Carin van Niekerk

Working in a private Aged Care Hospital for to 40 residents on rest home and hospital level.

• Worked flexible hours across morning, afternoon, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Developed skills in Delegation and Directing.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.

• Did nursing assessments in partnership with patients and families and implemented care plans.
• Provided nursing interventions and monitored and evaluated response to treatment.
• Worked together with multi-disciplinary team, valuating and respecting colleagues.
• Provided patients with relief from pain and other physical symptoms.
• Acknowledging cultural diversity with respect regarding spiritual beliefs, cultural practices and lifestyle choice of others.
• Did accurate clinical documentation and having an awareness of policies and guidelines.
• Offered a support system to help patients to live as active and meaningful as possible until death.
• I am a trained Preceptor and I assisted with the orientation and training of new staff.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.

• Expert Nurse in high acuity Postnatal Ward from 2009.
• Regularly did shift coordination of staff.
• Educated staff and patients on reducing Sudden Infant Death as a quality improvement project.
• Oriented and trained new nurses and midwives in the maternity ward in my role as Preceptor.
• I was part of the first team of nurses that prepared women for elective caesarean sections, assisted in theatre, resuscitated the newborns and assisted with skin to skin and breastfeeding in recovery room.
• Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately.

• In management position in a private hospital with 500 beds in SA.
• Trained staff in waste management, infection control, hospital hygiene, isolation protocols and handling of infectious diseases.
• Wrote and kept policies and procedures regarding Infection Control up to date.
• Kept statistics of all hospital and community acquired infection.
• Reporting directly to Hospital Manager and Nurse Manager.
• Achievements: When I started at N1 City Hospital there were no system of keeping records and statistics and policies and procedures were outdated.
• In the time I worked in that position I improved the system and we passed the accreditation for Infection Prevention and Control.
• Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.

• Managed a Primary Health Care Clinic in a Pharmacy.
• Did Health Education at primary care level.
• Gave a comprehensive sexual health service care.
• Did minor dressings and first aid.
• Worked in collaboration with the GP and Pharmacist.
• Achievements: When I started this clinic 50 clients attended the clinic per month. Over 10 years I built the clinic up to 1000 patients per month.

• Gained experience in private hospital in South Africa in various fields of nursing: Medical, Surgical, Neonatal, Plastic Surgery, Gynaecology and Urology.
• RN Primary Health Care and Sexual Health.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Equipped patients with tools and knowledge needed for speedy and sustained recovery.
• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
• Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.