Hi, I’m
FLORE NZOUTCHOUM
Brockville,Ontario
Summary
Compassionate Nurse with experience in offering comprehensive patient care in outpatient and inpatient environments. Works well with diverse patient populations and fosters trusting relationships to improve outcomes. Efficiently coordinate with healthcare professionals to advance patient care.
Overview
9
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
St Lawrence Long Term Care HomeBrockville, ON
Personal Support Worker
Current
Job overview
- Assist residents with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting.
- Assist residents with mobility, including transferring between bed and wheelchair, and using mobility aids like lifts.
- Support residents with medication reminders as per care plans.
- Provide emotional support and companionship, engage clients in conversation and activities to promote mental well-being.
- Prepare nutritious meals and assist clients with eating, ensuring dietary needs are met.
- Observe and report changes in residents’ health status, such as vital signs, mobility, and behavior.
- Advocate for clients’ rights, ensuring they have access to necessary services and support.
- Observe clients’ progress and changes in condition, documenting and reporting findings to supervisor.
- Provide support during crises, help clients manage stress and access emergency services if needed.
- Assist with light housekeeping, including cleaning personal spaces and ensuring a safe living environment.
- Encourage and assist residents in participating in recreational and social activities to promote engagement and well-being.
Florence AgencyBrockville, ON
Unlicensed Care Provider (Casual)
Current
Job overview
- Follow health and safety protocols to ensure the well-being of residents and staff in the retirement home.
- Prepare medications for residents, including organizing pillboxes or sorting medications according to daily schedules.
- Assist clients in taking medications as prescribed, assist with non-invasive medication administration and monitor for any side effects or changes in condition.
- Provide residents with basic information about their medications, such as purpose and potential side effects, while ensuring to refer complex questions to licensed personnel.
- Assist with daily living, help clients with daily activities such as personal hygiene, meal preparation, and household tasks.
- Provide emotional support and companionship, engage clients in conversation and activities to promote mental well-being.
- Maintain accurate records of care provided and any observations regarding residents’ conditions.
- Serve as a liaison between residents and healthcare staff, ensuring residents’ needs and preferences are communicated.
- Observe and report any changes in residents’ health or behavior to the nursing staff or supervisors.
CarePartnersBrockville, ON
Community Support Worker
09.2024 - 01.2025
Job overview
- Evaluate clients' needs and develop personalized support plans to address their goals and challenges.
- Assist clients in taking medications as prescribed and monitor for any side effects or changes in condition.
- Assist with daily living, help clients with daily activities such as personal hygiene, meal preparation, and household tasks.
- Provide emotional support and companionship, engage clients in conversation and activities to promote mental well-being.
- Prepare nutritious meals and assist clients with eating, ensuring dietary needs are met.
- Connect clients with community resources, services, and programs that can assist with housing, healthcare, and employment.
- Advocate for clients’ rights, ensuring they have access to necessary services and support.
- Observe clients’ progress and changes in condition, documenting and reporting findings to healthcare manager or family members.
- Provide support during crises, help clients manage stress and access emergency services if needed.
- Help clients with transportation to appointments, social activities, or community events.
Bokova Integrated Health CenterBuea, South West Region
Registered Nurse in Charge, Medical Unit
01.2020 - 06.2024
Job overview
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
- Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
Buea Regional HospitalBuea, South West Region
Registered Nurse, Emergency Unit
01.2019 - 12.2019
Job overview
- Assessed and triaged incoming cases in order of urgency and need.
- Worked with other staff to stabilize incoming patients.
- Stitched and sutured wounds.
- Created and maintain patient records.
- Transferred stable patients to other units.
- Administered close patient care, checked vital signs, and monitored telemetry.
- Monitored each patient to meet appropriate care and documented status changes.
- Built rapport with patients and members of patients' support systems.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Cared for each patient according to care plan and physicians' instructions.
