RAFATU KASIMU
Edmonton,Canada
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering over 19 years of patient-facing experience. Addresses patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds. Obstetrics Nurse with eight years of monitoring women and infants. Conducts post-childbirth coaching for new mothers on breastfeeding, infant care, sleep techniques and safe handling of infants. Monitored and cared for women during labor performing dilation checks, monitoring mother and infant heart rates and recognizing emergency situations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN
Good Samaritan Millwood
09.2021 - Current
- Prepares and administers prescribed medications to residents following 10 rights of medication administration to prevent and reduce medication errors
- Provides nursing care to residents in 60 bed, fast-paced home with electronic record system
- Accurately use electronic system record to chart treatment done on 30 residents and communicate same to RN increasing in residents and health care provider relationship
- Perform medication administration via oral, sublingual, intermuscular, intradermal, subcutaneous routes, and insertion of hypodermoclysis
- Monitor residents for reactions to medications and take appropriate actions to increase safety of residents
- Mentor, trained and guide new hire LPN and health care aid
- Changing wound dressing, inserting suprapubic catheter, indwelling, and care of insertion site
- Perform screening for residents during outbreak and collect swabs
- Administering lung volume recruitments and BiPAP machines
- Inserting suppository and conducting digital stimulation post suppository
- Incorporate prescribed peg tube feed and care of peg site
- Monitoring of resident’s blood glucose
- Assisting health care aids in transferring residents using lifts
- Changing of nephrostomy site dressing
- Irrigation of suprapubic catheter catheter
- Emptying of urine drainage bags
- Delegate task to health care aid and student nurses
- Assess residents’ vital signs and record in electronic medical records.
LPN
Peace Villa
08.2014 - 05.2021
- Competent in assessment, planning, implementation, and recognize deterioration in patient’s condition and evaluation of care
- Able to communicate sensitively and effectively with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams
- Able to show empathy compassion and dignity in caring for patients at end of life
- Teamwork in collaborating with other health care professionals including physician, social workers, chaplain, and hospice providers to develop comprehensive care plain that address patients physical, emotional, and spiritual needs
- Maintained safe environment to provide high standard of care and monitored patients treatment
- Provided emotional and psychological care to residents in culturally sensitive manner
- Documents incidents in real time and escalates any concerns to RN
- Communicating with residents, families, and other members of health team
- Reporting any change in patients’ condition to medical team members
- Assisting patients and residents with activities of daily living
- Analyze pain management and develop plans of action to improve pain management in end-stage of life to other interdisciplinary team members
- Collaborating with other health care team in providing care to client and families
- Develop and maintain friendly relationship with residents’ friends and family member
- Train new hires to deliver high-level of patient’s central care resulting in improvement in care
- Providing emotional and psychological care to resident in culturally sensitive manner
- Working in safe environment with resident and co-workers
- Changing of dressing, administering prescribed medication e.g
- Injection, tablet, patches and tablets
- Admitting new residents and patients into unit
- Getting verbal, telephone order from doctor and faxing order to pharmacy
- Documenting patient change in condition in patients’ chart and checking blood work results.
LPN
University Hospital Of Northern British Columbia
11.2013 - 04.2014
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.
- Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify medical needs and develop appropriate treatment plans.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop comprehensive care plans for patients.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Supported physicians during examinations and scans to assist with diagnostic procedures.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
LPN
Gateway Lodge
08.2013 - 04.2014
- Provided basic residents care and treatment, such as administering medications, urine tests, taking temperature and blood pressure, and dressing wounds
- Collaborated with other healthcare teams on evaluation of care plan outcomes, implementing or adjusting interventions accordingly
- Clearly and thoroughly explained treatment options, and procedures to patients and loved ones and checked to verify their understanding
- Assessed residents’ temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records
- Assisted residents complete day-to-day tasks, including bathing, dressing, and eating
- Documented resident’s vitals, behaviors, and conditions to communicate concerns to supervisors
- Protected resident’s and healthcare team members from infection by sterilizing equipment and reusable supplies.
LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE
Bradden Private Hospital
06.2013 - 07.2013
- Admission of clients into care facility
- Check vital signs and documentation
- Administration of prescribed medications.
RN/RM
Northern Regional Hospital
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Admission of clients into maternity unit
- Nursing care during antenatal, prenatal and postnatal care
- Neonatal care, resuscitation of newborn following delivery
- Pre and post nursing care of patients before and after caesarean section
- Administration of prescribed medication in accordance with hospital policies and protocols
- Breastfeeding education and helping new mothers in proper latching of babies to breast
- Collection of blood from vein and dropping it off in laboratory
- Hurricane readiness workshop and helping during hurricane
- Follow routine nursing standard of procedures and abide to hospital policies and protocols
- Examination and monitor pregnant women
- Examination and monitor newborns
- Provides information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners and relatives
- Monitor and administer medications, injections, and intravenous infusion during and after labor
- Provides immediate and routine neonates care
- Assist in resuscitation of neonates
- Help parents to cope with miscarriages, termination of pregnancy, stillbirth, and neonatal death
- Provides sexual reproductive health education to clients
- Partake in in-house training and other continuous medical educations
- Abides to policies and good practices of Baby Friendly Hospital program
- Reports to immediate supervisor of any matters arising with care of clients
- Available for other duties that is assigned
- Worked in rural communities giving health education on personal and environment hygiene
- Health education on HIV and other sexually transmitted infection and importance of early testing and use of condoms
- Home visit and teaching of need to boil and filter water before drinking
- Teaches on importance of balance diet and immunization on health of mother and children
- Visited school children, inspected teeth and nails and also gave health education
- Home visit to discharged mother to see if are still breastfeeding on demand and taken weight of babies to know if developing according to their ages.
