Hareshkumar Patel
Altona,Canada
Summary
Healthcare professional with strong background in patient care and medical support. Known for collaborative work with medical teams to deliver high-quality care and adapt to evolving patient needs. Expertise in patient assessment and medication administration, along with compassionate care and reliability.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Morris General Hospital (Southern Health)
Morris, MB
11.2024 - Current
- Monitored and provided direct care to medically complex patients.
- Ensured doctors' orders are effectively carried out, including testing, bedside procedures, mental and physical assessments, counseling, lab work, patient/ family education, patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Monitored and utilized PICC-lines, total parenteral nutrition, tube-feedings, colostomies, wound-vacs, bladder volume measurement scans (monitoring), peritoneal dialysis, foley catheters, ventilators, titration of vasoactive drugs, and set up equipment for bedside procedures, as well as, assisting the physician.
- Experienced in the care of patients with cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, and neurological disorders; end of life (comfort care) measures, pain management; as well as, postoperative care including rehabilitation
- Provided care to post-trauma, including the spinal cord, head injury, cerebral hemorrhage, or orthopedic complications; wound care, long term antibiotic therapy, renal failure, malnutrition, cancers, congestive heart failure, sepsis, uncontrolled diabetes, and/or multi-system complications.
- Provided airway management, monitored vital signs and administrated prescribed medications and IV fluids
- Documented assessment, treatments, lab, and progress in relation to daily goals in the patients record.
- Maintained knowledge of current trends and techniques in the field by reading appropriate journals, books, and other literature and attending seminars, conferences, and the like.
- Proficient in all aspects of documentation, computer and written form, and hospital policies.
- Transcribing medical orders given by the physicians, attended doctor’s rounds and carried out new orders, ensured proper administration of drugs and narcotics in compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and institution policy and procedure manual.
- Administered medications and managed patient care plans to ensure optimal health outcomes.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement effective treatment strategies.
- Led patient education sessions, enhancing understanding of health conditions and treatment options.
- Mentored junior nursing staff, fostering professional development and ensuring adherence to best practices.
- Conducted comprehensive assessments, accurately documenting patient histories and responses to treatments.
- Streamlined workflow processes within the unit, improving overall efficiency and patient satisfaction scores.
- Developed and implemented evidence-based protocols for infection control, promoting a safe environment for patients and staff.
- Facilitated communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers to enhance care coordination and support services.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Prevented the spread of infections by consistently adhering to strict infection control protocols and educating patients on proper hygiene practices.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans for complex patients with multiple comorbidities.
- Skillfully managed challenging patient situations using de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention strategies, and therapeutic communication skills.
- Improved patient outcomes by implementing evidence-based nursing interventions and individualized care plans.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices in nursing care and emerging trends in healthcare delivery.
- Provided support for patients'' families during difficult medical decisions or end-of-life care, serving as a liaison between the healthcare team and loved ones.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
- Contributed to interdisciplinary team meetings by presenting relevant clinical data about patients'' progress toward reaching established goals of care.
- Facilitated patient transitions between different levels of care, ensuring continuity of services and minimizing disruptions in treatment plans.
- Implemented evidence-based fall prevention strategies, resulting in a significant decrease in patient falls within the unit.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels, and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Followed all personal and health data procedures to effectively comply with HIPAA laws and prevent information breaches.
- Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities.
- Performed frequent checks on life support equipment and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions.
Registered Nurse
Altona Health Centre, Acute Care (Southern Health)
08.2024 - Current
- Monitored and provided direct care to medically complex patients.
- Ensured doctors' orders are effectively carried out, including testing, bedside procedures, mental and physical assessments, counseling, lab work, patient/ family education, patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Monitored and utilized PICC-lines, total parenteral nutrition, tube-feedings, colostomies, wound-vacs, bladder volume measurement scans (monitoring), peritoneal dialysis, foley catheters, ventilators, titration of vasoactive drugs, and set up equipment for bedside procedures, as well as, assisting the physician.
