Compassionate and detail-oriented Registered Practical Nurse with hands-on experience in hospital settings. Skilled in patient assessments, medication administration, wound care, and working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. Adept at maintaining patient confidentiality, providing empathetic care, and managing complex patient needs in fast-paced environments.

Education: 

Practical Nursing Diploma
Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON | Jan 2020 – Sep 2021

 

RPN Bridge to BScN

George Brown College, Toronto, ON | Sept 2025-Present

 

Professional Nursing Experience 

Registered Practical Nurse - Inter-professional Resource Team (IRT)
St. Michael's Hospital | Jul 2022 – Present 

• Delivered comprehensive nursing care through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. 
• Directed and managed patient care throughout hospitalization, ensuring safe and effective outcomes. 
• Established and prioritized short and long term patient care goals. 
• Documented and executed nursing interventions based on patient assessments and care plans. 
• Collaborated with the interdisciplinary team to coordinate and optimize patient care.
• Assisted physicians during procedures, treatments and examinations. 
• Administered medications orally, intravenously, subcutaneously, rectally and intramuscularly. 
• Educated patient and families on diseases processes, treatment plans, medications, and self-care management. 
• Promoted health maintenance and recovery trough patient-centred care, education, and support. 
• Preformed general nursing duties including assessments, vital signs monitoring, phlebotomy, feeding tubes, catheters, TPN,  IV and central lines. 
• Served as clinical resource and mentor for new nursing staff 

 

3 years in Float Pool. 

I have been exposed to most areas in the hospital including: orthopaedic surgical, general medical, emergency room, OBGYN, behavioural health, trauma neurological, nephrology, cardiology/telemetry, respirology and hospice. 

 

Certified Nursing Assistant - Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)

St. Michael's Hospital | Jan 2023 - June 2024

• Assisting nurses and the multidisciplinary team with patient care, responding to call bells, ADLs
• Ensuring the unit is stocked with supplies as well as PPE

 

Clinical Extern | Medical-Surgical & Cardiac Unit

Southlake Regional Hospital | Oct 2021 - Mar 2022

• Excelling in a fast-paced environment, assisting nurses with providing patient care 
• Working under delegation to assist nurses with patient transfers, transporting and walking with patients, reporting input and output, and assisting in ADLs

 

Personal Support Worker | 

Amica Little Lake Retirement Home | May 2020 - Jan 2021

• Assisting residents with daily activities such as perineal care,  bathing and feeding, dressing, grooming, and repositioning residents.
• Providing therapeutic communication and active listening to interact with residents and family

 

Clinical Rotations:

Consolidation Nursing Student Practicum/ Clinical Placement | Rapid Assessment Unit 

Southlake Regional Hospital | Jul 2021 - Sept 2021

• Learned to become accountable and expand on skills in prioritization, time management, and delegation 
• Actively sought new learning opportunities to practice skills and controlled acts

 

Complex Specialized Care | 

Saint Vincent Bruyere Hospital 5S | May 2021 - Jun 2021                   

• Caring for patients with tracheostomies - assessing, cleaning, and suctioning tracheostomies 
• Provided patient education to patients' families, and adapted teaching techniques to the adults based on their level of development and understanding 

 

Rehabilitation and Transfer to Home Program

Queensway Carleton Hospital A4 | Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

• Working with geriatric patients to increase functional mobility and return home
• Practiced skills safely, such, as medication administration, blood glucose checks, foley catheterization, injections, IV flushing, wound dressing changes 

                  

Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Center | Sep 2020 - Oct 2020                                                   

• Recognized nursing techniques, procedures, and established standards as outlined within the scope of practice under the direction of a PSW and a practical nurse. 
• Further enhanced in active listening, critical thinking, and therapeutic communication to support the residents and their families. 

                     

Extendicare Medex Long Term Care Home | Jan 2020 - Mar 2020                                                    

• Assisted in total patient care and daily activities of living, such as helping with feeding at morning and lunch mealtimes, bathing, perineal care, toileting, grooming, and repositioning patients. 
• Assisted in one/two-person lifts as well as transfers using Sara lifts

Licences / Certifications / Affiliations:

• First Aid & CPR-C (2024)
• WHMIS (2024)
• Gentle Persuasive Approaches in Dementia Care (2024)
• Culturally Competent Nursing Care (2024)

• Intravenous insertion/Advanced IV Skill Set (2024)

• Wound Care Training (2024)

• Mental Health and Addiction Training (2024)

• Palliative Care Certification (2024)

• Geriatrics and Elder Care Certification (2024)

 

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