RN/RM
Ebony Hospital Limited
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Follow hospital rules and regulations
- Admission of clients into hospital units
- Assist during surgical procedures like
- Assist in operating room, scrubbing and circulating during C-Section and other procedure.
- Care of neonate in care unit
- Nursing care during and after blood transfusion
- Give health education to pregnant and discharge mothers
- Collaborate with other health care team in proving and improving patients’ quality of life
- Administration of prescribed medication in accordance with hospital policies and protocols
- Check patients’ vital signs and documents in patients’ charts
- Administration of prescribed oxygen
- Change wound dressing
- Collection of samples and dropping them off to laboratory
- Wheel patients for x-rays and other diagnostic investigations
- Assessed patient before, during and after hemodialysis
- Connecting patient to dialysis machine.
Education
Bachelor of Social Work -
University of Northern British Columbia
Prince George, BC01.2021
Diploma in Canadian Nursing Review Advanced -
Omni College
Richmond, BC01.2013
Registered Midwife and Family Planning -
Edo state School of Midwifery Science
Benin city, Nigeria01.2005
Registered Nurse (Diploma) -
Edo State school of Nursing Science
Benin City, Nigeria01.2003
Skills
- Critical thinking and Problem solving
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Prioritize tasks
- Active listening
- Delegation
- Conflict resolution
- Sound decision especially in fast-paced environment
- Empathy and compassion
- Attention to detail documenting patients’ information
- Adaptability and flexible adaptable to charge in patients’ condition and treatment plans
- Time management in providing timely care to patients
- Planning and coordination
- Leadership
- Compassionate Care
- End of life care
- Documentation accuracy
- Clinical judgment
- Strong Clinical Judgment
Accomplishments
- Patient Advocacy - Explained treatment procedures, medication risks, special diets and physician instructions to patients.
- Implementation - Assisted in implementation of new tracking system that resulted in improved patient care.
- Surgical Preparation - Assisted in patient surgery preparation by administering proper medication, monitoring patients' conditions and charting abnormalities.
- Achieved results by completing task with accuracy and efficiency.
Certification
- Current active license with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta
- Current active license with the College of Licensed Practical Nurse of Alberta
- Alberta College of Social Workers, Provisional license # 16419
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training
- Certificate in medication manage- legislative and regulatory Authority by CRNA
- Certificate of participation in managing difficult communication situation
- Certificate of participation in diplomacy in communication for effective healthcare delivery managing difficult communication situation
- Certificate of participation in understanding verbal and non- verbal communication in nursing.
- Certificate of participation in supporting patients in shared decision making in clinical practice
- Certificate of participation in pain management difficult communication situation Certificate in Gentle Persuasive Approaches to Dementia care
- Certificate in positive Approach in Dementia care presented by Teepa Snow
- Certificate in Protecting Patients from Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
- Certificate in Palliative Care- Communication and Support
- Certificate in End PJ Paralysis
- Certificate in Palliative Care- Dealing with Dyspnea
- Nursing Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria
- Home and Community Care Regional Conference
- Delivering Quality Serving Communities; Nurse Leading in Care Innovation Belize
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS). Heart and stroke foundation
- Certificate in positive Approach in Dementia care presented by Teeepa Snow
Profession Summary
A confident, culturally competent, and proactive professional registered nurse with 20 years of dedicated patient experience both in Canada, Belize Central America, and Nigeria. On top of my nursing experience, I also have a Bachelor of Social Work, presently registered with the Alberta College of Social Work. Committed to providing emotional and psychological support care to patients and families in a culturally sensitive manner. Working in collaboration with other team members in accordance with College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA)
References
Available upon request
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
LPN
Good Samaritan Millwood
09.2021 - Current
LPN
Peace Villa
08.2014 - 05.2021
LPN
University Hospital Of Northern British Columbia
11.2013 - 04.2014
LPN
Gateway Lodge
08.2013 - 04.2014
LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE
Bradden Private Hospital
06.2013 - 07.2013
RN/RM
Ebony Hospital Limited
10.2009 - 10.2011
RN/RM
Northern Regional Hospital
10.2009 - 10.2011
Bachelor of Social Work -
University of Northern British Columbia
Diploma in Canadian Nursing Review Advanced -
Omni College
Registered Midwife and Family Planning -
Edo state School of Midwifery Science
Registered Nurse (Diploma) -
Edo State school of Nursing Science
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