ALUMITA NAIGACIA BULICOKOCOKO
Avondale,New Zealand
Summary
Dynamic Public Health Nurse with extensive experience at Te Toka Tumai: Starship Community Services, excelling in case management and patient assessment. Proven ability to enhance community health through effective outreach and education, demonstrating cultural competence and empathy. Skilled in immunization administration, fostering positive relationships to improve patient outcomes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Public Health Nurse
Te Toka Tumai: Starship Community Services
12.2024 - Current
- Collaborates with fellow team members and work groups to achieve specific objectives.
- Seeks out opportunities to support others in achieving goals.
- Actively contributes to and accepts consensus decisions.
- Recognises and respects individual differences.
- Understands the significance of, and obligations under Te Tiriti
- Waitangi, including how to apply Te Tiriti principles in a meaningful way.
- Displays cultural sensitivity and a willingness to work positively with organisational strategies to improve outcomes for Māori.
- Sets high personal standards and strives to achieve goals Is proactive and displays initiative.
- Is resilient to change.
- Understands and acknowledges personal and professional limitations.
- Is aware of professional boundaries and code of conduct.
- Ability to work to deadlines to achieve outcomes.
- Develops positive relationships with the patients/clients, treating them respectfully and as a first priority.
- Empathises with others and considers their needs and feelings.
- Actively listens, drawing out information and checking understanding.
- Communicates information effectively and accurately, both orally and in writing. Adjusts style to the recipients and considers their frame of reference.
- Shows courtesy, respect, caring for patients and their whānau/family in all aspects of nursing practice.
- Demonstrates compassion.
- Contributes to group/area discussions that focus on reviewing current practice to optimise patient care.
- Ability to flex within the scope of Registered Nurse practice to meet the changing needs of patients and their family/whānau.
- Responds positively and collegially, to requests for help from other team members.
- Has the ability to plan, monitor and evaluate care using realistic timeframes and appropriate resources.
- Is proactive in escalating patient care concerns.
Homecare Support Worker
Drake Medox
10.2022 - 12.2024
- Serve clients at their individual homes.
- Perform Personal cares- daily.
- Conduct Bladder care- change diapers, suprapubic catheter care.
- Provide Mobility Support.
- Conduct Passive stretches- daily.
- Assist with medication and given orally or through PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube.
- Conduct PEG tube care.
- Conduct Stoma bag care.
- Conduct Household support and other daily activities.
Community health nurse
Navua health centre
08.2019 - 08.2022
- Serve a population of 7429 in the Navua Medical Area, this population has the range of age groups from 0 to 70+.
- Provide case management and nursing care to individuals in their home.
- Case management including physical assessments, obtaining doctors’ orders, coordination of services, referrals for services needed, home safety evaluations and ongoing monitoring of care in the home.
- Organize and coordinate community outreach programs and shift clinics.
- Immunization defaulter tracing in the community.
- Provide family planning services in the community.
- Conduct IMCI services in the community.
- Conduct maternal and child health clinic in the clinic and in the community.
- Immunize babies at the clinic and in the community.
- Book antenatal mothers in the community.
- Contact tracing of positive Covid 19 patients and refer the sick.
- Conduct nasopharyngeal swabbing of contacts of Covid 19 positive patients.
- Provide nursing care to Covid 19 positive patients in the isolation ward that contained 16 beds. These 16-bed ward included acute patients, bedridden patients, post-natal mothers and neonates and paediatrics.
- Documenting and reporting monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually.
- Create awareness on communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- Administer Covid 19 vaccines.
- Accompany the school team for school visits and administer vaccines such as HPV, tetanus, MMR.
Community health nurse
Valelevu health centre
05.2017 - 05.2019
- Serve a community with a population of 12,000 in the Valelevu Medical Area, this population has the range of age groups from 0 to 70+.
- Provide case management and nursing care to individuals in their home. These cases are CVA, spinal injuries, cancer, Hip fractures and visiting retirement clients.
