Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
LNGG
Training
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS
PERSONAL DATA
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MARICHU VELARDE YAP

Auckland

Summary

Dedicated healthcare professional seeking to contribute as a healthcare assistant in a dynamic facility. Equipped with comprehensive education and training that enhance nursing knowledge, skills, and attitude. Committed to delivering exceptional patient care and ensuring a supportive environment for all individuals. Passionate about fostering positive health outcomes through compassionate, quality healthcare practices.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Waimarie Private Hospital
04.2023 - Current

Senior Nursing Aide (Home Care)

NTUC Health Co-operative Limited
02.2017 - 03.2023
  • 1) Patient Care:
  • Assist patient in personal hygiene including:
  • - Bathing and/or assisted bathing for client who is too ill to take bath in the bathroom or for bedridden or handicapped client
  • - Changing of clothes, undergarments, continence aids and any soiled sheets
  • - Brushing of teeth and cleaning of dentures
  • - Toileting and other elimination needs
  • - Incontinence and ambulation care
  • Lifting and reposition bed bound patients 2 hourly and conduct elimination rounds for non-ambulant patient
  • Transferring and mobility assistance with or without mobility aids
  • Tracheostomy care and suctioning (oral and tracheostomy tube)
  • Ostomy care
  • Oxygen administration for patient who has oxygen tank at home
  • Blood sugar monitoring
  • Insert suppository and enema per rectum
  • Perform simple wound dressing and bandaging(dry wound)
  • Feeding and assisting with oral and/or nasogastric tube feeding
  • Meal planning or assist with meals instructed by dietitian from hospital
  • Assist in administration of medications and medication reminders
  • Provide companionship and recreational activities
  • Provide mentally stimulating activities
  • Perform simple physical maintenance exercises
  • Escort for medical appointment
  • Attend to client needs and relay his/her request to the caregivers or Care Coordinators in charge
  • Monitor and record of vital signs. Report of any abnormalities
  • 2) Light Housekeeping:
  • To identify and rectify basic home hazards to prevent falls/ slips e.g. wet floor, untidy walkways that prevent easy maneuver
  • To ensure elderly’s passageway (bedroom, living room, toilet) is dry and clean by sweeping and mopping
  • To ensure that kitchen stove and table is clean after cooking by Nursing Aides
  • To wash the plates and pots after meals/ use if cooking is done by Nursing Aides
  • If washing machine is available, to wash the elderly’s clothes and hang dry indoor
  • 3) Infection Control:
  • Exercise standard precaution and hand hygiene when in contact with patients and environment or surrounding
  • Educate patients and relatives on infection control practice

Taipei Old People’s Home
02.2015 - 11.2016
  • Do assignments set by staff nurses unless necessary changes of assignment must inform staff nurses.
  • Assist Doctor and staff nurses on Clinic Days
  • Read and write the ward report
  • Assist staff nurses to pack and serve the medicine when necessary
  • Assist the staff nurses to administer oxygen for ill patients
  • Attend to emergencies immediately while on duty, need to inform, write report and submit to staff nurses in charge
  • BP must be taken 4 hourly for incidents for 48 hours
  • Head chart for 48 hours is needed when head injury is involved.
  • Report to a staff nurse if febrile.
  • Take temperature, pulse and respiration if patient developed a fever or for new patient
  • Take the BP when required for new patients on arrival and for those on daily, weekly, or monthly BP reports to staff nurse when BP is high or low.
  • Do routine urine test for new patient on arrival and analysis for diabetic patient
  • Prepare tray for ryles tube, catheters etc
  • Take care of the patient’s personal hygiene, bathing, shampoo hair, trim finger and toenails.
  • Dressing and application of cream to skin condition.
  • Assist health attendants to change diapers, soiled pajamas and bed linen.
  • Assist in serving food and feeding the non-ambulant patients.
  • Do ryles tube feeding
  • Insert ryles tube with the supervision of staff nurses
  • Insert suppositories and give enema
  • Do frequent ward rounds when on duty to prevent fall and other predictable incident

Dr. Manuel R. Rebueno Memorial Hospital
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Emergency Room
  • Outpatient Department
  • Pediatric Ward
  • Medical Surgical Ward

