Jeanne-Marie Lawrence

• Continue to perform all clinical skills as documented under previous position as Registered Comprehensive Nurse on Haematology Ward.
• Nurse in Charge - co-ordinate staff to ensure patient care not compromised, ensure chemotherapy delivery, support to cover shortfall in staff competencies/knowledge, support staff when patient becomes acutely unwell, discuss patients' plan of care with medical staff and disperse to staff nurses, co-ordinate with multi disciplinary team in relation to admissions, transfers and discharges, liaise with patients and families, facilitate smooth running of shift.
• Act as role model to all staff.
• Educate as opportunity presents itself to facilitate improved quality of patient care.
• Provide safe environment for junior staff to mature and take on more responsibility
• Ensure well-being of staff; promote healthy team working.
• Talk with patients and families when they have complaints to reach solutions
• Hold Emergency Phone - triage Haematology and Oncology patients experiencing side effects of treatment and/or disease whilst at home. Organise appropriate action including prescriptions, admission to hospital, referral to another service, advice.
• Managerial duties such as staff appraisals, audits, investigating pressure sores/falls for presentation to Harms committee, investigating errors made on ward and initiating plan of action to prevent them recurring.
• Assisting Ward Manager with investigating pressure sores/falls for presentation to Harms committee,

• Provide personal care
• Wound care
• Competent in female catheterisation
• Competent in nasogastric tube placement and administering feed and medications via same
• Administer oral, subcutaneous, IM, IV medications
• Administer blood products including through blood warmer
• Competent to perform venepuncture and cannulation
• Competent to access Hickman, PICC and PORT lines to give IV medications, take bloods and change dressings
• Administer oral, subcutaneous, IV chemotherapy and immunotherapies
• Training in CADD pumps used for ambulatory chemotherapy
• Competent to administer autologous stem cell transplants
• Competent in TPN administration
• Experience in looking after acutely unwell and septic patient
• Experience in looking after neutropaenic patient
• Experience in caring for dying patient and family
• Infection Prevention link nurse for many years
• Student and New Starter mentor
• Regularly in charge on shift, as well as having own team of patients, so have experience in organising staff and myself, so that good patient care is maintained
• LCAT (Leicestershire Clinical Assessment Tool) assessor - assess competence in practice

Enrolled on the 2 year Graduate Nurse Program therefore was on a structured clinical rotation through various wards as well as having Graduate study days and assignments throughout that time.

Year 1:

• Surgical rotation - Orthopaedics
• Medical rotation - joint Oncology, Haematology, Neurology ward
• Specialty rotation - Paediatrics

Year 2:

• Emergency Department
• Medical - Revisited joint Oncology, Haematology Neurology ward