Sarah Watson

My role as a band 3 senior health care assistant on a orthopaedic trauma consists of providing care for pre and post op for patients who have sustained a traumatic orthopaedic trauma.

The tasks I carry out for the patients I'm caring for is helping patients with personal care as and when needed, while promoting independence. Assisting patients to change into surgical gowns pre surgery, as well as helping patients in or out of day and nightwear during their recovery. Assisting patients with eating their meals and having drinks ad hoc, while encouraging patients to keep up their oral intake. Assisting patients to mobilize as and when required while following the care plan set out by the physio and occupational therapists.

I am also responsible for carrying out observations at set intervals these include post surgical enhanced observations and reporting any anomalies to the nurse and doctor (if on the ward) caring for the patient.

I am also responsible for venipuncture, carrying out ECG's, inserting cannulas as well as over all cannula care, Preforming bladder scans and reporting my findings to the nurse caring for the patient and inserting a catheter when needed, as well as preforming catheter care.

I care for a diverse range of patients, who have individual needs, this means I have to adapt my approach to patients individual care. It is important to gain the trust of patients and families by maintaining confidentiality and professionalism in all situations.

When assisting in an emergency situation it is important I maintain calm and professional, while working as part of a multi discipline team(MDT). Follow instructions and carry out life saving tasks while working under pressure.

When caring for end-of-life care it is important the care is delivered in a compassionate, respectful manor while maintaining dignity of the individual at all times.

It is important to ensure a high level of hygiene through out the ward in line with the trust infection control policy, as well as keeping the ward stocked up to ensure patient care and safety is maintained at all times.

My role as a band 2 as a bank health care support worker.

As a bank health care support worker I worked on a wide verity of wards including but not limited to emergency department, emergency assessment unit, endocrine ward, stroke unit and outpatients department.

The tasks I carry out for the patients I'm caring for is helping patients with personal care as and when needed, while promoting independence. Helping patients in or out of day and nightwear during their recovery. Assisting patients with eating their meals and having drinks ad hoc, while encouraging patients to keep up their oral intake. Assisting patients to mobilize as and when required while following the care plan set out by the physio and occupational therapists.

I am also responsible for carrying out observations at set intervals these include post surgical enhanced observations and reporting any anomalies to the nurse and doctor (if on the ward) caring for the patient.

I care for a diverse range of patients, who have individual needs, this means I have to adapt my approach to patients individual care. It is important to gain the trust of patients and families by maintaining confidentiality and professionalism in all situations.

When assisting in an emergency situation it is important I maintain calm and professional, while working as part of a multi discipline team(MDT). Follow instructions and carry out life saving tasks while working under pressure.

When caring for end-of-life care it is important the care is delivered in a compassionate, respectful manor while maintaining dignity of the individual at all times.

It is important to ensure a high level of hygiene through out the ward in line with the trust infection control policy, as well as keeping the ward stocked up to ensure patient care and safety is maintained at all times.

My responsibilities included, checking patients visual acuity, colour vision, eye pressures using Icare, carrying out visual field tests, administering dilating drops. preparing cataract consent packs in preparation for surgery and laser treatment consent packs. Uploading patient test results onto medisight as well as recording test results in patients medical notes. Contacting wards to ensure inpatients are well enough to attend their appointment in outpatients.

Cleaning down all clinical areas, collecting in all medical notes at the end of the clinic and taking them to the PPC's.

Ensuring transport patients are made priority to ensure they are seen in a timely manner and made ready to return home as quickly as possible. ordering snack packs for inpatients and transport patients who have missed a meal and or diabetic.

I started on the emergency assessment unit (EAU) as a band 2 health care support worker, after 10 month of working on EAU I was promoted to a band 3 senior health care support worker. Working on EAU meant I was working with a multi discipline team (MDT) this is because I was working with a diverse range of patients and medical conditions. This meant I was caring for patients with but not limited to social admissions, UTI's, delirium, alcohol and drug related admissions, cardiac related conditions as well as diabetic conditions.

The tasks I carry out for the patients I'm caring for is helping patients with personal care as and when needed, while promoting independence. Assisting patients to change in or out of day and nightwear during their recovery. Assisting patients with eating their meals and having drinks ad hoc, while encouraging patients to keep up their oral intake. Assisting patients to mobilize as and when required while following the care plan set out by the physio and occupational therapists.

I am also responsible for carrying out observations at set intervals and reporting any anomalies to the nurse and doctor (if on the ward) caring for the patient.

I am also responsible for venipuncture, carrying out ECG's, inserting cannulas as well as over all cannula care, Preforming bladder scans and reporting my findings to the nurse caring for the patient and inserting a catheter when needed, as well as preforming catheter care.

I care for a diverse range of patients, who have individual needs, this means I have to adapt my approach to patients individual care. It is important to gain the trust of patients and families by maintaining confidentiality and professionalism in all situations.

When assisting in an emergency situation it is important I maintain calm and professional, while working as part of a multi discipline team(MDT). Follow instructions and carry out life saving tasks while working under pressure.

When caring for end-of-life care it is important the care is delivered in a compassionate, respectful manor while maintaining dignity of the individual at all times.

It is important to ensure a high level of hygiene through out the ward in line with the trust infection control policy, as well as keeping the ward stocked up to ensure patient care and safety is maintained at all times.

During this employment I was responsible for providing care to service user in their own homes. I would help the service users with personal care and also help the service users select clothes ready for the day ahead. I was responsible for dispensing medication from pre made blister packs at the correct time intervals. If it wasn't possible to give the medication due to time gaps not being appropriate I need to ensure this was documented and reported to my coordinator. my other duties included pre paring food at meal times, carrying out domestic duties, shopping sitting in the service users homes to ensure the service user was safe while allowing family members to go out or just to provide company for the individual and also social visits to ensure the service user could get out of the house and carry out tasks they may need to do or just to socialize.

During this employment I was responsible for providing care to service user in their own homes. I would help the service users with personal care and also help the service users select clothes ready for the day ahead. I was responsible for dispensing medication from pre made blister packs at the correct time intervals. If it wasn't possible to give the medication due to time gaps not being appropriate I need to ensure this was documented and reported to my coordinator. my other duties included pre paring food at meal times, carrying out domestic duties, shopping sitting in the service users homes to ensure the service user was safe while allowing family members to go out or just to provide company for the individual and also social visits to ensure the service user could get out of the house and carry out tasks they may need to do or just to socialize.