Claire Gargini
Slough,Berkshire
Summary
Professional individual with Acute emergency, Acute medicine, Minor injury and illness and primary care experience, Seeks Advanced Nurse Practitioner/ Emergency nurse practitioner role.
Adaptable and proactive and responsive with patient assessments, diagnostic skills, treatment and management of conditions.
A Compassionate healthcare professional committed to providing high quality holistic care.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work history
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Frimley health trust
Wexham , Berkshire
05.2017 - Current
- Worked as a trainee Advanced nurse practitioner from 2017-2023, and qualified as an advanced nurse practitioner May 2023.
- Provided clinical leadership and management skills to maintain high standard of care throughout the emergency medicine team and ambulatory care unit as the acting unit manager between Jan 2020-may 2022.
- Carry out clinical assessment, diagnostic tests and have skills to diagnosis, treat and manage same day emergency patients.
- Requesting additional diagnostic investigations as required, interpreting results to develop targeted treatment programmes.
- Practicing and Delivering care in line with clinical guidelines for continued practice compliance.
- Demonstrated expert clinical skills and critical judgement to provide safe, appropriate patient-centred care.
- Efficiently assessed and triaged patients presenting to A&E within target timescales.
- Managed patient referrals within multi-disciplinary practice teams and secondary care organisations.
Nurse practitioner
Walk in centre, Berkshire health care trust
Slough, Berkshire
04.2016 - 05.2017
- Triaged patients on arrival to identify the deteriorating/unwell patient.
- I carried out the Assessment, diagnosis, treatment and the management of walk in patients with a variety of minor injury and illness presentations.
- Identified unwell emergency cases, carrying out emergency assessment and management and got them transferred safely to the emergency services and emergency care.
- Additional role in the walk in centre as a practice nurse, carrying out smears, baby immunisations, ear irrigation, wound care, chronic disease management clinics.
- Diagnosis and management of conditions, prescribed medications with PGD’s.
- Referral to appropriate specialist or service for further care.
- Educated patients about reproductive health issues and dispensed contraceptives.
Practice Nurse
The Misbourne Surgery
Chalfont St Peter , Buckinghamshire
03.2015 - 04.2016
- Assisted General Practitioners in performing effective treatments
- Optimised patient outcomes by assessing, monitoring and documenting patient progress and measuring findings against treatment plan
- Prioritised health problems to assist patients in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Implemented and managed travel vaccination and immunisation, carried out cervical smear testing. Wound care management such as compression bandaging dopplers, ear irrigation, baby immunisations.
- Supported physicians and consultants with tests and procedures.
- Assisted with routine medical tests and evaluations, documenting findings to aid care planning.
- Worked closely with fellow nurses, doctors and clinicians for consistent communication and continued best care practices.
- Maintained accurate, up-to-date patient records, maximising data accuracy.
- Educated patients on good health, providing leaflets and verbal guidance on improved wellbeing measures.
- Delivered life support with updated first aid and CPR training.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, carrying out and reporting regular observations.
- Mentored junior team members, strengthening high-functioning, efficient clinical teamwork.
- Carried out flu vaccine clinics
Emergency nurse
Wexham park hospital
Slough , Berkshire
04.2011 - 05.2015
- Remained calm under pressure to professionally handle evolving emergency scenarios.
- Educated patients, caregivers and families on diagnoses, treatment and disease prevention.
- Maintained comprehensive patient care plans and monitored implementation of physicians' orders.
- Communicated with external departments to facilitate critical patient admissions.
- Provided excellent care with focus on patient safety, comfort and dignity.
- Documented and evaluated effectiveness of care plans and interventions.
- Coordinated and performed patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
- Supported physicians and consultants with tests and procedures.
- Built and maintained excellent rapport with patients and loved ones.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary healthcare specialists to devise, implement and modify plans of care defining patient outcome goals.
- Precepted new staff nurses to provide education on hospital policies and procedures.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, carrying out and reporting regular observations.
- Supported patients with critical conditions, planning and implementing targeted strategies for optimal recovery outcomes.
- Ordered, dispensed and administered prescribed medications and medical products.
- Conducted informative handovers at shift end through concise and accurate reporting and communication.
- Liaised with senior physicians to plan timely, successful patient discharges.
- Assisted with routine medical tests and evaluations, documenting findings to aid care planning.
- Trained and mentored junior team members, strengthening high-functioning, efficient clinical teamwork.
- Administered oxygen and medication to achieve optimum health outcomes.
- Quickly responded to medical emergencies, working calmly and professionally under pressure.
- Prioritised health problems to assist patients in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Maintained accurate, up-to-date patient records, maximising data accuracy.
- Delivered life support with updated first aid and CPR training.
- Cared for paediatric emergency’s and adult emergency’s in resus.
- Provided resuscitation care
- Safeguarded patients
- Coordinated areas in the emergency department
- Triaged patients
- Applied plaster casts, sutured wounds, catheterised patients, gave emergency medications and blood products.
Staff Nurse - AMU
Frimley Health
Slough, Berkshire
11.2009 - 04.2011
- Quickly responded to medical emergencies, working calmly and professionally under pressure.
- Administered oxygen and medication to achieve optimum health outcomes.
- Implemented and updated treatment plans in collaboration with doctors.
- Upheld patient trust and confidentiality by managing information with discretion, in accordance with data protection laws.
- Managed patient discharges, providing relevant follow-up care advice with required prescriptions and medication.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, carrying out and reporting regular observations.
- Delivered consistently high standards of individualised nursing care, best maintaining patients' health and wellbeing.
- Built caring, compassionate relationships with patients, providing emotional support and encouragement.
- Supported patients with critical conditions, planning and implementing targeted strategies for optimal recovery outcomes.
- Prioritised health problems to assist patients in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Worked closely with fellow nurses, doctors and clinicians for consistent communication and continued best care practices.
Education
Master of Science - Advanced nursing practice
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford05.2023
Post Graduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing - Adult And Paediatric Emergency Care
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford09.2015
Diploma of Higher Education - Adult nursing
Thames Valley University
Slough05.2010
Access to nursing - Adult nursing
Thames Valley University
Slough 01.2007
Skills
- Advanced nursing skills (master of science in advanced nursing practice)
- Registered independent prescriber V300
- Resuscitation skills
- Previous unit manager- leadership, skills, mentorship
- Acute and chronic condition management
- Interdepartmental referrals, speciality referrals
- Able to request and check diagnostic tests such as: X-ray, CT, ultrasound requests
- Suturing and plastering
- Emergency Triage
- Minor injury and illness
Hobbies
Swimming, horse riding, family, music
Timeline
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Frimley health trust
05.2017 - Current
Nurse practitioner
Walk in centre, Berkshire health care trust
04.2016 - 05.2017
Practice Nurse
The Misbourne Surgery
03.2015 - 04.2016
Emergency nurse
Wexham park hospital
04.2011 - 05.2015
Staff Nurse - AMU
Frimley Health
11.2009 - 04.2011
Master of Science - Advanced nursing practice
Oxford Brookes University
Post Graduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing - Adult And Paediatric Emergency Care
Oxford Brookes University
Diploma of Higher Education - Adult nursing
Thames Valley University
Access to nursing - Adult nursing
Thames Valley University
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