Ruth Eleanor Cammell

• Registered Nurse in Salisbury Unit, Hospital level care.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Wound management
• Emotional support for clients and families/Whanau

• Registered Nurse for all care levels (part-time and casual)
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Attend to wounds and give appropriate treatment
• Emotional support for clients and families/Whanau

• Collaborated with faculty and staff to create meaningful learning experiences.
• Created positive and safe learning environment for students on line.
• Selected and designed lesson plans and curriculum to meet academic objectives.
• Marking and moderating assessments on line

• Registered Nurse for Hospital Floor
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Attend to wounds and give appropriate treatment
• Emotional support for clients and families/Whanau

• Tutoring students on line, clinical room and classroom,for the Level 3 and Level 4 'health and wellbeing course' (HCA's).
• Supported students in the clinical area.
• Marking and moderating of assessments.

• Coordinating clinical drug studies
• Duties include recruiting and retention of patients throughout the duration of the study within a set protocol whilst maintaining 'good clinical practice'
• Precise data collection and documentation essential.

• Sole Nurse with a ward clerk preparing patients on the day of surgery
• Taking vital signs, ECGs etc sometimes up to 30 patients a day
• If they didn't get to surgery, I had to organise a ward or send them home for surgery the next day
• Dealing with upset patients and families during waiting time and repeated cancellations.
• Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.

• Provide afterhours clinical support for ward Nurses
• This involved going to every ward and assessing all the clinically unstable patients on the wards and supporting the staff with the clinical management of them
• Attending all emergency calls
• Ensuring safe staffing levels
• Conflict management of staff, patients and family/whanau
• Planned and impromptu teaching sessions.

• Safely monitoring and caring for patients from admission from theatre to discharge.
• Manage pain and observe for bleeding.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient assessments and treatment plans.

• Provide afterhours clinical support for ward Nurses
• This involved going to every ward and assessing all the clinically unstable patients on the wards and supporting the staff with the clinical management of them
• Attending all emergency calls
• Ensuring safe staffing levels
• Conflict management of staff, patients and family/whanau
• Planned and impromptu teaching sessions.

Worked full time but Nursed in a variety of wards and units where they were short-staffed on that day.

• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, inotropic support, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
• Set up and monitor Renal Dialysis.
• Attend to burns patients, multi organ failure, medical, surgical, orthopaedic, plastics, sepsis, trauma.
• Demonstrated strong leadership abilities by acting as a charge nurse on various shifts, providing guidance and support to colleagues during challenging situations in acute care settings.

• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, and rehabilitation.
• Provide monitoring and education to Cardiac Care patients, post MI and post stenting or angiograms.

• Safely monitoring and caring for patients from admission from theatre to discharge.
• Manage pain and observe for bleeding.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient assessments and treatment plans.
• Educate patient and assist with discharge information

• Provided Nursing care to patient's with acute medical problems, such as CHF, diabetes, COPD, PE's to name a few.
• Reduced hospital readmission rates by coordinating comprehensive discharge plans with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Participated in ongoing educational opportunities to stay current on best practices and maintain licensure requirements as an Acute Care Nurse.

• Nursing Care for patient's who had sustained an acute Stroke.
• Give medication, vital signs and assist with rehabilitation in collaboration with the medical team, physiotherapist.
• Educate patients and their family/Whanau on best treatment and assist with discharge plans.

• New Graduate Registered Nurse in, Hospital level care.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Wound management
• Emotional support for clients and families/Whanau