Victor Ratemo
Staunton,VA
Summary
Resourceful healthcare professional with extensive experience in patient care and collaboration with medical teams. Proficient in delivering emotional support, conducting diagnostic tests, and administering medications. Strong expertise in emergency and nursing care techniques, ensuring high-quality patient outcomes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Augusta health medical center
Fishersville, VA
05.2024 - Current
- Unit - Critical care unit
- Prepare and receive a patient to the critical care unit
- Perform and document head to toe assessment on all patients on ICU.
- Perform tracheotomy care.
- Monitors hemodynamic status on patients and correctly interprets the results i.e. CVP reading, ABP monitoring.
- Diagnose cardio-pulmonary arrests and carry out resuscitation procedures.
- Administers medication via oral, nasal, ophthalmic, intravenous, rectal, intramuscular, subcutaneously.
- Participate in special procedures i.e fixation of chest drains, intubation, creation of tracheostomy, lumbar puncture ABG collection, arterial line fixation, central line placement and nasal swab collection, chest tube removal.
- Take and analyze ECG and carry out appropriate actions.
- Demonstrates knowledge in cardiac monitoring identifies dysrhythmias and conducts treatment appropriately.
- Wound care assessment and management specifies to wound type; burns, pressure sores, and take wound swabs for cultures.
- Ensure that infection control practices are upheld at all times.
- Unit: Critical care unit
- Cases Cared for: Post-operative patients requiring hemodynamic monitoring and or ventilatory support, Acute kidney injury, Endocrine disorders i.e DKA, HHS, Pulmonary embolism, Acute coronary syndrome, Heart failure, Gastrointerstinal disorders i.e G.I bleed, Fulminant hepatic failure, Severe pancreatitis, Status epilepticus, Severe pneumonia, Cardiac arrhythmias i.e. SVT, VF/VT
- Equipment Used: Syringe pumps, ventilators, BGA machine, defibrillator, cardiac monitor, ECG machine, suction apparatus, CRRT machine/hemodialysis machines, high flow nasal cannula, and feeding pumps.
Staff Nurse
The Nairobi hospital
Nairobi city, Kenya
03.2019 - 03.2024
Staff Nurse
The Nairobi hospital
Nairobi, Kenya
10.2016 - 03.2019
- Administer medication i.e IV PO PR IM SC etc
- Perform nursing procedures to include: Nasal gastric tube insertion, Urinary catheter insertions, Removal skin staples, Suctioning of patient, Oral care, Drug administration including prepared chemotherapy, Feeding patients, Changing soiled patients, Nasal-gastric/PEG tube feeding, Wound care and dressing, Bladder irrigation.
- Assist physicians with procedures to include: Insertion of chest tubes, Insertion and care of urethral catheters, Assist in physiotherapy, Insertion of central line, Sedation for procedures i.e MRI, Pleural tapping, Lumbar puncture, Bone marrow biopsy.
- Administration of blood and blood products with appropriate monitoring.
- Assist occasionally with resuscitating patient with cardiopulmonary complication.
- Manage patient using the nursing process being guided by physicians in the case.
- Clinical unit report hand over.
- Attending family conferences, and counseling committee representative.
- Presentation in continuous medical education in the wards on standard operating procedures.
- Assesses patient's change of condition and coordinates for transfer to ICU.
- Unit: Medical/surgical ward
- Hours per week: 45 hours
- Cases Cared For: Hypertension, Sickle cell disease, Cancers i.e. brain tumors, Burns care, Diabetes, Head injuries, Malaria, Pulmonary tuberculosis, HIV, Cellulitis, Post operative patients
- Equipment Used: Vickers pumps, Feeding pumps, O2 accessories, portable oxygen cylinder and wall outlets, Blood pressure machine, Blood sugar machine, Spo2 monitors, ECG machine, Suction apparatus, Infusion pump
Education
Critical Care Nursing -
The Cicely McDonell College of Health Sciences
01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZTimeline
Registered Nurse
Augusta health medical center
05.2024 - Current
Staff Nurse
The Nairobi hospital
03.2019 - 03.2024
Staff Nurse
The Nairobi hospital
10.2016 - 03.2019
Critical Care Nursing -
The Cicely McDonell College of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
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