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PATIENCE BOAHEMAA

Highway 406 N, Thorold,ON, Canada

Summary

Highly dedicated and conscientious Staff Nurse (Registered Community Nurse) with an outstanding patient and client service record. Adept multitask, able to handle a higher volume of simultaneous healthcare tasks and concerns with professionalism and accuracy. ESSENTIAL SKILLS High verbal and written communication abilities. Extensive healthcare facility work experience. Superior organizational and prioritization skills. Exceptional familiarity with health care management and functioning. Strong grasp of all licensed home agency regulations and rules. Excellent knowledge medical terminologies and therapeutic programs. Outstanding patient transfer ability in routine or emergency circumstances. Assists client(s) with personal care, including: Personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, grooming, positioning, feeding, skin car, and elimination needs. Provides home-making duties such as: making beds, changing linens, tidying client’s room, preparing meals, and other household chores. Support clients with ambulation with wheelchairs, canes and walkers. Ensures that all clients take their prescribed medication(s). Arranges all IV line and drains, monitors vital signs, administers CPR. Checks RBS by using glucometer, administering medicines, fluid an TPN through infusion and syringe pump, Assists in intubation and extubation, IV therapy, ICD, NG TUBE, insertion of urinary catheter and care, tracheostomy & Nebulization. Skilled nursing professional with more than 2 years of experience and passion for providing highest quality of behavioral and medical care. Compassionate and empathetic advocate for patients and families. Skillfully assesses health status, develops diagnoses and manages care for patients with acute and chronic concerns. Experienced in structured and unstructured environments, smoothly coordinating multiple activities and competing priorities.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Nurse(RCN)

Taifa Polyclinic
09.2020 - Current
  • Providing high quality healthcare
  • Undertaking family planning and outreach services
  • Undertaking child welfare clinic, home and school healthcare services
  • Trace defaulters in community
  • Play active role in promotion of immunization to possible protection against diseases
  • Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians
  • Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
  • Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic, and cognitive status of patients

Rotation Nurse

Volta River Authority Hospital-Akosombo
05.2018 - 04.2019
  • Assessing patient and family needs on admission
  • Undertaking family planning and outreach services
  • Conducting research to improve patient outcomes and healthcare processes

Student Nurse

Sunyani Regional Hospital
01.2016 - 02.2016
  • Bathing patient and changing beds
  • Dressing and feeding patients
  • Admitting and orientating new patient to assigned units
  • Wound dressing and serving of medications
  • Providing individual patient education, in accordance with accepted nursing practice and medical plan of care.
  • Performed regular rounds to check on well-being of patients.
  • Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
  • Monitored patient vital signs, reporting any changes to experienced nursing staff.

Healthcare Assistant(Hospice and Palliative Care)

Ripples Health care
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • Assisted in general healthcare delivery
  • Provided health assistance to chronic ill in their homes
  • Performed any ad hoc duties
  • Recognized and understood specific stages of dying process, providing comfort-based care during vulnerable times.
  • Developed and implemented individualized care plan for each hospice patient while following physician instructions.
  • Offered listening ear to both patients and loved ones to meet emotional and mental, as well as physical needs

Education

PROJECTS - Registered Community Nursing

College of Community Health Nursing-Winneba
Ghana Central Region
11.2017

Associate of Applied Science - Diploma In Community Health Nursing

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
Ghana-Kumasi (Ashanti Region)
11.2017

WASSCE Certificate (Home Economics -

Wenchi Methodist Senior High School
Ghana
06.2008

Skills

  • Medical Histories and Vital Statistics
  • Direct Patient Care
  • EMR Systems
  • Manage Cases
  • Immunizations and Vaccinations
  • Hospice and Palliative Care

Affiliations

Member of the Ghana Registered Nursing and Midwives Association – June, 2020

Additional Information

  • HONORS AND AWARDS , Awarded a certificate of completion of Covid-19 vaccination from African German Health Association

Timeline

Staff Nurse(RCN)

Taifa Polyclinic
09.2020 - Current

Rotation Nurse

Volta River Authority Hospital-Akosombo
05.2018 - 04.2019

Student Nurse

Sunyani Regional Hospital
01.2016 - 02.2016

Healthcare Assistant(Hospice and Palliative Care)

Ripples Health care
01.2011 - 01.2014

PROJECTS - Registered Community Nursing

College of Community Health Nursing-Winneba

Associate of Applied Science - Diploma In Community Health Nursing

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology

WASSCE Certificate (Home Economics -

Wenchi Methodist Senior High School
PATIENCE BOAHEMAA