Shigil Gopalakrishnan

• Experience of working as Nurse–In-Charge of in ward 21.
• Bed management, monitoring and maneuvering patient inflow / outflow. Managing staffing shortages, critical incidents.
• Managing patients with challenging behaviors
• Orientating and supervising new staff
• Current proficient level-3 PDRP.
• Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.

• Monitored patient condition with a broad variety of physical health issues.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Nurse in charge after hours duty during after hours.
• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments and supervising team comprised of nurses, and other technicians.
• Attending bed management meeting and planning and coordinating patient flow.

• Worked in different aged care facilities across lower north Island
• Advocated for consumers by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals.
• Collaborated with physicians to discuss and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each consumer and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Provided direct care to consumers, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Quality initiatives to develop and maintain care plan based on InterRAI, Long Term Care Facility module.
• Management of staff, rostering, conflict resolution.

• Advocated for consumers by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals.
• Collaborated with physicians to discuss and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each consumer and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Provided direct care to consumers, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Quality initiatives to develop and maintain care plan based on InterRAI, Long Term Care Facility module.
• Management of staff, rostering, conflict resolution.

• Advocated for consumers by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals.
• Collaborated with physicians to discuss and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each consumer and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Provided direct care to consumers, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Quality initiatives to develop and maintain care plan based on InterRAI, Long Term Care Facility module.
• Management of staff, rostering, conflict resolution.

• Worked as scrub and floor nurse in a multi specialty operation theatre.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Assisting in surgical procedures.
• Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.

I was trained as a new graduate from this hospital where I worked on a rotatory basis in different specialties for one year