Ishara Malmie Thalpage
Eastbourne,East Sussex
Summary
Compassionate Registered Nurse with strong clinical knowledge and exceptional communication skills. Proficient in patient care and teamwork, ensuring seamless coordination and support in healthcare settings. Demonstrates strong communication skills and multidisciplinary collaboration to enhance clinical assessments and end-of-life care assistance. Committed to delivering high-quality care and improving patient outcomes through dedicated service.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior care assistant
Avalon Nursing Home
Eastbourne, East Sussex
12.2022 - Current
- Helping vulnerable people live as comfortably as possible.
- Assist in all aspects of personal care, retaining comfort and dignity.
- Monitor changes in physical and mental health, reporting deterioration to registered nurse for urgent attention.
- Aid service users in everyday activities, such as washing and dressing, ensuring constant safety and effective care.
- Safely escort patients during medical appointments and hospital visits.
- Support clinical staff to complete health assessments.
- Ensure safe, secure living conditions for service users, reducing risk and enhancing quality of life.
- Prepare healthy meals with additional mealtime planning, assistant and support.
- Actively develop professional healthcare competencies through regular training.
- Complete care documentation and monitor patient progress to achieve up to date records.
- Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals enhancing teamwork.
Registered nurse - Medical ward
Base Hospital Homagama
Homagama, Sri Lanka
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Ensure that doctors' orders were effectively carried out, including emergency care, medical and surgical procedures.
- Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and families.
- Performed approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based on patients' conditions, urinary catheterization and specimen collection.
- Assure quality care adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and resolve patients' problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Monitor and assess patients for changes including vital signs, fluid intake and output, nutritional status, pain levels and consciousness levels and document them and performed necessary interventions to address the issues in the patients condition.
- Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols
Registered nurse - Mental Health Unit
Base Hospital Homagama
Homagama, Sri Lanka
10.2020 - 11.2021
- Building relationships with patients to determine their preferences.
- Utilize advanced equipment for precise diagnosis and treatment delivery.
- Administering medication and treatments.
- Monitoring patients' conditions to ensure they follow the treatment plan a doctor has prescribed.
- Dealing with specific symptoms that can accompany mental health conditions, such as behavioral issues and personality changes.
- De-escalating challenging situations for patients to maintain a protective environment.
- Managing patient records to ensure good organization onwards.
- Hosting group or one-on-one therapy sessions.
- Providing physical support to patients, such as by cleaning rooms, changing beds or assisting with daily tasks.
- Communicating with patients' families about treatment progress, diagnoses and recovery plans.
- Collaborating with doctors, nurses and psychiatrists to fulfil patient treatment plan.
Registered nurse -General Operating Theatre
Base Hospital Homagama
Homagama, Sri Lanka
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Providing information about the operation. Fielding patient’s questions.
- Supporting the anaesthetist.
- Preparing all necessary instruments, devices and drugs. Working with the surgeon to provide instruments, needles, swabs and other materials.
- Act as an intermediary between the surgical team and other parts of the theatre and hospital Offering the patient care and support.
- Monitoring the patient's ongoing health Providing care and treatment until the patient has recovered from the effects of the anaesthesia and/or surgery.
- Assessing the care given during each of the perioperative phases.
- Assessing the patient to ensure they can be discharged.
Registered nurse - Pediatric ward
Base Hospital Homagama
Homagama - Sri Lanka
09.2018 - 10.2019
- Cares for babies, toddlers, children, and teenagers.
- Utilize advanced equipment for precise diagnosis and treatment delivery.
- Updates patient charts and electronic health records (EHR).
- Uses popular medical practice management software.
- Performs medical tasks, including drawing blood and giving shots.
- Observes, monitors and records pediatric in-patients’ medical history, symptoms and vital signs.
- Administers medication and other doctor-recommended treatment plans.
- Advises patients and their parents on medication instructions and at-home care.
Critical care nurse - Cardio-Thoracic
National Hospital of Sri Lanka
Colombo- Sri Lanka
04.2009 - 08.2018
- Caring for adult and pediatric patients who are suffering from acute and long term illness, Coronary diseases, Valvular Heart diseases, congenital heart diseases and other cardio thoracic surgeries and complex cardiac procedures.
- Immense ability to respond to cardiac emergencies like cardio respiratory arrest.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of caring patients undergone surgeries and mechanical ventilated patients.
- Proficient with performing Dialysis for renal impairment patients.
- Familiarity with performing 12 leads ECG, electrocardiogram telemetry monitoring, advanced cardiac life support, defibrillation and medication.
- Proficient with assisting CV line insertion, ETT intubation, chest tube placement and arterial line placement.
- Immense ability for cannulation, taking arterial and venous blood samples for investigations.
- Analysing and reporting blood gas, electrolytes and hematocrit reports .
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship with patients, relatives and the members of the health team.
- Ability to interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements.
- Ability to provide the care needed as described in the unit's policies and procedures.
- Familiarity with advance computer skills such as word, Excel and typing.
Education
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
The Open University of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka 09.2012 - 09.2016
Diploma in General Nursing -
Nursing Training School Badulla Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka 11.2005 - 11.2008
Skills
- Patient-centered care
- Good Commutation ability
- Oxygen administration
- Intensive care expertise
- End Of Life Care Assistance
- Patient satisfaction
- Acute and critical care
- Accident and critical care
- Catheter and tracheotomy care
- Infection control procedures
- Patient confidentiality
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Clinical assessment
Reference
Mrs Lynn Shingfield
Registered Manager
Avalon Nursing Home
3-5 Nevill Avenue
Eastbourne
United Kingdom.
lynn@avalonnursingcare.co.uk
Reference
Mrs ChinthaUluwaduge
Chief Nursing Officer
Base Hospital Homagama
Homagama
Sri Lanka
uwchintha@gmail.com
Timeline
Senior care assistant
Avalon Nursing Home
12.2022 - Current
Registered nurse - Medical ward
Base Hospital Homagama
11.2021 - 11.2022
Registered nurse - Mental Health Unit
Base Hospital Homagama
10.2020 - 11.2021
Registered nurse -General Operating Theatre
Base Hospital Homagama
10.2019 - 10.2020
Registered nurse - Pediatric ward
Base Hospital Homagama
09.2018 - 10.2019
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
The Open University of Sri Lanka
09.2012 - 09.2016
Critical care nurse - Cardio-Thoracic
National Hospital of Sri Lanka
04.2009 - 08.2018
Diploma in General Nursing -
Nursing Training School Badulla Sri Lanka
11.2005 - 11.2008
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