Yvette Mitchell
Erith
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Medical Associate Hospital
- Private facility that caters to the needs of patients from vaious ecomnical background. Housed at least 30 patients. Patients are treated promptly and in a timely manner. One nurse supervises the others on the day shift. One nurse works at nights.
- Role and responsibilities:
- Vital signs monitoring.
- Follow-up blood pressure checks.
- Wound care.
- Eye irrigation from chemical spills.
- Administration of medication.
- Inform doctor of outstanding results.
Chemotherapy Nurse
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Macmillan Brook Unit)
2023.09 - 2026.04
- This role entails looking after patients diagnosed with cancers both solid tumors and haematology. The treatment area is a day unit where patients are treated and sent home after. Day to day workload consist of venesection, venepuncture, picc line care, Hickman line care, porto-cath care, administration of chemotherapy drugs, via infusion, SC, and IM routes. The job role also allow me to deal with patients who have been sent home and are struggling with post chemotherapy drugs side effects who need my help and advise on what to do and proper taking of their oral medications. I also conduct pre-information sessions with patients via telephone or face to face for the up-coming chemotherapy treatments. My job role also includes liason with the patients ooncologist in regards to their treatments and care.
Hemodialysis Nurse
Sidcup Kidney Treatment Center: Queen Mary Hospital (Diaverum Kidney Treatment Center)
2022.12 - 2023.08
- This job include setting up the dialysis machine, attaching patient to machine and taking them off the machine, monitoring patients on the dialysis machine, preparing and giving patients medications, assessment of patients, taking caring of the patient in an emergency situation, teaching the patient about their conditions.
Registered Nurse
The Heart Center / Cardiac Catheter Labouatary
2022.09 - 2022.10
- The unit is a highly skilled area. Skills required included, cannulation, ECG placement/monitoring, Administering Intravenous fluids and medications, Pre/Post-op care of patients undergoing procedures such as Angiography, insertion of pacemakers/changing, Loop placement, deflation/removal of TR bands, Assessment of patients for procedures, handing over of patients to operating staffs as well as ward staffs. Liason with other multidisciplinary team. Making referral for patients in the wider community. Post op teaching regarding patients medications and care advise of implantation devices and op site care. Allow patients to make critical desicion while respecting their rights digity and privacy.
RN
Darent Valley Hospital Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
2019.09 - 2022.10
- This is a unit which cater to patients who have surgical and a highly critical needs. The ward cater to the needs of pre and post operative patients. This area also cater to the needs of patients who have been stepped down from ITU and the high dependency ward. Some of the care given are patients with parental nutrition central venous line pic lines caring for patients with septicemia and other critical conditions.
RN
Bustamante Hospital for children
Kingston 5
2014.10 - 2019.01
- Facility has medical, surgical, special care nursery wards, burns unit, ultrasound unit. Ex-ray department, and laboratories, Cardio-thorasic unit. Cases includes: Hydrocephallus, brain tumors, diabetes, congestive heart failures asthma, tetrology of fallot.
- Roles and responsibilities are:
- Assessment of patient and their family.
- Counselling and advise to patient.
- Implementing nursing care.
- Evaluate nursing care.
- Maintain patients nutritional status.
- Ensure elimination needs are met.
- Assist with activities of daily living.
- Accompany patient to and from the department to have diagnostic studies done.
- Monitor intravenous fluid therapy.
- Perform vital signs. Report abnormality.
- Managing children with gastroenteritis
- Managing children with asthma
- Daily caseload on unit is approximately 20-25 patients based on the time of year.
Uhwi
2008.08 - 2014.02
- Surgical ward and intermidiate to icu and burns unit
- This is a 20 bed unit. Housing both male and female patients. Ratio of nurse to patient is 1:5 but team nursing is practiced at all times. I reported to the floor supervisor at nights and ward sister on duties.
- Role and responsibilities :
- Ensure patient safety.
- Protect patients property.
- Maintain the therapeutic milieu
- Provide calories to meet nutritional demands.
- Medicate as prescribed.
- Advocate for patients.
- Communicate with patients relatives.
- Educate patients and their family.
- Assist patients with activities of daily living.
- Provide for the patients spiritual and psychological needs.
- Encourage patient to express their fears and anxieties.
- Monitor patient for adverse reaction to medications.
- Inform relatives and police when patient absconds ward.
- Receive patients from operating room and icu
- Suctioned patients
- Monitor EVD
- Care for all types of burns
- Prepare patients for surgery and care for them post operatively.
- Administer medications
- Custody of dangerous drugs and administering same.
- Acting charge nurse reporting to supervisors
- Conduct meetings with staff members and attending other meetings.
- Give PEG feeds, TPN, NGT feeds
- Do wound dressings of post-op patients using aseptic tecniques.
Patient Care Assistant
Uhwi
1998.08 - 2005.01
- Medical ward
- Each ward holding 25 beds on each unit. two ward are mixed. Two has male on one side and female on the other. Two are males only and female only .Semi-private hospital offering tertiary services. It’s a teaching hospital as well. Nurse to patient ratio is 1:4.i report to the charge nurse in the day and the floor supervisor at nights. Services offered are both acute and traumatic. A type a hospital. One of the 3 in the island. Accepts transfer in from other hospitals.
- Role and responsibilitie includes:
- Give bed baths, feeding of patients, empting drains, accompanying patients to differeent departmnets.
- Acting charge nurse surgery programme –ward 1.
- Monitor enrolled assistant nurses and personal care assistant.
- Participate in ward/doctors rounds.
- Order ward stock.
- Stock taking and inventory.
- Administer dangerous drugs.
- Perform conflict resolution months
- Staff.
- Address patients disagreements.
- Solve family conflicts on the ward.
- General supervision of the ward.
- Report to the matrons office.
- Staffing of workers.
- Quality assurance of ward.
- Report changes in patient health status to the doctor on duty.
- Delegation of ward duties among staff.
- Categorize patients for care and staffing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of the West Indies/Excelsior Community College
Kingston 7 2005.01 - 2008.04
Certification
- Jamaica issued December 28, 2008
- Examination was October, 2008
- No US RN license
- No CGFNS certificate
- No IELTS yet
Section name
- Completing a diploma in social works -level 3 in march 2026
- Completed a degree in health and social care with foundation in may 2026
- Principles of safeguarding and prevention - level 2 (2026)
- Principles of team leading and business management (level 2- The Skills Network). 2025
- Acute Oncology course- level 2 / Changing story of Cancer- Guy's and St. Thomas Academy (December, 2024).
- SACT Administration and patient care course (Chemotherapy) completed on June 2024 at Guy's and St. Thomas Cancer Academy.
- Certification in Diabetes Management and Care - Greenwich University - level 7 - 2022
- Practice Preceptorship- Greenwich University 2021( Mentor and Assessor for new graduates and nurses on ward area). This course was also done in Jamaica at the University of Technology- 2015
Timeline
Chemotherapy Nurse
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Macmillan Brook Unit)
2023.09 - 2026.04
Hemodialysis Nurse
Sidcup Kidney Treatment Center: Queen Mary Hospital (Diaverum Kidney Treatment Center)
2022.12 - 2023.08
Registered Nurse
The Heart Center / Cardiac Catheter Labouatary
2022.09 - 2022.10
RN
Darent Valley Hospital Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
2019.09 - 2022.10
RN
Bustamante Hospital for children
2014.10 - 2019.01
Uhwi
2008.08 - 2014.02
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of the West Indies/Excelsior Community College
2005.01 - 2008.04
Patient Care Assistant
Uhwi
1998.08 - 2005.01
Medical Associate Hospital