- Case management including physical assessments, obtaining doctors’ orders, coordination of services, referrals for services needed, home safety evaluations and ongoing monitoring of care in the home.
- Organize and coordinate community outreach programs and shift clinics every month.
- Immunization defaulter tracing in the community every month.
- Provide family planning services in the community.
- Conduct maternal and child health clinic in the clinic and in the community.
- Immunize babies at the clinic and in the community.
- Conduct IMCI services in the community.
- Book antenatal mothers in the community.
- Documenting and reporting monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually.
- Create awareness on communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- Accompany the school team for school visits and administer vaccines such as HPV, tetanus, MMR.
Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse
Colonial war memorial hospital
10.2015 - 05.2019
- Provide critical care to pediatric patients with severe life threatening diseases and traumatic injuries.
- Worked in a 10-bed multiservice unit for post-surgical, cardiac, burns, neonatal complications and respiratory cases.
- Nurse patients on ventilator support and CPAP support.
- Perform additional task when assigned.
- Setup/monitor invasive monitoring systems including arterial and central lines.
- Retrieve and assist doctors in providing health care to patients and on emergency cases.
- Administer emergency drugs, antibiotics and other medication to patients.
- Prep patients for surgery, CT scan and other procedures.
- Documentation in patients’ folder.
General outpatient nurse
Kamikamica health centre
05.2013 - 06.2015
- Serve a population of 15, 000.
- Provide general outpatient health care services like triaging, dressing wounds, administering injectable medications, monitoring patients and referring patients to the major hospital.
- Attend to emergencies.
- Provide special outpatient services.
- Book pregnant women.
- Provide family planning services.
- Conduct IMCI services to children less than 5 years old.
- Documentation in patients’ folder and registers.
- Assist the medical officer with any procedures to be done.
- Create awareness on non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases.
District Nurse
Yanuya Nursing Station
08.2013 - 11.2013
- Serve a community with a population of 1000 that consists of 2 villages, 3 hotels, 1 kindagarten school and 1 primary school.
- Provide general outpatient health care services like triaging, dressing wounds, administering injectable medications, monitoring patients and referring patients to the major hospital.
- Provide family planning services.
- Conduct IMCI services to children less than 5 years old.
- Conduct maternal and child health clinic in the clinic and in the community.
- Immunize babies at the clinic and in the community.
- Documentation in patients’ folder and registers.
- Create awareness on non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases.
- Provide talks to youths on sexual health.
- Book pregnant women.
- Monthly reporting, biannual reporting, annual reporting.
Community health nurse
Ba health centre
11.2011 - 04.2013
- Serve a community with a population of 4,000.
- Provide case management and nursing care to individuals in their home.
- Case management including physical assessments, obtaining doctors’ orders, coordination of services, referrals for services needed, home safety evaluations and ongoing monitoring of care in the home.
- Organize and coordinate community outreach programs and shift clinics.
- Immunization defaulter tracing in the community.
- Provide family planning services in the community.
- Conduct maternal and child health clinic in the clinic and in the community.
- Immunize babies at the clinic and in the community.
- Conduct IMCI services in the community.
- Book antenatal mothers in the community.
- Contact tracing of patients that had leptospirosis, typhoid and dengue fever.
- Assisted in general outpatient when they are shortage of nurses.
- Accompany the school, team and administer MMR vaccine, tetanus and HPV vaccines.
- Documentation and reporting monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually.
School health nurse
Nausori health centre
01.2009 - 10.2011
- Serve 52 schools in the Rewa Sub-division with a population 3,500.
- Monitor growth and development of school children.
- Immunization at school.
- Identify and treating minor ailments.
- Referral accordingly.
- Record and report.
- Create awareness on hand washing, personal hygiene and significance of immunization.
General ward nurse
Levuka Subdivisional Hospital
02.2008 - 01.2009
- This hospital contained 4 ante natal beds, 4 post natal beds, 10 general ward beds, 10 beds in the Men’s ward and 5 beds in children’s ward.
- Case management of general ward patients, pregnant mothers, general outpatients.
