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SUB: APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF ASSOCIATE NURSE MANAGER
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Jothy Korathu Balakrishnan

Invergarcill

Summary

To secure a suitable position in Nursing where my skills and experience will be utilized to enhance organizational goals, and where advancement is based on performance. Experienced and compassionate nurse dedicated to leading healthcare teams in delivering high-quality patient care. Committed to fostering a supportive work environment, optimizing operational efficiency, and implementing evidence-based nursing practices. Passionate about mentoring staff, driving professional development, and ensuring excellence in healthcare delivery.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Critical care educator/ Co-Ordinator

Southland Hospital
08.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Southland Hospital is well equipped for its size and features digital radiology technology with MRI and CT capability as well as electronic patient management system. The hospital is a teaching facility, affiliated to the University of Otago and its Dunedin School of Medicine. There are also close ties with the School of Nursing at Invercargill's Southern Institute of Technology.
  • Develop and implement nursing curriculum and educational programs
  • Conduct lectures, workshops, and study days on nursing topics
  • Supervise clinical practice and provide feedback to students.
  • Stay updated with latest research and advancement of nursing.
  • Schedule and assign staff to specific duties, ensuring optimal shift coverage and addressing any immediate staffing shortages.
  • Monitor employee performance and provide real-time feedback to improve efficiency and service quality during shifts.
  • Implement and enforce health and safety protocols to ensure a safe working environment for all employees.
  • Facilitate communication between team members and between shifts, ensuring smooth handovers and continuity of operations
  • Attending doctors rounds and help to deliver treatment according to patient condition.
  • Liase with muti diciplinary team and organize patient care and treatment.
  • Unit: Critical Care Unit (Adult & Paediatric)

Senior Clinical Nurse

Sidra Medicine
06.2018 - 06.2024
  • Company Overview: Sidra Medicine provides children and women with outstanding tertiary healthcare services in an innovative and ultramodern facility specially designed to promote healing. Sidra Medicine ranked top among academic medical centres at the world level. It delivers leading clinical and translational research of value to the population of Qatar and the world.
  • Performing diagnostic tests such as electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, stress tests, Holter monitors, and other tests to evaluate heart function.
  • Evaluating the patient’s physical condition, vital signs, and overall health status
  • Recording medical histories, including family health problems and current medications.
  • Preparing patients for surgery by sterilizing skin and applying preoperative medications.
  • Providing emotional support to patients, families, and visitors
  • Administering intravenous medications or performing other nursing duties to assist in the treatment of patients with critically ill.
  • Educating patients about their condition and treatment options
  • Coordinating care with other healthcare providers, including physicians and surgeons.
  • Precepting new staff & students.
  • Taking part in ward meetings and giving lectures on specific topics on the ward level.
  • Unit: Critical Care Unit (Adult & Paediatric)

Senior Staff Nurse

Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick children
05.2009 - 05.2018
  • Company Overview: An acute paediatrics teaching hospital with 248 beds, employing over 1,500 staff. It is Ireland's largest pediatric hospital and is responsible for the provision of most of the tertiary care services for children including the national centre for cardiac surgery and haematology/oncology, major burns, medical genetics, and medical research for childhood illnesses. The hospital is built on a site of approximately 5 hectares. The Hospital treats yearly over 24,500 inpatients and day cases, 30,100 Emergency Department attendances, and 76,000 Outpatient attendances and performs over 13,500 operating procedures. The Post Cardiac ICU provides treatment & care for Pediatric Cardiac Babies including babies in Extracorporeal Life Support (ECMO); also delivers care for all congenital pediatric illnesses.
  • Caring Pre and Post-Cardiac babies in Ventilators, high-frequency oscillator Ventilators (HFOV) and Nitric Oxide.
  • Providing nursing care to preterm babies with all congenital illnesses
  • Carry out nursing procedures according to the policy and procedures of the Hospital.
  • Taking part in ward meetings and giving lectures on specific topics at the ward level to maintain a high standard of family-centred nursing care in treating patients and families.
  • Receiving patients soon after surgery & taking care of all the respiratory needs of the patients.
  • Participating in Continuing Education Programs and Hospital research projects
  • Proper planning for transferring babies to the ward after the condition is stabilized.
  • Can work Servo I & 300 ventilators, Hewlett Packard monitors, Defibrillators, IABP Infusion pumps, ECG Machine.
  • Participating in Newborn screening programmed classes, obtaining blood from babies for the test
  • Educating parents on the importance of Respiratory and cardiac health.
  • Unit: Intensive care Unit (Paediatric)

Charge Nurse

The MIOT Hospital
01.2008 - 09.2008
  • Company Overview: The MIOT Hospital is a large 450-bedded hospital in Chennai. Teaching & Acute General Hospital, providing patient care in all major specialities, including general surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic & urology, All Major specialities include Cardiac, Respiratory, Hematology, Radiotherapy, Diabetic, Neuron medical, Renal etc.
  • To maintain a high standard of professional quality nursing care & assess the level of the bio-psycho-socio individual patient to identify & fulfil most of their needs.
  • Receive and transfer patients to other institutes & within the Hospital.
  • Working with ventilators, Dragger, HP Hewlett Packard monitors, Defibrillators, IABP Infusion
  • Coordinating daily administrative duties, including schedules, nursing assignments and patient care.
  • Overseas patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
  • Providing training to new staff and supporting other clinical staff.
  • Unit: Intensive Care Unit (Adult & Paediatric)

