Owen Gray

Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care strategies for adult mental health patients.

Assessed and monitored adult and geriatric patients experiencing acute mental health crises and complex psychiatric conditions, ensuring optimal care in an inpatient facility.

• Complete comprehensive mental and physical health assessments and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary team.

• Conduct ongoing suicide, self-harm, and violence risk assessments to support patient safety.

• Utilize therapeutic communication, crisis intervention, de-escalation techniques, and trauma-informed approaches.

• Administer and monitor psychotropic and medical medications while assessing therapeutic effectiveness and adverse effects.

• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning, discharge planning, and coordination of community supports.

• Support patients experiencing psychosis, mood disorders, substance use disorders, personality disorders, and concurrent medical conditions.

• Provide mentorship and orientation support to nursing students, new graduates, and newly hired staff.

Registered Practical Nurse – Medicine Department | London Health Sciences Centre | January 2023 – October 2023

• Provided care to patients admitted to Subacute Medicine, Acute Care of the Elderly, and Palliative Care units.

• Performed assessments, medication administration, treatments, patient education, and discharge planning.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to manage patients with complex medical conditions in a fast-paced acute care environment.

Orderly | London Health Sciences Centre | July 2015 – January 2023

• Supported patients with mental health needs through personal care and continuous observation.

• Assisted with safe patient transfers while maintaining dignity and patient-centred care.

• Adapted effectively to changing patient needs within dynamic healthcare environments.

• -Provided care to patients admitted to Subacute Medicine, Acute Care of the Elderly, and Palliative Care units.
• -Responsibilities included caring for patients with a variety of complex medical conditions in a fast-paced acute care environment.
• -Performed assessments, medication administration, treatments, patient education, and discharge planning in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

• -Supported patients with mental health needs, providing personal care and continuous observation.
• -Assisted with patient transfers while maintaining safety and dignity.
• -Adapted quickly to changing patient needs in a dynamic healthcare setting.