PORTIA PATRICIA NDORI

Summer vacation job

• Fruit picking different kinds of berries: Strawberries, honey berries, black berries, raspberries, blue berries, currents, cranberries to mention but a few.
• Reporting on all logistics and travel safety of student workers.
• Providing exceptional hands on solutions which, address inquiries and resolve issues in timely manner.
• Contributed to positive work environment by maintaining professional demeanor and upbeat attitude throughout busy holiday season.
• Developed strong relationships with coworkers through effective communication skills, fostering teamwork within our group.
• Worked closely with supervisors to quickly address any concerns or challenges that arose during busy seasonal periods.
• Led team of hundred and fiffty fruit picking personnel.

Geriatrics and geriatric nursing.

• Checking and recording vital signs.
• Preparing and administering medication
• Removal of empty I.V fluid bags
• Cleaning stomas and changing full stoma bags and urine bags.
• Bed baths, clothes change and making beds
• Feeding using all routes; mouth, gastric tube or through PEG
• Performing patient interviews and experience in

their adaptation

Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing

• Supported staff members in their daily tasks, checking vital signs, general assessments, medication administration, feeding bed bound patients, and bathing those who could not do their day today task and monitoring patients fluid intake and output.
• Gained valuable experience working within this specific ward where care and security is key to ensure safety of both patients and staff
• Spread and organized patients living area especially those who were critical and bed bound other group we encouraged them to do it themselves with minimum help, we also learnt recording medicines and activities on work computer, and reports.
• Gained hands-on experience in advanced care of psychiatric patients, increasing my proficiency and expanding health education , counseling and care management skills.

Neurology and neurological nursing

• Checking, monitoring and recording vital signs
• Head to toe assessment
• Cannular and catheterization procedures with help of mentor
• Drug preparation and administration
• Blood samples for lab tests
• Wound dressing
• Patient education
• Referrals for own going counseling and therapy

Thesis Research; nursing care in chronic renal failure

• Observations and recording all predialysis activities; vital signs assessment, blood glucose test, patient education, equipment assessment and preparation
• Observations and assisting on dialysis procedure activities which follow; monitoring vital signs especially blood pressure, assessing patient's reaction to treatment, removing waste bags.

Anesthesiology, Surgery and surgical nursing

• Preparing patients for surgery by educating them
• Adaptation of patients in ward
• Blood samples for lab tests
• Monitoring and recording vital signs
• Assisted nurses with shaving and marking site
• Provide support for both patient and family
• Assist in transporting patient to theater.

Palliative care and long term care.

• Monitoring and recording vital signs
• Wound care especially bedsores and care in diabetic and cancer wounds
• Hyperbaric referrals and lab tests required for that oxygen therapy
• Preparing patients for scans and other procedures
• Catheterization and cannulation
• Monitoring fluid balance charts
• Continual assurance and providing emotional support
• Cleaning intravenous access, catheter using aseptic technics to rule out infections
• Feeding patients orally, nasogastric tube or through PEG
• Preparing and administering medication
• Bed baths, clothe change and bed making

Primary Health care

• Monitoring and recording vital signs
• Bed baths, clothes changing and bed making
• Feeding patients
• Assisting patient in moving from point A to B
• Provide emotional support through team building games
• Observe immunization and other vaccine procedures

• Coordinated schedules and timelines for events.
• Adapted quickly when faced with unexpected challenges or changes in plans, maintaining composure while finding effective solutions.
• Managed event logistics and operations.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless event execution and positive outcomes.
• Manage events budgets
• Supervise catering, decor and seating arrangements
• Maintaining and updating client lists and marketing functions facilities.

• Mentored junior staff members and volunteers, helping them develop their skills and advance in cabbing gap in fight against HIV/AIDS.
• Facilitating identification, registration and verification of our clientele base working with communities and partners.
• Enhanced communication between team members and clientele by organizing regular meetings: workshops and refresher courses that fostered open dialogue.
• Established effective relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally for increased collaboration opportunities.
• Monthly project evaluations and report writing