Hey I am Agnes

Cambridge Medical & Rehabilitation Center
(Staff Nurse/ Transport Nurse)

Working as a Staff Nurse, assigned in adult long term care patients and Active rehab patients requiring specialized care in a rehabilitation setting, having suffered strokes, near-drownings, brain injuries, muscular-skeletal injuries, or neurological and congenital conditions.

 As a staff nurse, I actively participate in daily clinical rounds and Interdisciplinary (IDT) discussions, administering prescribed medications following International Patient Safety Goals including the medication rights to reduce the potential for medication errors.

 Handling patients with Tracheostomy, PEG/ PEJ tube for feeding and Patients with multiple contraptions.

 Monitors the patient’s progress toward goals; collaborates with the multi – disciplinary team to promote patient safety and evaluation against the Plan of Care

 Carry out clinical practice ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations for residents are provided from admission through discharge

 Demonstrates ability to organize and prioritize workload independently

 Initiates appropriate preventive and clinical nursing procedures.

 Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.

 Complies with all organizational policies

 Possesses the specialized knowledge and clinical skills required to provide care for people with physical disability and chronic illness.

• Provided basic patient care and treatment, such as administering medications and intravenous fluids, blood tests, taking vital signs and dressing wounds.

• Supported diagnoses by taking blood, urine or sputum samples from patients for laboratory testing.

• Helped patients complete day-to-day tasks, including bathing, dressing and eating.



Transport Nurse Duties and Responsibilities

 Transporting Patient from CMRC to outside areas, other facilities for consultation, follow up, diagnostic procedures, and etc. Providing safety and nursing care, meeting the medical needs while transporting the patient.

 Operates equipment needed for monitoring and nursing procedures

 constantly assesses the patient enroute to the emergency facility, outpatient setting, ambulance service setting and when, patient transfer is needed to an appropriate healthcare facility/inter- facility.,

 assists in lifting and carrying the patient out of the ambulance and into the receiving medical facility

 reports verbally and in writing observations and medical care rendered to the patient, to the receiving medical facility staff for purposes of records and diagnostics

 Assigned to prepare the necessary daily consumables for the ambulance and

 Performs yearly renewal of Ambulance HAAD Audit for BLS licensing.