PATRICK IRANKUNDA
Dundee,Dundee City
Summary
Experienced critical care nursing professional with extensive experience in fast-paced acute care settings. Compassionate and committed to raising patient care quality through diligent assessment, monitoring and support. Advocated for enhanced patient treatment continuity through collaborative teamwork. High energy person who works great with colleagues and outside departments to coordinate safe, and successful care. Flexibility to be able to work in stressful and volatile moments by remaining calm and productive to deliver reliable critical support. Adaptable to environment by having the ability and transferable skills to work in other wards/departments from standard medical/surgical ward level care to intensive care.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Intensive care nurse
NHS Tayside
Dundee, United Kingdom
08.2022 - 03.2025
- Manage and maintain airways and/or altered airways
- Implemented and updated treatment plans in collaboration with anaesthetists and assist with intubations
- Efficiently assessed and triaged patients presenting to ICU within target timescales and completed HOURLY observations
- Identified patient deterioration through diligent observations
- Mentored student nurses and junior members of staff
- Counselled caregivers and families on end-of-life planning and patient care options
- Dealt with emergencies with calm and composure
Unit Charge Nurse
University of Missouri Hospital
11.2020 - 09.2021
- Maintained staff schedules and adjusted workflows based on changing patient loads
- Delivered compassionate care by building relationships with patients, families, and colleagues
- Implemented care plans according to patient needs and priorities
- Participated in life-saving measures, including defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Maximized unit efficiency, keeping supplies and records well-organized for expected needs
- Supported development of students, new staff, and colleagues
Registered Nurse
University Hospital of Missouri
06.2020 - 09.2021
- Developed and implemented treatment plans for patients with various acute and chronic concerns
- Dressed, cleaned, and redressed wound and incision areas
- Stabilized patients experiencing emergency complications and decompensation
- Worked closely with physicians, surgeons, and nursing staff as part of unit team
- Evaluated patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs
- Administered medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, and by central lines
- Awarded 3 Nurse of the month awards and recognition
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nurse Plus
Ashford
01.2014 - 08.2018
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported problems to nursing staff
- Transferred patients between beds, wheelchairs, and other locations
- Improved patient quality of life by assisting with activities of daily living (ADL)
- Supported registered nursing staff by following care plans
- Prevented bedsores, consistently turning patients every 2 hours
- Helped patients with limited mental and physical capacity handle daily living tasks such as feeding and grooming
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Missouri Valley College
Skills
- Unit nurse management and triaging
- Regular A to E assessments including auscultation of the lungs
- Patient and family advocacy
- IV drug therapy management including vasopressors and inotropes
- ECG monitoring and documentation
- Interpretation of Arterial blood gases (ABG)
- Management of Altered airways and Ventilation
- Catheter and wound care
- Basic Life Support Certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Managing palliative patients
- Identifying and assessing deteriorating patients
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Languages
English
Kinyarwandan
French
Custom
09/21 - 08/22, My mother was very ill, and hospitalised. I became her primary caregiver and looked after her during her hospitalisation and post hospitalisation till she was able to get back on her feet.
Personal Information
Nationality: BRITISH
Certification
Currently enrolled in Critical Care module at honors level- pending completion on 16th April 2025.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Intensive care nurse
NHS Tayside
08.2022 - 03.2025
Unit Charge Nurse
University of Missouri Hospital
11.2020 - 09.2021
Registered Nurse
University Hospital of Missouri
06.2020 - 09.2021
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nurse Plus
01.2014 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Missouri Valley College
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