Sarah Nabukenya

• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
• Participated in team projects, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.

• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Documented all elements of care and updated patient charts and confidential files to reflect changes in care plans, interventions applied, and observations.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop impactful treatment plans.
• Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
• Supervised 25 staff including PSW and registered staff to ensure resident needs are met in a safe and timely manner.
• Over all person in charge of the entire home during after hours and on weekends.
• Responded to all emergencies in the nursing home including sending residents to hospital.
• Resolved staff conflicts in a none partial manner..
• Dealt with family concerns, including reporting to ministry of long term any concerns that required to be escalated beyond the manager.

• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
• Assessed patient conditions by taking vital signs and evaluating symptoms to determine appropriate treatment.
• Documented patient interactions and interventions in EPIC EMR.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop impactful treatment plans.
• Developed relationships with patients and families to understand medical history and care needs.

Assessed patients' physical and mental status by analyzing complaints and symptoms

• Performed frequent ongoing assessments of patients' status to address changes
• Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms
• Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations
• Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms
• Conducted ongoing monitoring and evaluations of behaviors and conditions, and updated clinical supervisors with current information
• Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies
• Created and implemented group therapies and programs to help patients improve or regain coping abilities

• Perform patients’ comprehensive assessment upon admission into the unit and document information appropriately using EPIC.
• Perform ongoing risk assessment during each start of shift and communicate accordingly to rest of care team
• Educate patients who are under involuntary detention about their form status regarding Mental Health Act
• Intervene in timely manner during crisis to get situation under control
• Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary team of professionals including medical, psychiatric and social work
• Prepare and administer medications as well as follow up and document therapeutic effect
• Educate patients and families about follow-up discharge planning with respect to follow up appointments and new discharge medication orders
• Administered prescribed medications; orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly and intravenously
• Performed blood glucose checks and vital signs assessment as required
• Provided pain management through pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions