Kerry Duckett

Work covered all wards and departments within the hospital, both children and adult wards.

*Duties included all aspects of patient care; accurate fluid chart monitoring.

*Effective written and communication skills through note writing, discussion with patients and relatives/carers, referrals to other agencies and communicating via the telephone.

*Time keeping and prioritising care.

*Holistic care including assessment, identification of the deteriorating patient, nutritional support, skin care, wound management.

*Using central lines and cannulas using the ANTT approach.

*Administering medications according to trust policy including oral, intravenous, subcutaneous.

*All aspects of personal care, washing, assisting with toileting. Catheter Care. Nutritional support including Nasal Gastric and Peg feeds. Supporting the team, my colleagues.

*Treating patients with both Haematology and Oncology conditions and those post stem cell transplant.

*Accurate fluid chart monitoring. Effective written and communication skills through note writing, discussion with patients and relatives/carers, referrals to other agencies and communicating via the telephone.

*Time keeping and prioritising care. Holistic care including nutritional support, skin care, wound management.

*Using central lines and cannulas using the ANTT approach. *Administering medications according to trust policy including oral, intravenous, subcutaneous.

*Chemotherapy administration.

*All aspects of personal care, washing, assisting with toileting. *Catheter Care.

*Nutritional support including TPN, Nasal Gastric and Peg feeds. *Supporting the team, my colleagues.

*Venepuncture and cannulation skills, but unfortunately left before it was completed.

I would have been working on the new CAMHS unit (Sowenna) which was being built in Bodmin but not open at that time of my employment.

In the meantime I received training on relevant subjects to the unit such as; attachment and behaviour theories, eating disorders, medication to name just a few. Having practical experience through being placed on the adult inpatient Mental Health Wards and learning the routine of the ward and all about the Mental Health Act.

As a senior band 5 my responsibilities and duties include: *Supporting and teaching junior members of staff and students. *Taking charge of the ward (dealing with staffing, discharges, admissions and bed moves).

*Working as part of the multidisciplinary team for example physio, dietitian, pharmacist, leading ward rounds.

*Administering medications according to trust policy including oral, intravenous, subcutaneous.

*Administering chemotherapy and bone marrow.

*Using central lines and cannulas using the ANTT approach. *Working with and supporting clients and their families/carers providing support, and teaching.

*Working alongside teams such as palliative care, teenage cancer trust.

*Effective written and communication skills through note writing, ward round, referrals to other agencies and communicating via the telephone.

*Time keeping and prioritising care. Holistic care including nutritional support, skin care, wound management.

*Accurate fluid chart monitoring.

Working as Children's Nurse on a mixed Children and Adult Haematology Bone Marrow Transplant ward.

Looking after Patients undergoing and administering high doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and administering bone marrow transplants.

Care included:

*Identification of the deteriorating patient.

*Observations.

*Administering medications and blood products including Chemotherapy, Nutritional support, including Total Parental Nutrition (TPN), blood, platlets, fluids.

*Nasal Gastric and Gastrostomy feeds. (and all written in previous job description).

First job post qualifying as a Nurse, working on a Children's ward consisting of two specialities -burns and plastics and neurology.

Duties included:

*Observations including neurological.

*Administering medications.

*Nutritional support (TPN, NG & Gastrostomy).

*Plaster care/hip spica.

*Fluid management and replacement Wound and dressing care *Drain management

*Tracheostomy care.