Maureen Sandra Douglas

Qualified UK registered mental health nurse, reliable and compassionate with a holistic, patient centred approach to care, front-line healthcare worker with over 20years experience working in day centers, acute mental health hospitals and community nursing. Experience working with severe and enduring mental ill health and various physical health conditions with complex needs in the community, inpatient and crisis situations in order to maintain the health and safety of people in my care while adhering to all working policies and procedures. Ability to demonstrate effective interpersonal and multidisciplinary communication with de-escalation techniques using critical thinking and the ability to deal with high risk cases utilising efficient time management skills. Qualified mentor, coordinating and working with a diverse professional, para-professional and student team to carry out appropriate and safe care interventions with caseloads assigned to the wider team and provide cover for continuity of care in the absence of responsible lead clinicians. Maintained live registration Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) UK Ability to recognise and pursue professional self-development Completed First Aid/BLS, Completed Criminal Record, Vulnerable Adult and Child Abuse check, Completed Internationally educated Nurse Bridging Program and registered with the College of Registration Psychiatric Nursing Manitoba (CRNPM)

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• Promote engagement with service users and family/carers with persistence, creativity and innovation focusing on service users, strengths and interests and the benefits that contact with services.
• Participate in team response to changes in patient need, including rapid response to requirements for intensive support in the community.
• Meet with patients to assess their progress, give support and discuss any difficulties or problems.
• Participate in relapse prevention work, with service user’s carers; this includes crisis intervention and intensive support for service users when hospitalisation is thought to be avoidable and less restrictive.
• Review patient background information, interview patients to obtain case history and prepare intake reports.
• Assess patients' relevant skill strengths and needs.
• Assist patients to sort out options and develop plans of action while providing necessary support and assistance.
• Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs by looking at behavioural changes and responses to interventions.
• Aid patients with the monitoring of medication, which includes delivery of medication with safe storage and administration.
• Facilitate Depot clinics monitoring side effects and compliance.
• Participate in the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapies and techniques considered to be of likely benefit to service users.
• Participate in aiding service users to deal with issues regarding substance misuse.
• Promote patients' physical health.
• Promote patients with vocational, educational and recreational aspirations.
• Work in an integrated multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and healthcare support workers operational staff to provide organizational holistic patient care.
• Liaise with outside agencies approaching release in order to affect continuity of care when a patient is released.
• Document on healthcare computer system each and every patient contact in order to note any change in symptoms or behavior using effective writing skills to report outcomes to management and doctor in charge of care.
• Support newly recruited staff and students by providing mentorship and spending time to demonstrate healthcare protocols pertaining.
• Manage aggressive patient behaviors by addressing patients calmly and using de-escalation techniques to calm patients.