Hôpital L’Aquintini de DoualaDouala, Littoral Region
Registered Nursing Student, Psychiatry Unit
03.2018 - 03.2018
Job overview
- Collaborated with nurse preceptors and other medical staff to achieve quality patient outcome goals.
- Assessed and followed up care for patients with psychological disorders under supervision.
- Conducted intake assessments through interviews with patients and relatives to gather case history.
- Consulted with psychiatrists and other behavioral health staff in designing appropriate treatment plans for clients.
- Administered and noted reactions to psychotropic drugs and other medications.
- Assisted the client in understanding the nature of emotional disturbances and accepting the need for treatment.
- Assisted in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.
- Documented all patient information on medical charts and followed physician’s written orders.
- Maintained patient confidentiality.
Centre Hospitaliere et Universitaire (CHU)Yaoundé, Center Region
Registered Nursing Student, Intensive Care Unit
01.2018 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Received and gave verbal reports on each patient at start/end of each hospital shift.
- Prepared patients for transport to other hospital departments for testing.
- Prepared and administered medications prescribed by physicians under supervision.
- Charted all patient information in patient files for continuity of care.
- Bathed patients and changed bed sheets.
- Dressed and fed patients according to physician and supervisory nurse’s instructions.
- Oriented new patients to assigned ICU unit.
- Provided individual patient education, in accordance with accepted nursing practice and medical plan of care.
Solidarity Health FoundationBuea
Volunteer student nurse
03.2017 - 05.2017
District Hospital BonassamaDouala
Volunteer student nurse
07.2016 - 08.2016
Education
University of Buea
Master of Public Health (MPH)
01.2020
University of Buea
Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNS)
01.2018
Skills
- Preventive Health
- Feeding Assistance
- Infection Control and Aseptic Procedures
- Precepting
- Ear, Nose and Throat Care
- Patient Check-Ins
- Personal Care Needs
- Setting Up Referrals
- Indirect Patient Care
- Immunizations
- Intravenous Therapy
- Triaging
- First aid
- CPR
- Acute Care Expertise
- Infection Control Measures
- Interpersonal communication
- Excellent team worker
- Accurate record-keeping
Certification
- Brightspace CarePartners, Ontario, Canada, 2024-09-01
- St John Ambulance, Brockville ON Canada, 2024-08-06
- BIO Ventures for Global Health, UK, 2023-09-04
- UNITAR, Geneva-Switzerland, 2023-08-10
- Strengthening Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Workforce Capacity in Africa-Showcasing global Innovations, Ethiopia, 2023-07-14
- International AIDS Society, South Africa Differentiated Service Delivery for HIV Treatment: Research and policy priorities, 2022-06-01
- Buea Health District, Cameroon Immunization in practice for HCWs, 2022-05-01
- AuthorAID INASP Moodle-UK Introduction to critical thinking, 2020-07-01
- Research writing in social sciences, 2020-04-01
License Number
CRNA 130414
Personal Information
Title: REGISTERED NURSE
Timeline
Community Support Worker
CarePartners
09.2024 - 01.2025
Registered Nurse in Charge, Medical Unit
Bokova Integrated Health Center
01.2020 - 06.2024
Registered Nurse, Emergency Unit
Buea Regional Hospital
01.2019 - 12.2019
Registered Nursing Student, Psychiatry Unit
Hôpital L’Aquintini de Douala
03.2018 - 03.2018
Registered Nursing Student, Intensive Care Unit
Centre Hospitaliere et Universitaire (CHU)
01.2018 - 01.2018
Volunteer student nurse
Solidarity Health Foundation
03.2017 - 05.2017
Volunteer student nurse
District Hospital Bonassama
07.2016 - 08.2016
Personal Support Worker
St Lawrence Long Term Care Home
Current
Unlicensed Care Provider (Casual)
Florence Agency
Current
University of Buea
Master of Public Health (MPH)
University of Buea
Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNS)