Susan Guthrie
Dunedin,Otago
Summary
I am an organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. I have a willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. I am a patient-oriented nurse with 22 years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision and department operations.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, PACU
Mercy Hospital Dunedin
01.2018 - Current
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with anaesthetists in achieving patient outcomes.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Managed care from admission to PACU to discharge to the ward.
- Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.
- Oversaw delivery of care for patients in the unit, providing direct care, delegating nurses and supervising team of nurses.
- Provided clinical instructions to orientate new nurses and student nurses to achieve training outcomes.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Conducted ongoing monitoring and evaluations of behaviours and conditions, and updated clinical supervisors with current information.
Registered Nurse
Mercy Hospital Dunedin
01.2011 - 01.2018
- McAuley was a busy ward with over 40 bed capacity.
- The ward I worked on was a post-operative ward in a private hospital.
- The patients I cared for included both children and adults.
- The elective surgical ward had major surgical patients and overnight-stay patients.
- The hospital covered a large demographic area with patients often traveling from Central Otago and Southland.
- As a senior RN, I had the opportunity to role model junior nurses, preceptor students and take on a leadership role through coordinating
- As a level 3 nurse, I worked as a senior member when in nursing teams with others.
- I liaised with members of the multidisciplinary team such as physios, dietitians, occupational nurses as well and pharmacy.
- I also had a close working relationship with both the surgeons and anaesthetists as there were no junior doctors or registrars at Mercy Hospital.
- I collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- I organized and managed care of patients who had undergone various therapies and procedures from admission to discharge.
- I provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
Registered Nurse, PACU
Capital & Coast District Health Board
06.2008 - 12.2008
- Type of Unit Recovery Unit (PACU)
- Key Role and Clinical Responsibilities:
- Post-anesthetic care in a busy city hospital
- I had a short time here but I gained a wide variety of skills
- At Wellington Hospital the fast pace and diversity of patients were invaluable in developing my skill set whilst working here
- Patients had minor procedures such as line insertion (PICC, Epidural), as well as planned procedures
- PACU patients were stabilised here until an ICU bed was available for complex neurosurgical patients for example
- Airway management and pain management were a major part of my role
- Nurses in this PACU managed arterial and central lines.
Registered Nurse
Capital & Coast District Health Board
09.2007 - 06.2008
- Short Stay Unit (SSU)
- The short-stay unit was a 14-bed unit adjacent to the emergency department
- The purpose of the short-stay unit was to better manage acute patients from the Emergency Department so as to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions
- Patients were admitted for observation alongside medical and surgical patients requiring rapid assessment and planning
- A key role included appropriate clinical decision-making, priority access to the laboratory, radiology, and other diagnostic planning
- I worked collaboratively with internal and external teams
- Up to 6 patients were observed with telemetry monitoring proceeding to high-dependency care if required
- A major goal was to discharge up to 80% of patients to their homes within 24 hours
- When a patient approached the 24-hour timeline, a transfer to an inpatient bed was made
- I was involved with the multi-disciplinary team which included other services and community providers to ensure that appropriate care and discharge planning were in place for some patients.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Auckland District Health Board, ADHB
04.2004 - 11.2006
- Assessment and Planning Unit
- Type of Unit
- Admission and Planning Unit (APU) was an extremely busy unit catering for patients direct from GPs, Ambulance direct admissions as well as overflow of patients from the emergency department (ED) next door
- Both medical and surgical patients were admitted here
- Patients were kept for up to 36 hours on the unit and discharged home or transferred for ongoing treatment and investigation within the hospital setting
- APU had 50 patients with an additional ambulatory care area
- Within the unit, patients could be nursed in isolation, have cardiac monitoring, and have high-dependency nursing
- Key Role and Clinical Responsibilities
- As a level three nurse my role was to provide culturally appropriate nursing care
- I provided safe and thorough nursing care through my practice and skills in patient assessments, documentation, planning, and evaluating of patient care
- I managed the care of patients with complex needs using evidence-based decisions
- I promoted teamwork by working in a collaborative manner within the healthcare team
- I would seek support from the Clinical Charge Nurse (CNN), as well as from peers
- I worked well under stress and coordinated in HDU on occasion
- I maintained movement in APU in dealing with admissions and ensured timely discharges
- I demonstrated professional accountability and leadership by using protocols and liaising with the multidisciplinary team
- I collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- I trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- I managed care from admission to discharge.