- Experienced in the care of patients with cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, and neurological disorders; end of life (comfort care) measures, pain management; as well as, postoperative care including rehabilitation
- Provided care to post-trauma, including the spinal cord, head injury, cerebral hemorrhage, or orthopedic complications; wound care, long term antibiotic therapy, renal failure, malnutrition, cancers, congestive heart failure, sepsis, uncontrolled diabetes, and/or multi-system complications.
- Provided airway management, monitored vital signs and administrated prescribed medications and IV fluids
- Documented assessment, treatments, lab, and progress in relation to daily goals in the patients record.
- Maintained knowledge of current trends and techniques in the field by reading appropriate journals, books, and other literature and attending seminars, conferences, and the like.
- Proficient in all aspects of documentation, computer and written form, and hospital policies.
- Transcribing medical orders given by the physicians, attended doctor’s rounds and carried out new orders, ensured proper administration of drugs and narcotics in compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and institution policy and procedure manual.
Registered Nurse
Boundary Trail health Centre, Rehab/Surg (Southern Health)
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Monitored and provided direct care to medically complex patients.
- Ensured doctors' orders are effectively carried out, including testing, bedside procedures, mental and physical assessments, counseling, lab work, patient/ family education, patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Monitored and utilized PICC-lines, total parenteral nutrition, tube-feedings, colostomies, wound-vacs, bladder volume measurement scans (monitoring), peritoneal dialysis, foley catheters, ventilators, titration of vasoactive drugs, and set up equipment for bedside procedures, as well as, assisting the physician.
- Experienced in the care of patients with cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, and neurological disorders; end of life (comfort care) measures, pain management; as well as, postoperative care including rehabilitation
- Provided care to post-trauma, including the spinal cord, head injury, cerebral hemorrhage, or orthopedic complications; wound care, long term antibiotic therapy, renal failure, malnutrition, cancers, congestive heart failure, sepsis, uncontrolled diabetes, and/or multi-system complications.
- Provided airway management, monitored vital signs and administrated prescribed medications and IV fluids
- Documented assessment, treatments, lab, and progress in relation to daily goals in the patients record.
- Maintained knowledge of current trends and techniques in the field by reading appropriate journals, books, and other literature and attending seminars, conferences, and the like.
- Proficient in all aspects of documentation, computer and written form, and hospital policies.
- Transcribing medical orders given by the physicians, attended doctor’s rounds and carried out new orders, ensured proper administration of drugs and narcotics in compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and institution policy and procedure manual.
Registered Nurse
Eastview Place PCH Altona MB (Southern Health)
01.2023 - 05.2024
- Monitored and provided direct care to medically complex patients.
- Ensured doctors' orders are effectively carried out, including testing, bedside procedures, mental and physical assessments, counseling, lab work, patient/ family education, patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Monitored and utilized PICC-lines, total parenteral nutrition, tube-feedings, colostomies, wound-vacs, bladder volume measurement scans (monitoring), peritoneal dialysis, foley catheters, ventilators, titration of vasoactive drugs, and set up equipment for bedside procedures, as well as, assisting the physician.
- Experienced in the care of patients with cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, and neurological disorders; end of life (comfort care) measures, pain management; as well as, postoperative care including rehabilitation
- Provided care to post-trauma, including the spinal cord, head injury, cerebral hemorrhage, or orthopedic complications; wound care, long term antibiotic therapy, renal failure, malnutrition, cancers, congestive heart failure, sepsis, uncontrolled diabetes, and/or multi-system complications.
- Provided airway management, monitored vital signs and administrated prescribed medications and IV fluids
- Documented assessment, treatments, lab, and progress in relation to daily goals in the patients record.
- Maintained knowledge of current trends and techniques in the field by reading appropriate journals, books, and other literature and attending seminars, conferences, and the like.
- Proficient in all aspects of documentation, computer and written form, and hospital policies.
- Transcribing medical orders given by the physicians, attended doctor’s rounds and carried out new orders, ensured proper administration of drugs and narcotics in compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and institution policy and procedure manual.