Staff Nurse

The Royal Hospital
08.2000 - 08.2007
  • Company Overview: The Royal Hospital is a large 650 bedded hospital territory, Teaching & Acute General Hospital, providing patient care in all major specialities, including general surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, urology, day surgery unit and gynaecology surgery. All Major specialities include Cardiac, Respiratory, Hematology, Radiotherapy, Diabetic, Neuron medical, Renal etc. The PCSU is an 8 bedded unit (4 Adult & 4 Pediatric) with 2 isolated beds for the infected cases, with a staff comprised of 5 ward nurses covering all the shifts. The PCSU unit caters for cardiothoracic patients in the entire of Oman. Each patient has one nurse to give comprehensive nursing care and monitor all the time.
  • Examine patients and take vital signs analyzing physical conditions.
  • Caring for cardiac surgery patients providing a high standard of nursing care to each patient
  • In meeting their special needs. Assess any abnormality of parameters and alert the doctor.
  • Carry out any nursing procedures according to the policy & procedures of the Hospital.
  • Taper & stop the inotropes according to the improvement of parameters.
  • Taking part in ward meetings & giving lectures on specific topics at ward levels.
  • Care of patient while removing invasive lines and chest tubes.
  • Proper planning for transferring the patient to the ward.
  • Providing care to ventilator patients and managing all respiratory illnesses.
  • Unit: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (Adult & Paediatric)

Shift Coordinator

Ramachandra Medical College and Deemed University
02.1995 - 06.2000
  • Company Overview: Ramachandra Medical College is a tertiary referral centre for patients with cardiovascular disease from all over India, as well as neighbouring countries in the subcontinent. The ICU does 4 procedures approximately a day, including the entire spectrum of neonatal, valvular, and coronary artery disease.
  • Examine patients and take vital signs analyzing physical conditions.
  • To maintain a high standard of professional quality nursing care in Clinical Nursing & assess the bio-psycho-socio individual patient to identify & fulfil themost level of their needs.
  • Organizing the transfer of the patients to other institutes & within the Hospital.
  • Can work Servo 900 & 300 ventilators, Dragger, Ventilator (Evitta – 4), HP Hewlett Packard monitors, Defibrillators, IABP Infusion pumps, ECG Machine.
  • Providing care to ventilator patients and managing all respiratory illnesses.
  • Carry out any nursing procedures according to the policy & procedures of the Hospital.
  • Coordinating daily administrative duties, including schedules, nursing assignments and patient care.
  • Unit: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (Adult & Paediatric)

Education

MSc Nursing - Occupational Health

Cork City University
01.2022

BSc Nurse Management - undefined

Royal College of Surgeon
01.2013

Diploma in General Nursing & Midwifery - undefined

Tamil Nadu Nurses & Midwives Council
01.1994

Skills

  • Responsibility
  • Hard Working
  • Punctual and Patience
  • Ability to work in teams
  • Compassion
  • Strong communication skills
  • Resilience
  • Problem solving skills
  • Assessment and evaluation
  • Paediatric critical care
  • Ventilator management

Certification

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support December 2024
  • Advanced Pediatric Life Support November 2022
  • Preceptor ship Skill’s Feb 2025
  • PatientManual Handling Feb 2025
  • IV Drug Administration & Drug Calculations September 2024
  • Advanced Ventilation Study Day October 2010
  • Foundation Course in ICU July 2010
  • Basic ECG Interpretation for Nurses November 2001

SUB: APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF ASSOCIATE NURSE MANAGER

  • Dear Sir / Madam
  • Regarding the above subject, I would like to introduce myself. I am Jothy a Registered Nurse Having current APHRA Australia Registration and APC from the New Zealand Nursing Council. And an Irish citizen, Having an MSc in Nursing in Occupational Health from Cork City University Ireland and a BSc in Nurse Management from the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
  • Presently working as critical care educator in southland hospital..I am responsible for the new RNs orientation & health learn programmes.Monitoring the mandatory study days of Critical care RNs & HCAs. I have helped in quality management team. I have years of work experience. (25 + years) working in the Critical care unit. Airway management and caring for ventilator patients Both adult & pediatric patients.I have conducted study days for the RNs. Assited with my manager in recruiting new RNs for critical care unit.
  • Six years of senior nurse experience in Sidra medicine, Qatar.10 years experience in Ireland in a Cardiac Critical Care unit. (Our Lady’s Hospital Ireland)
  • For another 7 years, I worked in Oman, Royal Hospital, Muscat as a senior staff Nurse. This is also a cardiovascular unit. 7 years worked in India (Sri Ramachandra Medical College & deemed university) Here I was working as a shift coordinator & supervisory Nurse. It is a cardiovascular critical care unit both adult and paediatric patients.
  • I have attached my detailed curriculum vitae for your kind perusal.Given an opportunity to work, I can assure you that I will work towards the satisfaction of my superiors and fulfil the organizational objectives to the maximum level possible.

Disclaimer

It would be my pleasure to deliver any further information as and when required in this regard. 20/06/25 Korathu Balakrishnan Jothy

Timeline

Critical care educator/ Co-Ordinator

Southland Hospital
08.2024 - Current

Senior Clinical Nurse

Sidra Medicine
06.2018 - 06.2024

Senior Staff Nurse

Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick children
05.2009 - 05.2018

Charge Nurse

The MIOT Hospital
01.2008 - 09.2008

Staff Nurse

The Royal Hospital
08.2000 - 08.2007

Shift Coordinator

Ramachandra Medical College and Deemed University
02.1995 - 06.2000

BSc Nurse Management - undefined

Royal College of Surgeon

Diploma in General Nursing & Midwifery - undefined

Tamil Nadu Nurses & Midwives Council

MSc Nursing - Occupational Health

Cork City University

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