Community Outreach Worker

• Oct 2019 - Present

Officer In Charge

• Jan 2017 - Present

• Label and dispense prescriptions to patients in accordance with the correct operating procedures to ensure a safe supply to patients in an efficient and accurate manner. • Issue prepared prescriptions to patients. • Ensure all dispensary equipment is kept clean and in good working order. All work surfaces are cleaned and tidied on a regular basis. • Maintain an accurate detailed record of all dispensing transactions. • Promptly forward all invoices and dispensary related correspondence to the accounts. • Maintain a system for providing and compiling dosages for those patients requiring a compliance aid. • Support the delivery of medicine use reviews. • Ensure and maintain the temperature control record/logbook. • Ensure the drugs are received and stored in an appropriate manner in accordance with the manufacturers instructions. • Collect prescription charges/check patient exemption statements. • Ensure that all medicines and appliances dispensed are checked against the prescription and whenever there is doubt about the appropriateness of the item, or about the dose or labeling instructions to check with the authorizing doctor or duty doctor. • Operate efficient stock control appropriate to the needs of the dispensary with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimizing wastage. • Undertake other reasonable duties to ensure the effectiveness of the business.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

• Support in training nurses and psychosocial staff on SGBV issues at various clinics and hospitals in and around Montserrado. • Support and maintain the SGBV protection network on SRHR issues within the assigned community of the county. • Support in the establishment of school health clubs for girls. • Visit and support girl’s health clubs in schools and community and Mentor on a weekly basis. • Conduct regular visits to health centers, schools, implementing communities for the purpose of collecting data or to conduct sensitization activities with girls’ club and mentor. • Conduct SGBV awareness raising using either group work or house to house awareness as a suitable communication strategy. • Propose and advise on awareness-raising subjects to supervisor according to emerging needs on the community level. • Identify SGBV and SEA harmful traditional practices and other SBV issues for systematic reporting, including compromised cases. • Assist Reproductive Health Counsellor in Conducting training for girl’s health club and mentors. • Support reproductive health counselor in conducting a baseline survey on SGBV issues and develop concept notes to support in training of health practitioners and community health service providers. • Advise and refer SGBV survivors for available mL counseling, medical, legal and protection services as appropriate. • Ensure systematic reporting from girls’ health club and mentor the mL for weekly data compilation and to ensure case follow. • Conduct meetings with the girls’ club.

Nurse

• 2018 - 2018

• Provides nursing care for patients’ altered needs. • Assists the patient with daily hygiene, mobility, and altered needs. • Assists the patient with nutrition and elimination needs. • Obtains and documents patient data and information. • Assists with or performs nursing procedures and tasks as directed. • Complete successfully educational programs, return demonstrations of skills, and unit-specific checklist requirements relevant to the assigned area of nursing. • Demonstrate an understanding and ability to apply critical thinking skills to clinical practice • Integrate knowledge from the liberal arts, sciences, humanities, and nursing when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for individuals. • Helps maintain a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors

Nurse - Volunteer

• 2017 - 2017

• Provides initial and ongoing assessment and interpretation of patients or clients within the framework of holistic professional nursing practice, and in accordance with the principles of patient and family-centered care. • Assesses and interprets information and data regarding the patient. • Assesses and interprets patient or client’s ability (physical, social and psychological) to manage their health in order to transition their care or discharge. • In collaboration with the patient or family identifies patient or family needs basing on the analysis of data. Identifies and communicates patient or family needs to the interdisciplinary health care team and other providers of care as appropriate. • Provides ongoing monitoring of patient or client’s or family response to intervention; identifies deviations from expected outcomes and assesses change in patient status. • Prioritizes nursing interventions to achieve patient or client outcomes and goals. • Develops and coordinates a comprehensive discharge and education plan to meet the patient or client and their families’ needs. • Provides information and instruction to assist patients or clients to understand health care practices and processes. • Utilizes educational material to support patients or clients understanding of their health care, health promotion, and or health maintenance, and the enhancement of their individual wellbeing Liaises with other providers in the community to transition care. • Care is coordinated and delivered within the confines of available human, material and fiscal resources of the hospital, amongst many others.

Student Nurse

• 2016 - 2016

Key Responsibilities under the direct supervision of a mental health Nurse Mentor (License): • Deliver safe, direct care to an assigned group of patients, under the supervision of an Licensed RN. • Work within Hospitals, Nursing division and departmental policies • Use nursing processes to work in collaboration with the healthcare team, implementing and documenting individualized nursing plans of care incorporating age specific considerations, including discharge planning and patient/family teaching • Administer medication, including IV medication. • Assist with special tests and procedures, ensure proper consent has been obtained • Assist with or institute emergency measures for sudden, adverse developments in patients • Maintain a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with Hospitals standards • Assist to maintain, support, and implement department and Hospitals mission and goals • Perform related duties and responsibilities as required • Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols • Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk • Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner • Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"

Student Nurse

• 2016 - 2016

Key Responsibilities Under the direct supervision of a Nurse Mentor (License Nurse): • To provide a consistently high-quality responsive service to patients and their relatives. • To work within the team as delegated, supporting colleagues in the delivery of patient care in accordance with the service values and philosophy of care to patients. • To assess patient care needs and develop implement and evaluate care plans, involving patients and relatives when appropriate. • Carry out all relevant forms of care with appropriate supervision commensurate with level of competencies and within best available evidence. • Liaise with patient and family members when appropriate and to work collaboratively, providing education and support to identify and plan appropriate patient care. • Observe strict confidentiality regarding the health and personal affairs of the patient. • Ensure that all policies and guidelines in the relevant clinical areas are adhered to in accordance with best practice and to keep up to date with developments in practice. • Observe fully, at all times, the code of Professional Conduct for Nurses. • Carry out duties as delegated by a Registered Nurse, under the supervision of a named Preceptor. • Observe professional courtesy and other requirements of professional behavior in his/her relationship with professional colleagues. • Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients. • Maintain timely and accurate clinical records in accordance with Policy. • Ensure effective communication and working relationships with other members of the nursing team on the ward/department and with a multidisciplinary team and with colleagues from other areas of the service and other agencies. • Assist with the effective planning and discharge arrangements for patients in your care. • Maintain appropriate records and communications as per Service Organization.

Student Nurse

• 2015 - 2015

Key Responsibilities Under the direct supervision of a Nurse Mentor (License Nurse): • Support nursing procedures and patient care tasks. • Provides for patient's personal hygiene: gives bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves, and assists with showers. • Provides for activities of daily living: assists with meals and feeds patients; ambulates, turns, and positions patients; provides fresh water and nourishment between meals. • Administers enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, therapeutic baths, and applies restraints. • Performs 1&0; checks vital signs and weight; performs sugar and acetone urine testing, specimen collection, and postmortem care. • Reports observations of a patient to the nurse caring for the patient to ensure professional assessment. • Instills confidence in the patient by maintaining a neat and attractive appearance and performing duties in a competent and caring manner.

Student Nurse

• 2015 - 2015

Key Responsibilities under the direct supervision of a Nurse Mentor (License Nurse): • Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols. • Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly. • Develops plan of care that is individualized for the patient reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team. • Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by a physician in an accurate and timely manner. • Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by the individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family. • Delivers care with appropriate age and cultural competence to specific patient populations according to individualized needs. • Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the patient and his/her family. • Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution. • Initiates emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation and advanced life support protocols. • Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patient, family and client facility staff. • Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights. • Reports patient condition to appropriate personnel during each shift. • Maintains current competency in the nursing specialty by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.