- Attend to walk in patients from 4.30pm to 6am.
- Attend to emergencies from 4.30pm to 6am.
- Wound cleaning and dressing.
- Administer charted medications.
- Monitor laboring mothers and post-natal mothers as well as neonates.
- Attend to laboring mothers and conduct deliveries.
- Conduct initial toilet to babies and immunize them.
- Creating awareness to patients’ relatives on home care.
- Assisting the doctors in performing procedures.
- Documentation and reporting.
Maternity ward nurse
Nausori Maternity Unit
09.2007 - 02.2008
- This hospital contained 4 antenatal beds, 8 postnatal beds, 2 laboring rooms.
- Assist midwives in deliveries.
- Admit laboring mothers in to the wards.
- Monitor mothers and babies in the ward every 2 hours.
- Monitor laboring mothers in labor ward.
- Conduct assessment to laboring mothers.
- Monitor pregnant mothers in the antenatal ward.
- Educate first time mothers on bathing baby, cord care, burping, attachment and positioning during breastfeeding.
- Conduct initial toilet and immunize babies.
- Documentation and reporting.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Health Service Management
Fiji National University
12.2022
Bachelor - Nursing
Fiji National University
12.2020
Bachelor - Public Health Nursing
Fiji National University
12.2012
Diploma - General and 0bstetric Nursing
Fiji School of Nursing
09.2007
Skills
- Case management and patient assessment
- Immunization administration
- Community outreach and health education
- Cultural competence
References
- Leilani Hipa, Locality Lead, Starship Community Services, leilaniC@adhb.govt.nz, 021950479
- Inise Teira, Public Health Team Leader, Navua Health Centre, (+679) 8680700
- Averyl Rodrigues, Drake Medox International, 45 O’Rorke Road, Penrose, ARODRIGUES@NZ.DRAKEINTL.COM, 0095730595
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/19/85
- Nationality: Fijian
Other Professional Qualifications
- 03/01/21, Tamanu Mobile CVA APP Training
- 11/01/21, Pfizer Vaccine Administration Training
- 11/01/20, Cervical Cancer Screening Training
- 05/01/18, Mental Health Gap Training
- 10/01/17, Motivational Interview Training
- 06/01/16, 20 hour Breastfeeding Course
- 10/01/15, In-service training on case management in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 09/01/14, Pediatric Life Support Course
- 11/28/12, Customer Service, Trachoma Growth and Development
- 11/27/12, Revised Public Health Information System Training
- 10/01/12, Infant and Young Child Feeding Workshop
- 09/20/12, Climate Change Workshop
- 09/12/12, NCD Tool Kit Training
- 09/04/12, New Pacific Child Record Training
- 07/24/12, EPI Refresher Course
- 07/06/12, Competencies for Community Health Nurses Workshop
- 06/16/12, ICCAT Training
- 02/20/12, IMCI Training
- 07/28/12, Oral Health Training
- 07/21/11, Leadership and Competency Skills Training
Timeline
Public Health Nurse
Te Toka Tumai: Starship Community Services
12.2024 - Current
Homecare Support Worker
Drake Medox
10.2022 - 12.2024
Community health nurse
Navua health centre
08.2019 - 08.2022
Community health nurse
Valelevu health centre
05.2017 - 05.2019
Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse
Colonial war memorial hospital
10.2015 - 05.2019
District Nurse
Yanuya Nursing Station
08.2013 - 11.2013
General outpatient nurse
Kamikamica health centre
05.2013 - 06.2015
Community health nurse
Ba health centre
11.2011 - 04.2013
School health nurse
Nausori health centre
01.2009 - 10.2011
General ward nurse
Levuka Subdivisional Hospital
02.2008 - 01.2009
Maternity ward nurse
Nausori Maternity Unit
09.2007 - 02.2008
Postgraduate Diploma - Health Service Management
Fiji National University
Bachelor - Nursing
Fiji National University
Bachelor - Public Health Nursing
Fiji National University
Diploma - General and 0bstetric Nursing
Fiji School of Nursing
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