Sara Halligan

Sister in A&E at Aintree. Duties include:
- Assisting the band 7 with flow of the department, escalating to them any unwell or vulnerable patients or general concerns that have been escalated to myself either by colleagues or patients
- Triage and streaming of patients to the appropriate area/speciality
- Leading teams in different areas of the department including resus, see and treat and majors
- Directly looking after patients including medication administration, personal care, planning and assessing care, risk assessments and safeguarding
- Assisting in trauma calls and emergency situations such as cardiac & respiratory arrests
- Clinical skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, blood cultures, catheterisation, completing ECGs

- Preparation and administration of medications and blood transfusions
- I am currently the student link nurse for the department which involves allocating students to a suitable practice assessor, completing their off-duty and responding to queries or complaints in regards to students in the department
- I am also the link nurse in the department for dementia and learning disabilities which involves me attending relevant meetings/study days and relaying this back to the team by doing micro-teaching sessions

Staff Nurse in Aintree A&E. Duties included: - Directly looking after patients including medication administration, personal care, planning and assessing care, risk assessments and safeguarding - Clinical skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, blood cultures, catheterisation, completing ECGs - Completed triage training in January 2023, enabling effective triage of patients as a band 5 - Led areas of the department as a band 5 during periods of limited band 6 availability, ensuring continuity of care

Staff Nurse on a general medicine ward. Duties included:
- Directly looking after patients including medication administration, personal care, planning and assessing care, risk assessments and safeguarding
- Clinical skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, blood cultures, catheterisation, completing ECGs etc
- Often, I would be expected to take charge of the ward during night shift, ensuring staffing was adequate and escalating concerns to the site team
- Recognising and escalating deteriorating patients by calling the MET team when required
- Supporting student nurses and junior staff

Support worker in a nursing home for residents with complex physical and learning disabilities. Duties included:

- Assisting with personal care
- Assisting with diet & fluid intake
- Promoting independence
- Helping residents to access the community by taking them out on day trips etc
- Escalating concerns regarding ill health or safeguarding to the nurse in charge

Agency carer/support worker in various settings such as nursing homes, residential homes, support living facilities & children's care homes. Duties included:
- Assisting with personal care
- Assisting with diet & fluid intake
- Promoting independence
- Medication administration in certain placements
- Escalating unwell residents to the nurse in charge
- Escalating safeguarding issues

Carer in the community for elderly service users in their own home. Duties included:

- Medication administration
- Personal care
- Meal preparation
- Companionship
- Supporting service users to access the community

I was a personal assistant to a young man with cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis. Duties included:

- Medication administration
- Assisting with meals
- Helping him to build and design his website
- Helping with the day to day running of his company including composing emails, making phone calls etc

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