SHEENAL SERAN PRASAD
Auckland,AUK
Summary
Compassionate Registered Nurse with extensive experience at the Ministry of Health, specializing in patient advocacy and care plan development. My career pathway as follows I was posted as a intern nurse to Labasa Divisional hospital as a general medical surgical nurse. later I was based in Nasea Health center working in a community setting as a General Practice Nurse. From where I was granted an opportunity to work as a healthcare assistant level 4 at Patrick Ferry House. Thus I moved to New Zealand while working in rest home I was granted residency visa and successfully completed my CAP Program
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cap Student Nurse
Forest Hill Homes and Hospital
Totaravale , Auckland
01.2025 - 02.2025
- Key Responsibilities
1. Assess patient needs*: Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients' physical, emotional, and cultural needs.
2. Develop care plans*: Create individualized care plans that address patients' unique needs and goals.
3. Implement nursing interventions*: Provide evidence-based nursing care, including administering medications, performing procedures, and educating patients and their families.
4. Evaluate patient outcomes*: Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of care plans and make adjustments as needed.
5. Collaborate with healthcare teams*: Work effectively with interdisciplinary teams, including doctors, therapists, and other healthcare professional
Health Care Assistant Level 4
Patrick ferry house Aged Care facility
Unsworth heights, New Zealand
07.2022 - 08.2023
- Company Overview: Aged Care Facility (74 Beds)
- Provide residents with assistance as they accomplish daily tasks, including bathing, eating, dressing, grooming, and using restroom
- Ensuring all residents take their prescribed medications
- Maintain all care records in accordance with Hospital policy and audit care records weekly to ensure accuracy
- Measure vital signs like blood pressure and temperature
- Communicate any problems, concerns or issues to residents' family members as needed
- Help patients walk with canes, walkers and other devices
- Work with dining room personnel to ensure that all residents get the correct meals and that all residents are able to eat
- Engage in housekeeping tasks such as replacing linens on beds, cleaning patient rooms and removing and replacing trash bags
- Aged Care Facility (74 Beds)
Registered Nurse
Ministry of Health
, Fiji
02.2018 - 06.2022
- Accident and Emergency Nursing
- General Out-Patients Department
- Burns Unit
- General Surgical & Orthopedics Nursing
- Intensive Care Unit-General
- Intensive Care Unit- Neonate
- Communicable Disease Nursing
- Community Health Nursing- General
- Intensive Care Unit-Post Anesthesia
- Operating Room Nursing
- Mental Health Nursing
- Coronary Intensive Care Unit
- Palliative Nursing
- Labour and Delivery Unit
- Special Clinics-Medical, Surgical, ENT
- Pre-natal Clinic/Nursing
- Sexual & Reproductive Health Nursing
- Participating in performing improvement nursing quality
- Drug and Alcohol testing as well as audiometry and respiratory testing
- Medical Nursing
- Being prepared for the procedure room nurse that is assisting doctors in attending emergency cases of seizures with shock children's, assisting in incubation and assisting in CPR
- Attending to oncology children admitted in oncology ward, providing family and the child with comfort and emotional support
- (Palliative care)
- Provide residents with assistance as they accomplish daily tasks, including bathing, eating, dressing, grooming and using restroom
- Communicate any problems, concerns or issues to resident's family members as needed
- Managing the care of the patients experience life threatening problems
- Making quick and accurate response about incoming patients
- Assisting with checking patient, doing triage work for doctors
- Participating in performance improvement, nursing quality and nursing research activities, utilise same clinical practice
- Assist physicians during examinations, treatment, and procedures
- Providing safe and therapeutic care using the values inherited in our hospital culture
- Work closely with doctors to keep patient and their family members updated on the test results or the treatment recommended
- Co-ordinating and delivery patient care utilizing the nursing process and following all established standards of practice within the province
- Accompanying cases or patients whose health conditions require knowledge, capable and equipment of a specialized hospital
- Practicing proper techniques of surgical wounds
- To maintain a high standard of nursing care for the wellbeing of the mothers and the new born at ante partum and intra partum based on the nursing decree, nursing policy and procedure manual and scope of practice
- To report to superior's officers and medical officers any abnormality detected that could be interfere with effective patient care
- Ensure that the proper basic patient care is provided in a timely manner to all antenatal patients
- Counsel and guide patient and relatives when abnormal circumstances are faced during ante period for example losing a life
- Lead other subordinates into the provision and maintain maximum level of patients care
- Advice and advocate on to importance of safe motherhood practice
- All infants and children have access to quality preventative and curative paediatric and nutritional services, multi sectional risk management and resilience for communicable disease, health emergencies and climate change
- To maintain a high standard of safety in the workplace and the necessary precaution rules and regulation of infection control
- Encouraging mothers on breastfeeding to decrease malnutrition
- Admitting children into the ward according using nursing standard and guidelines
- Encourage and supervise mothers and their children to attend personal hygiene
- Preparation for doctors rounds and carry out doctors plans as per doctor's notes
- Monitoring, counseling, demonstrating, and assisting breastfeeding mothers whose child is admitted to children's ward on proper position and attachment and burping after every feeds
- Administering of medication as per drug charts and follow up on children's immunization schedules
Education
CAP - Nursing
Wesley Institute CAP Program
Auckland, NZ02-2025
Bachelor of Nursing -
Fiji Sangam Nursing
Fiji12-2017
Skills
- Medication and dosage
- Care plan implementation
- Lab testing protocols
- Telemetry monitoring
- Patient support
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Healthcare teamwork
- Care plan development
- [Software] charting
- Quality of care standards
- Care plan management
- Vitals documentation
- Medical records management
- Taking and recording vital signs
- Test results review
- Patient care
- Personal care
- Conflict resolution
- Verbal and written communication
- First aid and CPR
- Physician collaboration
- Compassionate communication
- Patient assessment
- Personalized patient assistance
- Catheter care
- Quality assurance
- Emergency response
- Medication administration
- Patient evaluation
- Wound care
- Nursing assessments
- Wound management
- Grooming support
- Patient advocacy
- Patient vitals management
- Flexible schedule
- Cultural history
- Mobility assistance
- Emotional support
- Direct patient care
- Self-reflection
- Discharge planning
- Patient education
- Pain assessment
Certification
Registered Nurse NZ - 326152
Registered Nurse, Fiji Nursing Council - 6759, 01/31/25
Reference
Maria Balmores
Clinical Nurse Educator at Wesley Institute
Maria.Balmores@oceaniahealthcare.co.nz
PH: 021754827
Priyashna Dayal
Nurse Preceptor at Forest Hill Homes and Hospital
Priya.dayal25@yahoo.com
PH: 02041289108
Ashika Anjaleen Chand
IMCI Supervisor Northern Division Hospital - Fiji
Ashikaaanjaleenchand@gmail.com
PH: +6799405458
Timeline
Cap Student Nurse
Forest Hill Homes and Hospital
01.2025 - 02.2025
Health Care Assistant Level 4
Patrick ferry house Aged Care facility
07.2022 - 08.2023
Registered Nurse
Ministry of Health
02.2018 - 06.2022
CAP - Nursing
Wesley Institute CAP Program
Bachelor of Nursing -
Fiji Sangam Nursing
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