Jacqui Badger

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• On call for emergency cardiac conditions, eg STEMI, pacemaker implants, pericardiocentesis.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans. Scrubbing for cardiac procedures, including angiograms, angioplasty, pacemakers, defibrillators, transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

Working in a Dermatology/ Cosmetic Appearance medicine private practice.

Assisting with minor skin surgery and liposuction and facelifts.

Running botox clinics.

Working as a scrub nurse and circulating nurse, specializing in Ear, Nose and Throat surgery and Urology surgery.

Working as part of a team in acute theatres.

Collecting blood, plasma, platelets from blood donors.

Travelling to other locations in the South Island, to assist with collection of blood products.

Worked in Interventional Radiology assisting with angiograms.

Assisted with patients having CT scans and MRI scans and biopsies.

Inserted PICC lines and was on call for after hour emergencies.