Janine Opetaia
Mango Hill,Qld
Summary
Compassionate professional Clinical nurse utilizing my experience and displaying a high level of emotional intelligence working effectively with teams to achieve desired outcomes.
Employed and working in Mental health setting for seven years, a conscientious health professional providing optimal health care goals.
Respecting diversity, culturally driven to work in a country that values the Aboriginal and Torres Straight tribes.
Acknowledging the Kabi Kabi Aboriginal people of the land.
Extensive knowledge in cultural protocols from New Zealand the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa also recognising a polynesian nation of diversity.
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse
Redcliffe Caboolture Acute Care Mental Health Team
, Qld
06.2021 - Current
- Committed to providing diverse and inclusive environment for our consumers,people, all genders, race, and ages giving them inclusion in their healthcare decisions. Providing lest restrictive practice.
- Provided expert clinical care of quality to consumers with a variety of conditions. Evaluated results and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes, stayed current with health system initiatives and incorporated evidence-based practice and research into care routine.
- Displaying a high level of emotional intelligence working effectively fostering team interaction, ideas and decision making, with maximizing support for the consumer, also to support career progression of a culture development
- Maintaining high quality of consumer care building trust to deliver what matters to clients by embracing new ideas that lead to set clear expectations.
- Provided a high level of treatment with our consumers presenting to emergency departments across Redcliffe and Caboolture Hospitals.
- Authorised mental health practitioner allowing my scope of practice to sign off on consumers presenting on a EEA when consulting with a mental health psychiatrist.
- MSE assessments including risks assessments performed in a manner that allows the consumer to elaborate and make decisions in planning for admissions or discharge depending on level of insight into own mental state.
- When dealing with intoxication or drug screening this is carried out appropriately screening is performed and breathalysing.
- Acknowledging consumers as a whole including family members whom are guardians, NOK, contacting as appropriate to update them, keeping within the confidentiality procedures.
- Collaborating with security on consumers considered unwell, with aggressive behaviours whom give a level of safety for staff and consumers, lessening violence in the work place
Clinical Nurse
Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team
Caboolture, QLD
02.2021 - 05.2021
- Collaboratively worked within a team delivering timely treatment to a variety of clients- medication runs administering within the home.
- Respecting when entering homes, being mindful of traditional protocols, cultural preferences, consumer decisions to meet outside of homes.
- Working with perviously and current case managed consumers needing more intensive involvement to assist with severe and persistent mental illness, co morbid secondary diagnosis and substance abuse. Severe personality disorders.
- Preventing multiple admissions and presentations to inpatient and emergency departments.
- Monitored patients, evaluated results and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of technical procedures and proper equipment use.
- Developing care plans, recovery focused plans, weekly case reviews in collaboration with a multidisciplinary Team.
- MHRT reports and inclusion of consumers -family giving them the right to informed decisions made.
- Maintaining partnerships with consumers, collective teams involved in shaping a better focused future.
- Advised consumers on attendance to magistrate court hearings.
Mental Health Registered Nurse
Caboolture Mental Health Inpatient
Caboolture, QLD
01.2018 - 02.2021
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
- Administered medications via oral, intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
- Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
- Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
- Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
- Provided education in the form of in-service for fellow nursing colleagues and student nurses.
- Kept optimal supply levels in treatment rooms, triage and other areas to meet typical patient loads.
- Delivered proper care to victims of domestic violence at urgent care.
- Working in a PICU conducted 15 minute visual observations for safety of consumers in a highly acute environment
Clinical Nurse
Redcliffe Adult Mental Health Team
Kippa-Ring, QLD
02.2020 - 09.2020
- Case managed up to twenty four clients coordinating appointments for medical reviews, home visits, medication compliance, depot administration, physical observations, monitoring of health, supportive counselling one to one.
- Responding to emergency situations with speed, expertise and level headed approaches to provide optimal care and support for life saving interventions.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration effectively to manage treatments for consumers with a wide range of concerns.
- Liaising with the team and adapted individualized treatments, plans according to consumer recovery goals
- Assessing consumer conditions,concerns, monitored behaviours and updated supervising physicians with all observations.
- Competencies providing relevant information, on community networks, QCAT to NDIS referrals.
Registered Nurse
Te Whetu Tawera Auckland Mental Health Hospital
Auckland City, New Zealand
02.2015 - 02.2017
- Assessed patients' physical and mental status by analyzing complaints and symptoms.
- Educated patients and family members about medical conditions and mental health, medications, treatments and preventive measures.
- Created and implemented group therapies and programs to help patients improve or regain coping abilities.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints and current symptoms.
- Advocated for and strived to protect health, safety and rights of patient.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
- Promoted patient and family comfort during challenging recoveries to enhance healing and eliminate non-compliance problems.
- Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels and behaviours to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
- Recorded details regarding therapies to keep patient charts updated.
- Documentation relevant to consumers allocated at time of shift, handing over to oncoming staff of various shifts.
- Collaborating with security guards as a part of the team that provided insight into level of safety managed with agitated and violent consumers.
- Debriefing of colleagues, consumers in supervision offering support when ever needed
Education
Bachelor of Science - Postgraduate of Masters
Auckland University Technology
Auckland New Zealand 06.2014
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Science
Manukau Institute of Technology
Auckland New Zealand 01.2011
Skills
- Oral and Written Communications
- Compliance Monitoring
- In-Service Training
- Resource Instruction
- Treatment Program Planning
- Staff Assessments
- Protocol Review
- Nursing Procedure Development
- Health Information Policy and Procedure Development
- Medical Condition Monitoring
- Patient Consultations
- Patient Testing
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Diagnosis and Treatment
- Patient Record Analysis
- Nursing Staff Supervision
- Therapy and Counselings
- Reading Comprehension
- Patient Interviews
- Patient and Family Liaison
- Patient Health Information Access
- Operational Standards
Timeline
Clinical Nurse
Redcliffe Caboolture Acute Care Mental Health Team
06.2021 - Current
Clinical Nurse
Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team
02.2021 - 05.2021
Clinical Nurse
Redcliffe Adult Mental Health Team
02.2020 - 09.2020
Mental Health Registered Nurse
Caboolture Mental Health Inpatient
01.2018 - 02.2021
Registered Nurse
Te Whetu Tawera Auckland Mental Health Hospital
02.2015 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Postgraduate of Masters
Auckland University Technology
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Science
Manukau Institute of Technology
Hobbies
Enjoy outdoor activities
swimming
travelling
cooking
meeting people from every culture and nations
References
Nikoli Lester Nurse Manager of Mental Health Ward One
Alison greenwood Nurse Manager of SMHRU
Hobbies
Enjoy outdoor activities
swimming
travelling
cooking
meeting people from every culture and nations
Hobbies
Enjoy outdoor activities
swimming
travelling
cooking
meeting people from every culture and nations
Hobbies
Enjoy outdoor activities
swimming
travelling
cooking
meeting people from every culture and nations
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