Stephen Galvin

• I worked in a care home in the Longsight area with patients who have long standing complex needs, and spent long periods of their lives in institutions.
• Assessed nursing needs, planned and implemented nursing intervention within a nurse/patient relationship of therapeutic alliance, from orientation to termination of the relationship.
• Liaised with people and utilised community resources, which could provide service user with opportunities for meaningful activity and connection with the local community.
• Delivered consistently high standards of individualised nursing care, and when mistakes where made, maintained an honest, open and straightforward professionalism.
• Assisted with routine medical tests and evaluations, documenting findings to aid care planning.
• Upheld patient trust and confidentiality by managing information with discretion, in accordance with data protection
• Dealt with emergencies with calm and composure.
• Monitored patient behaviour and responses to treatments and reported concerns to senior staff.
• Contributed to clinical governance of the company, quality and safeguarding, maintaining and reviewing standards of care.
• Conducted informative handovers at shift end through concise and accurate reporting and communication.
• Ordered, dispensed and administered prescribed medications and medical products.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to enhance patient care.
• Managed wound dressings, promoting healing and preventing infection.
• Identified early warning signs of deteriorating health.
• Assisted and participated actively, to generate the team culture of normalising the lives of service users, addressing barriers to service users living a fulfilling life.
• Administered medication for pain management and symptom control.
• Modelled adaptive behaviour, whilst appreciating difference as a positive source of creativity and uniqueness
• Updated patient records meticulously to ensure accurate documentation.
• Worked within the various relevant statute, local authority and company policy.
• Worked within my competency, understanding the necessity of professional boundaries.

Worked on several units of a care home that provided care for patients with complex mental and physical health needs.

Staff nurse, providing nursing care for adults with a range of severe and enduring cognitive impairments.

Unit manager of a busy unit caring for older adults with severe cognitive impairments

As a newly qualified mental health nurse, my primary interest lay in the support of patients undergoing drug or alcohol detox in an inpatient setting, and the use of my skills and knowledge to facilitate the changes necessary for people to enter into their own recovery.

I also worked within the day hospital conducting alcohol and drug assessments prior to any planned intervention, reduction, titration, opiate challenge or detox.