Navinesh Navinit Kumar

• Completing initial assessment and subsequent re-assessments of current residents and new admission to the facility
• Maintaining good hand hygiene
• Ensuring and maintaining infection prevention at the facility
• Planning Nursing care for the residents.
• Delivering and delegating planned care to Health Care Assistants
• Accurately communicating and recording care requirements and health status documentation on V- Care
• Re-assessing and evaluating planned care as required for residents.
• Participating and contributing to care review and communicating with relevant health professionals from the multidisciplinary team
• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Ensure patients privacy and confidentiality is maintained for the residents
• Advocating on behalf of resident.
• Administered medications via oral, sub-cut and intramuscular injections and monitored responses. monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
• provide prescribed drugs to patients as per physician orders through the use of Medi-Map and through verbal orders over phone.
• Monitoring of vital observation
• Managed care from admission to discharge and transfer to other facility
• Maintaining and ordering Medication stocks through Medi-Map
• Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans for complex patients with multiple comorbidities.
• Skillfully managed challenging patient situations using de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention strategies, and therapeutic communication skills. ( Resident's with Dementia)
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices in nursing care and emerging trends in healthcare delivery.
• Providing resident, relatives and significant others with timely and pertinent information.
• Consulting with residents and/or family / whanau on issues relating to the resident and their care.
• Prioritizing, directing, and monitoring care staff activities.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Provided support for patients'' families during difficult medical decisions or end-of-life care, serving as a liaison between the healthcare team and loved ones.
• Providing informal training as required to Health care assistants, Student nurses, cleaner, kitchen hand and other facility staffs.
• Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels, and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
• Wound care assessment and management for simple and complex wounds
• Demonstrated expertise in wound management techniques resulting in accelerated healing times for patients with complex wounds or pressure injuries.
• Supervising the care staff (Health Care Assistants and student nurses).
• Replacing staff as needed in consultation with Manager / on call Manager.
• Implemented evidence-based fall prevention strategies, resulting in a significant decrease in patient falls within the unit.
• Shift supervisor after-hours managing residents and staffs.
• Providing feedback to Unit Manager and relevant others anything that will affect the day-to-day operation of ward / unit and untoward events.
• Consistently act as a role model for safe work practice
• Promoted a culture of safety within the healthcare facility by participating in quality improvement initiatives, identifying potential hazards, and advocating for best practices in nursing care delivery.
• Complying with the Health and Safety at Work Act, relevant legislation and regulations and facility policies and procedures.

• Provide care plans for residents as required.
• Managing shift and running the floor as an acting RN.
• Communicating with residents and their families/whanau in order to enhance resident care
• Maintaining accurate documentation on V- Care
• Complete nursing assessments of residents
• Wound care assessment and management for simple and complex wounds
• Delegation of duties and allocation in a shift
• Provide all appropriate care to patients according to doctor’s order.
• provide prescribed drugs to patients as per physician orders through the use of Medi-Map and through verbal orders over phone.
• Ensuring escalation of cares through communicating and organizing patient care with the inter-disciplinary team ( G.P, Dietician, Physio, Pharmacy, Podiatrist and social worker )
• Taking accurate Observations- Vital and recording accordingly
• Ensuring resident dietary requirements are met at meal times
• Advocating for the residents at the facility
• Ensure patients privacy and confidentiality is maintained for the residents
• Maintaining and ordering Medication stocks through Medi-Map
• Providing personal care support to our residents
• Completing duty reports
• Ensuring Health and Safety of Residents and Care staffs.
• Maintaining good hand hygiene
• Ensuring and maintaining infection prevention at the facility
• Helped feed residents who are unable to feed themselves due to disability or illness.
• Assisted in transferring patients from wheelchair or bed using appropriate techniques.
• Provided comfort measures such as back rubs and positioning of bedridden patients.
• Provided assistance to patients with activities of daily living, such as bathing and dressing.

• Set up injections and dressing tray, prepare emergency beds and set up all necessary instruments, drugs and equipment for emergencies and various procedures.
• Set up IV fluids as prescribed by doctors; provide prescribed drugs to patients as per physician orders.
• Dress wounds and give IMI, IV injections as per physician orders.
• Provide all appropriate care to patients according to doctor’s order.
• Assist doctors with minor procedures.
• Ensure patients receive oral and I.V medication as prescribed by doctors.
• Document of all nursing procedures done for each patient in patient’s folders
• Ensure patients privacy and confidentiality
• Ensure good hand hygiene
• Manage staff and allocate duties on the shift
• Checked the patient's vital signs as well as urinalysis, capillary blood glucose, fasting blood sugar and document results in files.
• Assisted patients in daily activities, doing ward rounds with doctors, opening and soaked wound for inspection, attending to pressure sores by doing hourly turns for some patients.
• Set up IV line and fluids also administer IV drugs and oral medications as prescribed by doctors, dress wounds, emptied urine bags, change soaked linens and assist doctors in carrying out procedures.
• Assessed the progress of labor and monitored the partogram, participated in actual delivery of infants, referred to midwife or doctor on call on any emergencies.
• Cared for new-borns (checking vital sign)
• Supervised breastfeeding, examination postnatal mothers for lactation, uterine involution, lochia and any wound site sustained in the process of delivery.
• Give oral medication as ordered.
• Counselled STI, diabetic and hypertensive patients.
• Attending to IMCI cases from 0-5 years old, assessed and treated accordingly, referral to Medical officer for admission.
• Accompanied patients via ambulance to major hospital for ward admission and further management
• Maintaining, ordering and stocking of drugs and equipment in the ward.
• Held additional responsibility as charge nurse for overseeing patient care and arranging ambulances for transferring patients to major hospitals

• Preparation of patients preoperatively & provision of Post-op care.

• Assessment & management of patient conditions acutely and chronically.

• Wound Care management

• Monitoring (including vital signs) & escalation of cares including provision of patient education

• Medication management which included Administration & Evaluation

• Comprehensive health care Management ( from admission to discharge planning)

• Documentation of nursing cares and interventions

• Working with the Multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes for patients

• Analyzing and assessing an individual's needs and drawing up a focused support plan.

• Working with other professionals, such as doctors and therapists, to ensure consistency of support.

• Understanding their communication needs and adapting your communication to each individual e.g. sounds, tones, body language.

• General Medical Ward

medical nursing, drug administration and infusions, admissions and discharges

• Surgical Ward

care of pre and post- operative surgical patients

• I.C.U

care for critically ill and ventilated patients, drug administration and

infusions, advanced life support

• Recovery Ward

Assisting patients in their immediate post-operative needs

• P.I.C.U

care for critically ill and ventilated children drug administration

and infusion, Advance life support

• N.I.C.U

care for critically ill and ventilated neonates, drug administration

and infusion, Advance life support

Maternity I.C.U

• Labour ward

admission and monitoring of pregnant mums in active phase of labor, assisting in

deliveries, care and monitoring for new born babies

• Children’s ward

childhood illness assessment and treatment for children from 1 month up to 5 years,

identifying danger signs, treatment and referrals

• Emergency Department

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, basic life support,

emergency care, triage, drug administration, retrieve ambulance cases

• Mental Health Department

mental status examination, drug administration, assist with hygiene need

• Leprosy ward
• T.B ward
• Special Outpatients Department