August 2015-November 2016
Assistant in Nursing – The Sutherland Hospital
Responsibilities
• Assistance with patient’s activities of daily living (personal care assistance, assistance with mobilisation, eye care, mouth care, pressure area care)
• Wound care and assessment
• Patient assessment and observations
• Safety checks
• Communication with patients, families, health professionals and the community.
• Working in a multidisciplinary team
• Documentation about patient status and information collected through assessment skills.
• Hand hygiene and standard precautions
• Understand Work Health and Safety responsibilities
Skills obtained
• Comprehensive patient physical assessment skills.
• Ability to recognise a deteriorating patient and escalate appropriately.
• Excellent time management, task prioritisation and delegation skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with patients, families, health professionals and the community
• A comprehensive understanding and competence participating in care planning and discharge planning processes.
• Ability to work effectively within the multidisciplinary team to provide patient-centred care
• Aggression minimization and de-escalation of aggressive patients
• Professional development in-services and workshops.

March 2015-November 2016
Allied Medistaff Nursing Service
Assistant in Nursing
Responsibilities
• Personal care assistance – help to shower, bathe and shave patients.
• Communication and collaboration with patients, families and with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Patient assessment skills (observations, blood sugar levels, and urinalysis)
• Ability to problem solve and ask for assistance in unfamiliar wards and with unfamiliar tasks.
• Ability to work effectively in a team.

January 2015-July 2015
RSL LifeCare
Key Responsibilities
• Personal care assistance – help to shower, bathe and shave patients
• Communication with patients, families, health professionals and the community

October 2009-November 2014
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Skills obtained
• Effective communication skills with colleagues and customers
• Ability to work effectively in a team including skills of collaboration and delegation.

Education
2013-current
Bachelor of Health Sciences and Master of Nursing – The University of Sydney
• Completed with Distinction average