Gloria Lolita Dsouza
Al Ain,UAE
Summary
Patient-oriented Nurse with 12 years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision and department operations. Skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments. Offering expertise with medical surgical unit and emergency unit specialty.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Registered Nurse
Kuntoji Multispecialty Hospital
Bagalkote, India
10.2021 - 02.2023
- Tracked near-miss and error report information and initiated strategies to improve patient safety practices.
- Provided and facilitated activities in medical emergencies or crisis situations.
- Facilitated smooth patient discharge, managing transition to hospital wards or referred hospitals.
- Liaised with doctors, dieticians and occupational therapists to achieve stellar maximum care plan.
- Created staff rotas to guarantee optimal coverage on all shifts.
- Oversaw admission, transfer and discharge of patients.
- Participated in clinical risk and quality improvement initiatives activities.
- Increased staff satisfaction by introducing social activity programs to maintain morale and boost engagement.
- Consistently monitored patient health and wellbeing to recognise deterioration and initiate appropriate action.
- Concurred with inter-professional teams to execute recommended quality improvement plans and interventions.
- Designed self-management plans to empower patients, family members and caregivers to participate in health management.
Senior Registered Nurse
Justice K.S Hegde Charitable Hospital
Mangalore, India
06.2017 - 09.2019
- Perform nursing assessment -plan, implement and evaluate nursing care rendered.
- Observe and monitor patient and notify physician if any undue development.
- Nursing documentation in a brief and complete manner
- Carry out doctors' orders accurately, administer drugs.
- Assist physician for different procedures.
- Maintain good nurse patient relationship.
- Monitoring ECG
- I.V canulation
- Male and female foleys catheterization
- Medication administration
- Maintaining crash cart
- Assisting in E.T intubation
- Blood transfusion
- Insertion of Nasogastric Tube
- Health talk to a patients
- Collecting blood samples
- Nasogastric and jejunostomy feeding.
- Process recording
- Maintain records and reports.
- Facilitated smooth patient discharge, managing transition to hospital wards or referred hospitals.
Senior Clinical Instructor
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
Mangalore, India
08.2012 - 06.2017
- Demonstrating a procedure to the students
- Provided clinical instruction to 100 students of GNM and BSc nursing students in clinical settings on topics such as clinical demonstrations, bed side teaching.
- Preparing theory and practical I.A plan
- Subject coordinator of Medical Surgical nursing I &II
- Preparing clinical rotation plan for the academic year
- Scheduling the time table for the students
- Assigning the patients to the students for their requirement
- Leading the students in clinical set up
- Discipline committee member
- Maintaining the good communication between the staff and management
- Teacher guardian for 15 Nursing students
- Planning teaching, including lectures, Seminars and learning materials
- Provided immediate and constructive feedback to students individually and as group.
- Delivered individualised instruction on observation, assessment, decision-making and patient health teaching.
- Supervised work undertaken on key projects related to students' advanced degrees.
- Contributed to department and faculty meetings to continuously assess and improve internal practices.
Registered Nurse & Clinical Instructor
School of Nursing of Nursing Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
Mangalore, India
04.2008 - 10.2010
- Perform nursing assessment -plan, implement and evaluate nursing care rendered
- Observe and monitor patient and notify physician if any undue development
- Meet patients Physical, Mental, Spiritual needs
- Maintain personal hygiene in all patients
- Administer O2 to the patient according to the physician order
- Performing minor wound dressing and suture removal
- Maintaining cleanliness of the ward
- Nursing documentation
- Assisting in various procedures like Intubation and extubating, major dressing, lumbar puncture
- Performance of procedure: such as I.V canulation, Ryle's tube and urinary catheter insertion and chest physiotherapy
Education
Masters - Nursing
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, NITTE University
09.2019 - 09.2021
Basic Bachelor of science - Nursing
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, NITTE University
India 08.2010 - 08.2012
Diploma - General Nursing and Midwifery
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
India 08.2004 - 08.2007
Skills
- RESEARCH WORK: Effectiveness of Tripod Position on Dyspnea and Comfort Among COPD Patients”
Licenses
- DHA
- DOH
CERTIFICATIONS
- Basic life support Certified under American Heart Association.
- The continuing nursing education program on Basics of Research held at K.S Hegde charitable hospital, INDIA
- Attended workshop on Assessment, resuscitation and stabilization of children at Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
- Attended a workshop on anybody can do research (research methodology and SPSS workshop)
- Attended workshop on Enhancing research competence held at Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, INDIA
- Attended international Nursing Symposium the Future of nursing: Leasing Change, Advancing Health
- Attended Regional seminar on creating and sustaining a positive work environment.
- Attended Regional workshop on ECG interpretation -Beyond the Basics.
- Attended Worlds diabetic Day workshop on14th November 2019 at Justice K.S.Hegde Hospital, Mangalore, INDIA
- The continuing nursing education on Nursing Skill Competencies held at K.S Hegde charitable hospital, INDIA
- Attended state level conference on Clinical Judgement Skills -A Way to Professionalism by a unit of Laxmi Memorial College of Nursing Mangalore, INDIA
- Attended state level conference on Health Care reforms in nursing practice at Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, Mangalore, INDIA
- Attended ENLS Training program by jeeva Raksha Team, at Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, INDIA
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Malayalam
Fluent
Kannada
Fluent
Timeline
Senior Registered Nurse
Kuntoji Multispecialty Hospital
10.2021 - 02.2023
Masters - Nursing
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, NITTE University
09.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Registered Nurse
Justice K.S Hegde Charitable Hospital
06.2017 - 09.2019
Senior Clinical Instructor
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
08.2012 - 06.2017
Basic Bachelor of science - Nursing
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, NITTE University
08.2010 - 08.2012
Registered Nurse & Clinical Instructor
School of Nursing of Nursing Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
04.2008 - 10.2010
Diploma - General Nursing and Midwifery
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences
08.2004 - 08.2007
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