Portia Shindi
Albuquerque,NM
Summary
Experienced, compassionate medical surgical nurse with 13years of expertise in providing advanced-level specialized care to diverse patient population. Skilled in patient assessment care, planning, medication administration and wound care. Collaborates effectively with interdisciplinary teams to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care resulting in improved patient outcomes. Known for exceptional critical thinking skills, quick decision making and effective problem-solving in urgent situations. Strongly dedicated to make a difference in patient`s lives.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
The Rehabilitation Center of Albuquerque (Genesis)
10.2024 - Current
- Foster and build positive long term relationships with patients and family members
- Assisting with activities of daily living, ensuring patient comfort and hygiene.
- Ensure each patient's safety and security at all times
- Safely and accurately administering medications
- Providing wound care to patients and adhering to infection control protocols
- Quickly determine when patients are decompensating and may require return to acute care
- Actively collaborate with CNAs, physical therapist, and occupational therapists
- Balance and prioritize various daily tasks and managing time effectively
Registered Nurse
The Avenues Hospital
07.2019 - 07.2024
- Initiated assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for patients.
- Doing doctors rounds and carrying out of doctors' orders in a timely manner
- Feeding, bathing and changing positions of patients
- Administering medications, deliver IVs, perform EKG testing and perform physical examinations of patients.
- Provides emotional support and guidance to patients and families during difficulty times.
- Giving health education to patients on different conditions and rendering basic nursing care.
- Maintaining accurate patient records and ensuring compliance with documentation requirement as set in the hospital policies.
- Delegate or provide direct supervision to other healthcare team members as it relates to patient plan of care
Registered Nurse
Claybank Private Hospital
10.2012 - 06.2019
- Provided Pre and post-operative care to patients.
- Preparation of theatres: Handover and takeover of the department, ensuring cleanliness of the theatre, checking of crash carts and emergency equipment's as per theatre policy, replenishing expired drugs, ordering of theatre drugs, packing and autoclaving of instruments before procedures and check availability of gases
- Scrubbing: using asceptic technique, anticipating surgeon's needs and perform surgical count with circulating nurse
- Anaesthetic assistant: Provide dedicated assistance to the anaesthetist and confirm identification procedure, correct operative site, valid informed consent, allergies and fasting status
- Circulating Nurse: Facilitates effective communication within the operating room, reception and other departments, Ensure availability of sterile instruments. perfuming surgical count with the scrub nurse and cleaning of theatres in between cases.
- Recovery Nurse/PACU: Ensure emergency equipment is ready, receive both verbal and written handovers from anaesthetist, monitoring patient and doing observations till recovery
Education
Operating theatre nurse -
The Avenues School of Nursing
07.2019
Registered General Nurse -
Kwekwe School of Nursing
12.2011
Skills
- Medication administration
- Patient assessment
- Wound care management
- Infection control
- Documentation compliance
- Care plan development
- Time management
- Situational awareness
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
Certification
- AHA BLS, 09/01/24
- AHA ACLS, 09/01/24
- Texas, 1086931
- Indiana, 28292457A
Training
- Medication administration/ Exposure to Bar code scanning technology and Pyxis usage
- Introduction to Cerner training module/ Electronic documentation.
- Wound care (including WoundVac) /HAPI prevention/ Wound staging.
- IV insertion and management/ IV primary and IVPB using Alaris pump.
- Obtaining blood specimens/ phlebotomy/ lab collection.
- Head-to-toe assessment skills.
- Escalation pathways.
- ACLS and BLS certification
- EKG interpretation
- Management of patients with cardiac/ respiratory/ urinary/ GI/ endocrine pathophysiology; Common diagnostic testing: Common labs and provider orders.
- NG tube insertion and management (Enteral feeding/ kangaroo pump).
- Foley catheter insertion and management (CAUTI bundle).
- Central line management (CLABSI bundle).
- Blood transfusion management.
Timeline
Registered Nurse
The Rehabilitation Center of Albuquerque (Genesis)
10.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
The Avenues Hospital
07.2019 - 07.2024
Registered Nurse
Claybank Private Hospital
10.2012 - 06.2019
Operating theatre nurse -
The Avenues School of Nursing
Registered General Nurse -
Kwekwe School of Nursing
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