Hitika

• Motivated and high performing Registered Nurse with more than 8 years of experience in variety of medical settings, including private family practices, emergency units, intensive care units, cardiology unit, preoperative and postoperative units, pediatric operating room, long term care and rehabilitation center.
• Skilled in providing individualized, quality care to diverse population with high level of expertise related to preoperative, intraoperative and immediate postoperative patients care, IV medications and prophylactic intervention and monitoring immediate postoperative complicated.
• Flexible while effectively prioritizing complex medical issues. I am resourceful and responsive to changes whilst achieving collective objectives in the caring achieving collective objectives in caring and developments of customers possessing a developed patient centered philosophy of care through innovative caring skills together with practical clinical skills.
• I have a proven record of managing caseloads, promoting services, increasing personal and professional standards while working in India.
• Now I am looking forward to developing my career as Registered Nurse in Canada which would help me strengthen my present skills and develop new skills which I believe would be helpful in providing holistic care.

• Monitoring Devices: Pulse oximeter, BP apparatus, thermometer, stethoscope
• Respiratory Support: Oxygen cylinder, CO2 cylinder for laparoscopy, airway, nebulizer, resuscitation equipment
• Infusion and Medication Delivery: Syringe pump, infusion pump
• Diagnostic Tools: Glucometer, ECG
• Suction and Catheterization: Suction unit and catheter, indwelling catheter, Ryle's tube, infant feeding tubes, urinary dilators, silicone dilators, Hegar dilator, Bougies for esophageal dilatation, nasal speculum
• Emergency and Critical Care: Defibrillator, IV cannulas, VP shunts, peritoneal dialysis catheter
• Surgical Instruments: Intercostal tubes, intra-abdominal tubes, DJ stents, umbilical catheter, Fogarty catheter, Dormia basket, colposcope, retractors (self-retaining, Deaver, Doyen, liver, Finochietto, Langenbeck, Morris, mastoid)
• Clamps and Forceps: Intestinal clamps, lung holding forceps, pyloromyotomy forceps, vascular clamps (Satinsky), bulldog clamps, various dissection forceps, right-angle forceps, tissue cutting scissors, suture cutting scissors, fine urethroplasty scissors (straight and curved)
• Specialized Equipment: Bronchoscopy equipment (fiber optic camera, light cable, sheath, foreign body removal forceps, prism), cystoscopy equipment, laparoscopy instruments (Maryland dissector, grasper, scissor, Allis forceps, Babcock, linear stapler, circular stapler, echelon 35 and 60)
• Suture Material

Certificates & Awards

• Emergency First aid and CPR/AED level C certificate.
• Received an award from SBS NGO for providing outstanding selfless services to society including distribution of masks and food items and other commodities and participation in Covid-19 vaccine trial during initial phase of Covid-19 pandemic.
• Received many appreciation certificates for Donating blood many times. Actively participated during Organ donation week and have made an awareness movie with many of the colleagues, organized many poster making competitions and shared and created awareness through social media platforms for which received an award and certificate from Regional organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) PGIMER, Chandigarh.
• Received appreciation certificate for outstanding work during Covid 19 pandemic from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India.
• Received a certificate of appreciation from the department of transfusion medicine for motivating voluntary Blood Donors during Covid- 19 pandemic.

Conferences, Seminars & Workshops

• Participated in 4th Annual conference (APSOCON 2022) Association of Pediatrics Surgical Oncology (APSO) section of Indian Association of Pediatrics surgeons (IAPS) organized by Department of Pediatrics Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh and voluntarily participated in organizing committee.
• Attended and participated in BIENNIAL (74th) CONFERENCE (year 2014) of Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) With the theme Developing Effective Leaders in Nursing: Today and Tomorrow, for Quality Patient Care.
• Participated in Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) Treatment Facility Design under Health Emergencies Programs organized by WHO.
• Completed an educational activity organized by TNAI on Essential Up skilling For Nurses on Covid -19 Pandemic.
• Successfully completed Nationwide Capacity Building of Nursing Professionals for Comprehensive Management of Covid-19 Children Organized by Directorate General of Health services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
• Participated and successfully completed educational activity by Harvard Medical school on Mechanical ventilation for Covid-19 patients.
• Participated in Student Nurses Association Biennial conference in the year 2015 with a theme “Clean and Healthy India: Nurses’ Concern.
• Completed educational activity on Child Abuse and Maltreatment/ Neglect: Identification and Reporting New York State.
• Completed educational activity Infection Control: New York board State.

• Served as a President of PGI Nurses welfare Association for 2 years (April 2020 to 2022) and have organized various blood donation camps.
• Fostering Excellence and Patient Safety in Acute and Critical Care: Nurses to Lead.
• Motivated and high performing Registered Nurse with more than 8 years of experience in variety of medical settings.

• RN INDIA, Registration no. #10044
• RN ONTARIO, Registration no. #23693111
• RN NEW YORK STATE BOARD, Registration no. #879019-01
• RN NOVA SCOTIA, Registration no. #112142

• Patient Admission and Preparation:

     Receiving patients from general wards, ICU, and emergency for elective and emergency surgical procedures.

     Conducting handovers and liaising with the care team.

• Patient Care and Safety Protocols:

     Ensuring proper hand hygiene before and after patient contact and procedures.

     Monitoring vital signs and hemodynamic status.

     Conducting general physical examinations and assessments.

     Pre-operative Preparation:

     Confirming patient NPO (nothing by mouth) status before surgery.

     Verifying patient identification, procedure, and consent.

     Checking and preparing necessary blood products and surgical items.

• Surgical Setup and Support:

     Setting up trolleys and arranging equipment for open and laparoscopic surgeries.

     Completing surgical safety checklists per WHO standards.

     Assisting actively in open surgeries, laparoscopic surgeries, bronchoscopies, and cystoscopies.

     Circulating and providing surgical items to the surgical team during operations.

     Maintaining records and performing surgical counts of items used.

• Post-operative Care:

     Receiving patients in the post-recovery unit and providing immediate post-operative care.

     Ensuring patient positioning, pain assessment, and respiratory status monitoring.

     Administering maintenance fluids, blood products, and IV medications as required.

     Monitoring for post-operative complications and initiating necessary interventions.

     Performing wound care, dressing changes, urinary catheter management, and specimen collection.

     Documenting patient reports, maintaining care plans, and input-output charts.

• Emergency Response and Sterilization:

     Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as needed.

     Caring for critically ill patients’ post-surgery.

     Ensuring sterilization and maintenance of surgical items and equipment.

     Handling autoclaving, disinfection, and proper disposal of biomedical waste.

• Team Collaboration and Patient Advocacy:

     Transferring patients safely and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams for comprehensive care.

• Sajan Bajaj

      Registered Nurse,

      3 East Unit,

      Dartmouth General Hospital, Dartmouth, NS

      bajaj.sajan@gmail.com 

• Manvir Kaur,

     Ex Nursing officer, 

     Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, 

     PGIMER, Chandigarh, IN

     +1 782-641-4488