General Nurse/ Medical- Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Quirino Memorial Medical Center
01.2010 - 12.2012
  • Admitting/ discharging sick and well patients from intradepartmental and/ or from other institutions. Receives endorsement or take special precautions pertaining to pertinent information regarding patients’ care.
  • Make rounds to all patients and assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent or disabled patients.
  • Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients’ condition.
  • Assigning patients to bedside nurses according to the level of care needed by the patient and determining individual nursing care and appropriate delegation of tasks to provide optimum patient care.
  • Counter checks if the bedside nurses carry out doctor’s orders correctly.
  • Carries out doctor’s orders and notifies the physician any changes in patients’ condition.
  • Follow up and relay laboratory results and other diagnostics of patients. Prepares candidates for surgery/ special procedures before sending to the operation room/ diagnostic center. Counseling done and preoperative medications will be given, if any. Secure consent if needed.
  • Coordinates with other departments in the hospital related to patients’ care.
  • Health management and maintenance, illness prevention, deviations from normal health treatment, pharmacology and standard medical precautions.
  • Consult and coordinate with the health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans and special endorsement of the unit as a whole.
  • Make clinical rounds with the physicians, assist in the therapeutic or diagnostic procedures needed.
  • Provides an environment that is safe and conducive to therapeutic care. Promotes, advocates for and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the client.
  • Assists patients daily personal care tasks such as feeding (oral, osterized, parenteral), grooming, hygiene, dressing and bathing to gain patient’s independence and fast recovery.
  • Administer medications (oral/” parenteral) and educate patients and families on the types of medication and care necessary for recovery.
  • Educating patients and their families about the general health condition of the patient and offering emotional support during medical procedures.
  • Ensuring the right to privacy in the health care system and protect patient confidentiality.
  • Conveying continuation of care to promote optimal wellness.
  • Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies and ensure stocks availability is maintained.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Bicol University
01.2009

Skills

  • Certified Advanced Cardiac Life Support (basic life support for adult and pediatric), management of obstructed airways and airway adjuncts, basic electrocardiography reading, effective defibrillation and cardioversion and an intravenous therapist With valuable trainings such as basic palliative care at home, moving and handling, caring for seniors at home, infection prevention in the nursing home, and cultural competency

Certification

  • Immunologic Testing during COVID-19
  • Coping with the Stress of Coronavirus
  • Ethical and Psychosocial Issues in Management of COVID-19
  • ICU Management of COVID-19, PART I and 2
  • COVID-19 for Nursing Professionals
  • Issues on Vaccine Development for Coronavirus

LNGG

Can speak English, Tagalog and Cantonese, Malay, Deutsch

Training

  • Caring for Seniors at Home
  • CPR, AED and First Aid
  • Basic Life Support Training
  • Basic Critical Care Course
  • Overview and Basic Palliative Care at Home
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support Program
  • Infection Prevention in the Nursing Home Module 1-6
  • Moving and Handling
  • Cultural Competency
  • Basic Intravenous Therapy Program
  • Tube feeding, Tracheostomy and Ostomy care

PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Flexible, excellent personal and communication skills
  • Hardworking, can work under pressure and easily adapts to changes in the working environment
  • Basic knowledge and skills in Microsoft Office (MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel)
  • Able to work as a part of the team
  • Willing to work in a rotating shift
  • Willing to be trained and enhance my skills
  • IELTS General L 8, R 6, W 7, S 6.5

PERSONAL DATA

  • Age: 36 years old
  • Place of Birth: Legazpi City
  • Date of Birth: April 7, 1989
  • Nationality: Filipino
  • Civil Status: Single
  • Religion: Roman Catholic
  • Height: 5’6”
  • Weight: 187 lbs

Timeline

Waimarie Private Hospital
04.2023 - Current

Senior Nursing Aide (Home Care)

NTUC Health Co-operative Limited
02.2017 - 03.2023

Taipei Old People’s Home
02.2015 - 11.2016

Dr. Manuel R. Rebueno Memorial Hospital
01.2013 - 01.2015

General Nurse/ Medical- Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Quirino Memorial Medical Center
01.2010 - 12.2012

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Bicol University

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