- I delivered high level of quality care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on acuity and appropriate department admission.
Community Health Nurse-District Nurse
Waiheke Health Trust
08.2005 - 04.2006
- Key Role and Clinical Responsibilities
- I provided effective nursing care in accordance with designated standards of practice, policies, and procedures
- I participated in an integrated Community Health Care Service that promotes and delivers healthcare for both long and short-term goals
- I participated in quality assurance and quality service programs
- I provided practical nursing assessments, interventions, support, and education
- Nursing treatment activities were delivered promptly and effectively using my own initiative and with the help of the senior nurse or practice nurse
- I provided home nursing care for aged, chronically/ terminally ill patients, and people with disabilities through liaison with GPs and other appropriate persons/agencies regarding clients' condition and progress
- I provided post-operative patients recently discharged from hospital information advice and teaching to assist and support the client/family Referrals to other agencies were made as required
- I was involved in undertaking communicable disease control and surveillance
- We provided the Meningococcal B vaccine by undertaking the training course provided in order to fully vaccinate over 1,000 school children on Waiheke Island.
Junior Staff Nurse
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
05.2001 - 01.2003
- Berwick ward was a general medical ward, which specialised in Cardiology and Rheumatology
- This ward had 28 beds, with long-term and acute elderly medical patients
- This ward had cardiac patient’s pre and post procedures including coronary angiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and insertion of permanent pacemakers
- Post-surgical patients were admitted from Brighton or London following coronary artery Bi -Pass and valve replacement surgeries for rehab
- Patients here required inotropic infusions, had unstable angina, and were post myocardial infarction and thrombolysis.
- As a junior nurse, my key roles and responsibilities were to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate all aspects of patient care, for an identified group of patients, from admission through to discharge
- I managed a group of patients and delivered evidence-based nursing care to the highest possible standard.
- I worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
- Observed patient behaviour and reported changes to nurse in charge for resolution.
Education
Level Three Delegate TrainingTraining Facility -
NZNO Dunedin Branch
NZNO Dunedin 2023
Graduate Certificate Nursing - Nursing
ARA Institute Christchurch
Christchurch, NZ2022
Diploma - Nursing Studies
University Of Brighton, Institute Of Nursing Midwifery
Brighton University United Kingdom05.2001
Skills
- Patient Recovery Assessments
- Patient Education
- Operational Procedures
- Health Education
- Anesthesia Recovery
- Recovery Guidance
- Medication Administration
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Cardiac Advanced Life Support
- Assessment Techniques
Accomplishments
- Cardiology ward nursing
- Medical nursing
- Assessment and Planning Unit (ED)
- District Nursing
- Short Stay Unit
- Recovery Unit (PACU) Public Hospital
- Surgical Nursing (Mercy Hospital)
- Recovery Unit (PACU) Private Hospital
Affiliations
2001 Entry to the UKCC Nursing register
2004 Entry to the Nursing Council New Zealand register 2006 NZNO membership
2019 Perioperative Nurses College membership
Timeline
Registered Nurse, PACU
Mercy Hospital Dunedin
01.2018 - Current
Registered Nurse
Mercy Hospital Dunedin
01.2011 - 01.2018
Registered Nurse, PACU
Capital & Coast District Health Board
06.2008 - 12.2008
Registered Nurse
Capital & Coast District Health Board
09.2007 - 06.2008
Community Health Nurse-District Nurse
Waiheke Health Trust
08.2005 - 04.2006
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Auckland District Health Board, ADHB
04.2004 - 11.2006
Junior Staff Nurse
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
05.2001 - 01.2003
Level Three Delegate TrainingTraining Facility -
NZNO Dunedin Branch
Graduate Certificate Nursing - Nursing
ARA Institute Christchurch
Diploma - Nursing Studies
University Of Brighton, Institute Of Nursing Midwifery
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