Registered Nurse
Bethammi Nursing Home, Thunder Bay, ON
12.2021 - 01.2023
- Monitored and provided direct care to medically complex patients.
- Ensured doctors' orders are effectively carried out, including testing, bedside procedures, mental and physical assessments, counseling, lab work, patient/ family education, patient admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Monitored and utilized PICC-lines, total parenteral nutrition, tube-feedings, colostomies, wound-vacs, bladder volume measurement scans (monitoring), peritoneal dialysis, foley catheters, ventilators, titration of vasoactive drugs, and set up equipment for bedside procedures, as well as, assisting the physician.
- Experienced in the care of patients with cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, and neurological disorders; end of life (comfort care) measures, pain management; as well as, postoperative care including rehabilitation
- Provided care to post-trauma, including the spinal cord, head injury, cerebral hemorrhage, or orthopedic complications; wound care, long term antibiotic therapy, renal failure, malnutrition, cancers, congestive heart failure, sepsis, uncontrolled diabetes, and/or multi-system complications.
- Provided airway management, monitored vital signs and administrated prescribed medications and IV fluids
- Documented assessment, treatments, lab, and progress in relation to daily goals in the patients record.
- Maintained knowledge of current trends and techniques in the field by reading appropriate journals, books, and other literature and attending seminars, conferences, and the like.
- Proficient in all aspects of documentation, computer and written form, and hospital policies.
- Transcribing medical orders given by the physicians, attended doctor’s rounds and carried out new orders, ensured proper administration of drugs and narcotics in compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and institution policy and procedure manual.
Health Care Aide
Thompson General Hospital (NRHA)
08.2015 - 11.2021
- Ensuring resident care is provided with established nursing standards and principles, physicians’ orders, and other administrative policies.
- Provide direction to the nursing department in the absence of the DOC.
- Develops and modifies the nursing care plan, based on assessment and evaluation.
- Implements individual, goal-directed, evidence informed nursing interventions.
Staff Nurse
Government Of Gujarat ( CRN with General Duties )
01.2009 - 02.2015
- Responsible for the planning, management and organization of the emergency department including scheduling patient admissions and discharge.
- Collects current symptoms, as well as a detailed patient history and then consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
- Manages basic life support needs and stabilizes patients until the attending physician is available, based upon nursing standards and protocol
- Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, diagnostic testing and treatments
- Prepares and administers (orally, subcutaneously, IV) and records prescribed medications.
- Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments
- Reports any suspected abuse to the appropriate agencies
- Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician. Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness/injury, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication and rehabilitation, as well as provides referrals to other healthcare professionals for follow-up treatment
- Displays professionalism while completing multiple urgent tasks in a timely manner
- Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms
- Assessed and understood the needs of the staff by collaborating with the nursing educator and patient care coordinator.
- Expended clinical knowledge and expertise by pursuing continuing education.
Staff Nurse
Civil General hospital, Gandhinagar, India ( ER & OR )
07.2008 - 12.2008
- Responsible for the planning, management and organization of the emergency department including scheduling patient admissions and discharge.
- Collects current symptoms, as well as a detailed patient history and then consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
- Manages basic life support needs and stabilizes patients until the attending physician is available, based upon nursing standards and protocol
- Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, diagnostic testing and treatments
- Prepares and administers (orally, subcutaneously, IV) and records prescribed medications.
- Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments
- Reports any suspected abuse to the appropriate agencies
- Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician. Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness/injury, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication and rehabilitation, as well as provides referrals to other healthcare professionals for follow-up treatment
- Displays professionalism while completing multiple urgent tasks in a timely manner
- Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms
- Assessed and understood the needs of the staff by collaborating with the nursing educator and patient care coordinator.
- Expended clinical knowledge and expertise by pursuing continuing education.
Staff Nurse
Avani Hospital & Neonatal Center, India
03.2008 - 07.2008
- Responsible for the planning, management and organization of the emergency department including scheduling patient admissions and discharge.
