Mary Polito Kalinga

• Train and supervise nurse students during their field visit or rotations, all clinical activities including provision of quality nursing care services and feedback to students for improvements.
• Train new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Promote patient and family comfort during challenging recoveries to enhance healing and eliminate non-compliance problems.
• Deliver high level of quality care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on acuity and appropriate department admission.
• Provide skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Manage patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
• Observe and document patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels, and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
• Educate family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring and evaluations of behaviors and conditions, and updated clinical supervisors with current information.
• Led teams in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices.
• Sustain quality standards by performing routine medication audits and upholding internal best practices.
• Explain course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
• Conduct thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Administer medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
• Record details regarding therapies to keep patient charts updated.
• Document treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
• Educate patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Assist in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members, contributing to a positive work environment and high-quality patient care.
• Participate in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices in nursing care and emerging trends in healthcare delivery.
• Administer medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary team meetings by presenting relevant clinical data about patients'' progress toward reaching established goals of care.
• Update patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Prevent the spread of infections by consistently adhering to strict infection control protocols and educating patients on proper hygiene practices.
• Provide direct patient care, stabilize patients, and determine next course of action.
• Work flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Mentored junior staff members, helping them develop their skills and advance in their careers.
• Manage care from admission to discharge.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Provide nursing care services to in-patients and out-patients, including;

• assessment and history taking,
• nursing plan,
• wound dressing,
• vital sign checking,
• administer medication to patients,
• feeding seriously ill patients,
• turning positions and patient hygiene to bed-ridden patients
• cannulation, catheterization and it's daily assessment
• NGT insertion and it's daily assessment
• Pre and Post operation care
• Last office
• Patient education
• Blood transfusion
• participate in ward rounds.