - Nursing

Kenya Medical Training College

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