MGBEAHURUIKE CHIKAODI AKUNNA
Summary
Dedicated health service management professional with extensive experience in medical care work. Skilled in healthcare planning and coordination, achieving productive, profitable business operations. Passionate in delivering safe, quality clinical support to achieve first-class service user ratings.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Band 7
Navigo Health and Social Care CIC
03.2019
- Working across North East Lincolnshire providing mental health advice and leadership based on an agreed operational policy and evidence based practice
- To assist in developing and evaluation of models of care to enable effective communication and to facilitate best practice taking into account available resources
- Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings, meetings associated with the Mental Capacity Act/Mental Health Act/Continuing Healthcare and team meetings
- Monitoring, evaluation and maintenance of the highest achievable standards of care
- Coordinate transfer or referral of service users to other teams or services where required
- Prioritise, plan and coordinate own workload and activities in line with the changing needs of the team and service
- This includes planning and monitoring client medication needs, making appointments for clients, conducting assessments, managing emergencies and enquiries, responding to crisis work within individual case-load, ensuring patient records are up to date and supporting colleagues on a daily basis
- Work independently and to be able to resolve complex professional problems
- Crisis response to other staff’s service users in the event of key worker’s absence, and delegation from manager
- Participating in the implementation of an effective clinical supervision structure across the service
- Assess skill mix and identify areas of development within the Team
- Participate in the continued development of a comprehensive Risk Assessment and Management strategy for the service
- Provide professional support to staff by devising and implementing a framework for critical incident analysis and de-brief
- Provide and set up appropriate clinical training for staff across the Team
- Take managerial responsibility for Older People’s Services in the absence of the Senior Operational Manager
- To work with and support the Senior Operational Manager with sound financial approaches to finances and budgets
- Ensure that appropriate systems are in place in support of all aspects of day to day administration and forward planning of human resources in an effective way
- Support in providing a safe environment for service users, staff and visitors through effective Health and Safety at Work awareness and provision of good standard relating to the ward environment
- Liaise with other members of the MDT and act as a link between the acute areas and CMHMS
- Participate in meetings as appropriate and act as chair for relevant meetings
- Facilitate the implementation of the new model of care for Older People’s Mental Health Services and act as liaison between staff and senior management regarding the change process.
Nursing officer 1/RN/RPN
Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba
Lagos
07.2010 - 03.2019
- Providing psychiatric mental health services to the public across all ages
- Outpatient clinics for both acute and chronic mental disorders, 24 hours psychiatric emergency service, inpatient care of both acute and chronic mental illness, clinical psychology, outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry clinic, outpatient geriatric psychiatric clinic, drug abuse and rehabilitation unit, occupational therapy department, diagnostic/laboratory services, ECT unit
- Present work unit: Psychiatric Emergency unit attending to adults with psychiatric emergencies for admission for observation and outpatient basis for stabilization of mental health crisis.
Senior Nursing Sister/ RN/RM
Lagoon Hospitals
Lagos
01.1999 - 10.2004
- Working in a privately owned hospital that offers primary to tertiary levels of health care
- Units worked: Medical/Surgical unit, Labour unit, ER unit, HIV/AIDS clinic.
Staff Nurse
Providence Hospital
Lagos
05.1996 - 12.1998
- Working in a hospital setting.
Education
University of Derby
06.2014 - 05.2015
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School of post basic psychiatric/mental health nursing Yaba
03.1995 - 05.1996
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School of Midwifery, Aboh- Mbaise
10.1991 - 04.1994
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Ministry of health school of nursing Owerri
10.1991 - 04.1994
Skills
- Strong verbal communication
- Attention to detail
- Community activities
- Medication administration
- Client safety and First Aid
- Life-sustaining machines
- Catheter and wound care
- Adult acute and critical care
- Compasionate client care
Custom
- RN License, 001/84360, 02/22/95, Nigeria
- RM License, 683, 08/23/96, Nigeria
- RPN License, 02/22/16, Nigeria
- Registered Nurse - Adult& Mental health, 19F025O
Timeline
Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Band 7
Navigo Health and Social Care CIC
03.2019
University of Derby
06.2014 - 05.2015
Nursing officer 1/RN/RPN
Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba
07.2010 - 03.2019
Senior Nursing Sister/ RN/RM
Lagoon Hospitals
01.1999 - 10.2004
Staff Nurse
Providence Hospital
05.1996 - 12.1998
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School of post basic psychiatric/mental health nursing Yaba
03.1995 - 05.1996
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School of Midwifery, Aboh- Mbaise
10.1991 - 04.1994
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Ministry of health school of nursing Owerri
10.1991 - 04.1994