- Collects current symptoms, as well as a detailed patient history and then consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
- Manages basic life support needs and stabilizes patients until the attending physician is available, based upon nursing standards and protocol
- Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, diagnostic testing and treatments
- Prepares and administers (orally, subcutaneously, IV) and records prescribed medications.
- Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments
- Reports any suspected abuse to the appropriate agencies
- Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician. Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness/injury, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication and rehabilitation, as well as provides referrals to other healthcare professionals for follow-up treatment
- Displays professionalism while completing multiple urgent tasks in a timely manner
- Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms
- Assessed and understood the needs of the staff by collaborating with the nursing educator and patient care coordinator.
- Expended clinical knowledge and expertise by pursuing continuing education.
Education
General Nursing And Midwifery - Nursing
S.S.G. Hospital
Vadodara, India03-2008
Skills
- Successful completion of Registered Nursing and current registration with CNO & CRNM
- Registered Nurse with a background in Long Term Care, medical, surgical, Rehabilitation
- Skilled at identifying significant changes in patient’s status and informing health care team
- Excellent personal motivation with a proven ability to build and work collaboratively in a strong team concept environment, and independently
- Well-developed prioritizing, organization, decision making, time management, and verbal/written communication skills
- Excellent critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze situations effectively and respond appropriately
- Strong computer skills in Microsoft Word, Point click and Momentum documentation
- Patient assessment
- Problem Solving
- Leadership
- Nursing care planning
- Documentation
- Assessment skill
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Medication Administration
- Documentation and charting
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- Clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Infection control measures
- Wound care
- Compassion and empathy
- Patient monitoring
- IV setup
- Intravenous therapy
- Care planning
- Patient management
- Physical assessments
- Patient care planning
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
- Nursing staff leadership
- Medication distribution
- Tracheostomy care
- Critical care
- Lab result interpretation
- EMR systems
- Complex Problem-solving
- Emergency response
- Maintaining privacy
- Staff supervision
- Emergency procedures
- Chest pain management
Accomplishments
- Patient Advocacy - Explained treatment procedures, medication risks, special diets and physician instructions to patients.
- Documentation - Ensured charting accuracy through precise documentation.
- Clinical Skills - Monitored patients' respiration activity, blood pressure and blood glucose levels in response to medical administration.
- Implementation - Assisted in implementation of new tracking system that resulted in improved patient care.
- Supervised team of 10 staff members.
- Patient Care - Delivered compassionate care that exceeded hospital requirements.Successfully provided quality care to 12 patients in stressful environment.
Languages
Hindi
Full Professional
English
Full Professional
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- College of Nurse of Ontario RN # 21446124
- College of Registered Nurse of Manitoba RN # 405446
- Diploma in Registered Nursing and Midwifery, S.S.G. Hospital, India
- Health care aide certificate from UCN, Thompson, Canada
- New York State Registered Nurse License # 744779, 01/21
- Minnesota Registered Nurse License # 7471346, 12/20
- CGFNS Visa Screen Certificate Feb 24, 2025 to Feb 24, 2030
- Emergency Nurses Association TNCC April 25, 2025 to April 30, 2029
- ACLS certificate 06/2025 to 06/2027
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Morris General Hospital (Southern Health)
11.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Altona Health Centre, Acute Care (Southern Health)
08.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Boundary Trail health Centre, Rehab/Surg (Southern Health)
05.2024 - 08.2024
Registered Nurse
Eastview Place PCH Altona MB (Southern Health)
01.2023 - 05.2024
Registered Nurse
Bethammi Nursing Home, Thunder Bay, ON
12.2021 - 01.2023
Health Care Aide
Thompson General Hospital (NRHA)
08.2015 - 11.2021
Staff Nurse
Government Of Gujarat ( CRN with General Duties )
01.2009 - 02.2015
Staff Nurse
Civil General hospital, Gandhinagar, India ( ER & OR )
07.2008 - 12.2008
Staff Nurse
Avani Hospital & Neonatal Center, India
03.2008 - 07.2008
General Nursing And Midwifery - Nursing
S.S.G. Hospital