Catherine Ichekwai
London,United Kingdom
Summary
Compassionate Enhanced Response Practitioner offering 5 years as an RMN and a total of 12 years of experience in health care, providing patient care and advocacy within the community, different acute and urgent care units. Develop a positive team atmosphere through hard work, calmness, tolerance, and consistency. Highly skilled in charting, managing patient intake, discharges and monitoring care plans. Well-versed in promoting policies and protocols to achieve core measures. Demonstrated success in cultivating strong patient rapport to drive outcome goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Enhanced Response Nurse - Band 7
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
London, City of London
01.2024 - Current
- Established positive rapport with patients and families through active listening and compassionate and holistic care.
- Facilitate immediate triage, providing timely same day or next day rapid f2f assessment/treatment/support in the community showing signs of relapse or alternative urgent direct referral to Crisis Team, Home Treatment Team, Liaison Psychiatry, Emergency Services if required.
- Liaise and work collaboratively with the Multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to provide a positive patient experience, maintain safety, and support risks within the community.
- Provide treatment to patients at home or through a walk-in clinic, offering support, signposting, interventions, and advice to families and carers on keeping patients safe in the community by de-escalating a growing crisis.
Charge Nurse Band 6
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
London, City of London
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Provide high holistic quality of care to patient service and build therapeutic relationship with them and loved ones.
- Make autonomous clinical decision-making, biopsychosocial assessment of patient's mental health and physical health needs, risk management, crisis management, development of managerial skills as well as joint working with multiple agencies/services.
- Delegate tasks fairly among staff, supervise and ensure safety at all times.
- Mentor, counsel, coach and generally support those who are not confident in clinical environment, building morale and self-esteem and generally encouraging others to give their best performance.
- Maintain patient medical record confidentiality compliance. Oversee patient care, unit operations and nursing protocols.
- Precept new staff nurses to provide education on hospital policies and procedures, patient care skills, medical procedures and techniques and patient assessments and interventions.
- Coordinate and perform patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
- Leveraged nursing processes to identify patient needs.
- Built and maintained therapeutic with patients and loved ones.
Staff Nurse Band 5
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom
09.2019 - 01.2022
- Implemented and evaluated care plan efficiencies, identifying and addressing concerns to improve treatment outcomes.
- Monitored patient wellbeing, accurately recognising deterioration and initiating immediate emergency care.
- Documented incidents on patient management systems in real-time to maximise efficiencies.
- Maintained privacy, dignity and safety of all patients, consistently adhering to health and safety policies.
- Coordinated and allocate tasks within nursing team.
- Prioritised health problems to assist patients in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Built therapeutic relationships with service user by listening, showing compassion, and communicating effectively.
- Assessed risks of service users; Monitor progress; updated and documented service user's records.
- Administered medication to service user.
- Worked collaboratively with Multidisciplinary team on patient care and pathway to recovery.
Education
Master of Science - Advance Clinical Practice
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames 09.2024 -
Bachelor of Science - Mental Health Nursing
University of West London
London08.2019
NVQ Level 3 - Health and Social Care
Council for Awards in care, Health and Education
London02.2012
Skills
- Patient care management
- Good communication and listening skills
- Adaptive to work in any environment
- Coordinate and delegate tasks to team members
- Medication management skills
- Staff supervision, mentor, counsel and coach staff who need support
Timeline
Master of Science - Advance Clinical Practice
Kingston University
09.2024 -
Enhanced Response Nurse - Band 7
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
01.2024 - Current
Charge Nurse Band 6
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
01.2021 - 01.2024
Staff Nurse Band 5
South West London and St George's MH NHS Trust
09.2019 - 01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Mental Health Nursing
University of West London
NVQ Level 3 - Health and Social Care
Council for Awards in care, Health and Education
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