Archana Syamkumar

• Clinical Leadership: Lead the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care for marginalized populations, ensuring tailored care pathways and evidence-based practices.
• Service Development: Develop and manage inclusion health services, collaborate with stakeholders, and monitor performance against KPIs.
• Advocacy: Champion the health needs of vulnerable groups, deliver health promotion initiatives, and enhance access to services.
• Team Management: Supervise and support healthcare teams, ensuring training and professional development.
• Policy and Compliance: Ensure services adhere to regulations, safeguarding, and policies addressing health inequalities.
• Research and Innovation: Lead research initiatives, adopt innovative practices, and stay updated on trends in inclusion health.
• Collaboration: Build relationships with community organizations, commissioners, and local authorities to enhance service delivery.
• Operational Oversight: Manage resources, handle crises, and ensure efficient, equitable service provision.

• Conducting comprehensive assessments and managing complex health conditions.
• Developing personalized care plans and coordinating multidisciplinary care.
• Implementing prevention strategies, managing acute and chronic conditions, and offering palliative support.
• Educating patients, families, and staff about frailty and self-management.
• Leading quality improvement initiatives and contributing to research in frailty care.
• Performing basic clinical assessments and observations for patients on IV antibiotic therapy.
• Preparing IV antibiotics, setting up infusions, and assisting with cannulation and phlebotomy.
• Maintaining aseptic techniques and providing cannula care and dressing changes in line with infection control protocols.
• Referring to the community Rapids team for continuous managing and monitoring patients on warfarin therapy, including dose adjustments and education on anticoagulation management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with physicians to assess and treat patients, managing rapidly changing clinical conditions with precision and expertise.
• Provided mentorship and orientation to new hires and student nurses, ensuring adherence to hospital policies and best practices in emergency care.
• Responded promptly to critical safety and security incidents, employing crisis prevention and de-escalation techniques effectively.
• Delivered therapeutic communication, conflict resolution, and crisis intervention to support patient mental and emotional well-being.
• Conducted ongoing monitoring of patient conditions and behaviours, providing timely updates to supervisors.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular routes while closely monitoring patient responses.
• Actively participated in trauma interventions for emergencies such as strokes, cardiac arrests, falls, and fractures.
• Delivered care to diverse patient groups, including mental health, paediatrics, and obstetrics/gynaecology populations.
• Responded to critically ill patients with skilled and composed emergency care, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.
• Evaluated patient histories, symptoms, and complaints to prioritize care and manage acute conditions effectively.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to plan and enhance patient treatment strategies.

• Preoperative Assessment: Review medical history, conduct exams, complete required tests, educate patients, and coordinate care plans.
• Risk Evaluation: Identify complications, provide pre-surgery instructions, and administer medications.
• Postoperative Care: Monitor recovery, manage pain, care for wounds, and educate on recovery plans.
• IV Therapy: Perform assessments, prepare antibiotics, set up infusions, and assist with cannulation and phlebotomy.
• Aseptic Techniques: Maintain infection control, provide cannula care, and perform dressing changes.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Work with multidisciplinary teams, maintain patient records, and ensure safety protocols.
• Patient Advocacy: Support patients emotionally and address concerns for positive care experience.

Patient Care: Surgical Support: Compliance and Documentation: Teamwork and Development:

• Deliver high-standard patient care and foster positive nurse-patient relationships.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient conditions.
• Assisted physicians with procedures like chest tube insertion, central line placement, and wound care.
• Monitor CVP, administer TPN, blood products, and maintain input/output records.
• Perform nursing procedures (e.g., ECG, catheterization, tracheostomy care, suctioning).
• Conduct pre-operative assessments, monitor post-surgery recovery, and manage surgical wounds.
• Implement post-surgical care plans and maintain patient documentation.
• Maintain accurate patient records, ensuring privacy and confidentiality.
• Adhere to infection control protocols and nursing policies.
• Manage ward inventories, emergency supplies, and equipment.
• Train and mentor new staff; stay updated on advancements in CCU care.

• Assist in surgeries as both a scrub and circulatory nurse.
• Support endotracheal intubation and maintain a patent airway.
• Manage hypotension, hypertension, and fluid balance during procedures.
• Ensure a sterile field is maintained throughout surgeries.
• Set up and prepare the operating room for various procedures.
• Handle the packing, sterilization, and fumigation of instruments and operating theatre.
• Perform IV cannulation, CPR, and bag-mask ventilation.
• Implement preventive infection control measures.
• Anticipate emergencies and maintain readiness with emergency drugs and equipment.

Key Surgical Cases Assisted:

• Renal: Nephrectomy, Kidney Transplant (Donor and Recipient), Radical Cystectomy.
• Cardio-Thoracic: Thoracotomy, Pneumonectomy, Lobectomy, Esophagectomy, Segmentectomy, Thoraco-laparotomy, Thoracoscopic procedures.
• Plastic Surgery: Abdominoplasty, Blepharoplasty, Skin Grafting, Breast Mammoplasty, Tummy Tuck, Rhinoplasty, Craniofacial Surgeries, Free Flaps, Thigh Lift, Facelift, Brachioplasty, Liposuction, Lipo injection, and Microvascular Surgeries.
• General Surgery: Mastectomy, Appendectomy, Herniorrhaphy, Cystectomy, Hydrocelectomy, Cystoscopy, Sigmoidoscopy, Circumcision, Chest Tube Insertion, Laparotomy, Orchidopexy, Urethral Dilation, Haemorrhoidectomy, Colostomy, Tracheostomy, Laparoscopic Procedures (including Sleeve Gastrectomy, Gastric Banding).
• Ophthalmic Surgeries: Phacoemulsification, SICS, Pterygium Repair, and more.
• Gynaecological Surgeries: Hysteroscopy, Total Abdominal Hysterectomy (TAH), Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy (LAVH), Lower Segment Caesarean Section (LSCS), Cervical Smears, Cervical Procedures (e.g., LEEP, Colposcopy, Conization, Cervical Biopsy).

• General Surgery: Assisted in procedures like appendectomy and hernia repair, etc.
• Gynaecology/Obstetrics: Supported in procedures like Cervical smears, Foleys Catherization, Caesarean sections and hysterectomies.
• ENT: Handled instruments for ear, nose, and throat surgeries.
• Ophthalmic: Prepare instruments for delicate eye surgeries like cataract surgery.