Lucy Crook

• Completed placements across a wide range of clinical settings, including: Elderly Care, Neurosurgery, Emergency Care, Intensive Care, Hospice Care, Surgical, Respiratory and Cardiac.
• Placements in Addenbrookes, Royal Papworth, and Peterborough City.
• Consistently building positive working relationships and integrating effectively with new teams.
• Liaised effectively with multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless patient care delivery.
• Conducted efficient handovers at shift change; ensured continuity of quality care for all patients.
• Maintained accurate medical records, enhancing efficiency in treatment plans.
• Conducted health assessments to identify areas requiring medical intervention.
• Applied clinical skills to administer IVs, injections, and catheters accurately and safely.

Working within a team in a supermarket.

• Managed own caseload of patients through being first point of contact within the Rapid Assessment Team, escalating when approriate.
• Providing care to patients in the department with excellent bedside manner.
• Upheld patient confidentiality at all times.
• Monitored patient observations, ECGs, venepuncture and cannulation.
• Liaised between patients and healthcare professionals, facilitated effective communication channels.
• Maintained stock levels of medical supplies on the ward.
• Provided basic health education to patients for proper self-care post discharge.
• Assisted in patient care, improved comfort and well-being.
• Collaborated with nurses to provide comprehensive patient care.Escorted patients for tests or procedures within the hospital premises whilst ensuring their safety and comfort.

Working within a team in a supermarket.

• Providing essential care to patients on the ward.
• Redeployed to COVID-19 ward at the start of the pandemic, providing care to extremely sick patients and liaising with a wide range of the MDT in unprecedented times.
• empathetically maintaining communication with patient relatives.

• Working within my limits in a variety of settings during hospital placements, while also progressing my job role by learning at university each week.
• Placements included orthopaedic, frail elderly, and isolation ward.

• Providing personal care to residents and completing household tasks.

• Served meals and drinks with professionalism and skill, maintaining high presentation and quality standards.