Joseph Abuga

P.O. BOX 3603-00200

Nairobi.
Tel: +254723407948
Email:[email protected]

Professional Summary
The combination of my strong nursing background it gives me a strong desire to take care of patients
with a unique opportunity to make a positive contribution as a mental health/Accident and emergency
nurse. Also my advanced training Acute Trauma life support has enabled me to be empathetic and pay
attention to patients’ behavior and response to their treatments effectively. Am too a critical thinker with
problem solving abilities who has demonstrated competency in assessing, planning care and de-
escalating stressful situations in patients.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

 Clinical Skills: I have knowledge in nursing and medical management of cases in

various hospital departments; to include inpatient, outpatient and proper documentation
while at it.
 Counselling skills: knowledgeable and passionate on offering guidance and counselling
to patients and their families on health- seeking behaviors and treatment options.
 Team working skills: experienced in working with team healthcare workers to ensure
promotion of proper and professional healthcare services to patients.
 Communication Skills: I am an excellent communicator who effectively conveys
information both verbally and in writing. With this I have been able to mentor students.
 Decision Making and Problem-Solving Skills: I am able to make timely, well
considered and logical decisions on problem situations that may arise so as to find
appropriate and workable solutions.
 Organization and Planning: A highly organized individual who approaches all their work
in a methodical and professional manner.

November 2022 to date

Registered Nurse – Wound and Stoma Care
Hours of work – 40 hours
Kenyatta University Teaching Referral and Research Hospital
Nairobi.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Care and assess patients with wounds, ostomies and other skin related issues.
 Checking patients’ skin for preventing pressure ulcers, applying medicated salves and gave them
other treatments for the existing wounds
 Assisting doctors in dressing the wound and applied wound vac.
 Assess and implement plans for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic wounds.
 Ensuring that patient's needs are met in accordance with the standards of medical practice.
 Educate patients/families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
  Maintain patient charts and confidential files.

March 2021 to October 2022

Registered Nurse - Pediatrics
Hours of work – PRN/LOCUM
M.P Shar Hospital
Nairobi.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Monitor, record and report symptoms or changes in patient conditions
 Document required weekly wound tracking and wound evaluations.
 Perform weekly rounds with physicians and surgeons as part of patient care team.
 Work with children who experience orthopedic, respiratory, neurological, and many other medical
issues
 Maintaining accurate, detailed reports and records
 Consulting and coordinating with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement and/or
evaluate patient care plans
 Review thorough medical history of patient, use information from history and assessment to make
accurate diagnosis.
 Monitor and obtain vital signs, identified any abnormalities, communicated results to physicians,
formulated a plan of care utilizing specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skills and
provided appropriate care to the patients.
 Perform head to toe physical exam; order necessary labs and tests
 Interpret lab values and incorporate with diagnosis and treatment plan
 Educate parents and families about various pediatric concerns, issues, and healthcare topics
 Write thorough SOAP notes and provided appropriate documentation
 Referring patients as needed to appropriate specialists

May 2021 to June 2022

Registered Mental Health Nurse – Chiromo Hospital Group
Hours of work per week–48hrs
Chiromo Hospital Group
Nairobi.

Roles and responsibilities:

 Ensuring correct administration of medications, including injections, and monitoring the results of
treatments
 Responding to distressed patients in a non-threatening manner and attempting to understand the
source of their discomfort
 Helping patients manage their emotions through de-escalation techniques
 Preparing and participating in group or one on one therapy sessions, both individually and with
other health professionals
 Assessing and talking to patients about their problems and discussing the best way to plan and
deliver their care
 Providing evidence based individual therapy, such as cognitive behaviour therapy for depression
and anxiety
 Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features
 Restraining, consoling and sometimes medicating highly unsettled mentally ill patients
 Conducting targeted psychoeducation within families and ensuring families understand the nature
of patient’s mental conditions and the treatment regimen suitable for the patient.
 Recording patient’s health journey and reporting on notable alterations
 Assisting patients in physical care and encouraging self-dependency among patients
March 2019 to September 2020
Registered Nurse – Surgical ward.
Hours of work per week 40
Kenyatta National Hospital
Nairobi.

Skills and responsibilities

 Through effective patient communication skills, I was able to develop the special patient rapport
required to care for chronic and critically ill patients.
 Cared and assessed patient with wounds, ostomies and other skin issues.
 Checked patients skin for preventing pressure ulcers, applied medicated salves and gave them
other treatments for the existing wounds.
 Assisted doctors in dressing the wound and applied wound vac.
 Ensured that patient’s needs are met in accordance with the standards of medical practice.
 Educated patients and families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
 Maintained patient charts and confidential files.
 Educate patients regarding their medications, procedures, treatments, additionally provide pre-
operative, and inter operative and post operative health education and care.
 Care of new born babies both term and preterm babies till safe discharge, this include nursing
care and procedures like canulation, giving I.V fluids and treatment, pre and post operative care,
fixing nasal gastric feeding tubes, collection of specimen like stool and urine, cord care, vital signs
observations, phototherapy and proper documentation.
 Assessing unstable patients and transferring them to the I.C.U appropriately and receiving stable
patients from the I.C.U
 Planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating individualized nursing care plans.

April 2016 to February 2019

Registered Nurse In charge.
Hours of work per week 48
Korakora Health Center
Garissa County Government
Garissa.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Trained and supervised community health volunteers on malnutrition management, importance of

immunization and skilled deliveries at the hospital.
 Supervised, coordinated and assigned duties to fellow staff members in the facility.
 Compiled monthly reports and updated weekly immunization records.
 Organized outreach programs in collaboration with other NGO’s advocating on nutrition and
skilled deliveries at health facilities.
 Planned, procured, payed salaries and managed the health center resources as per the annual
work plan.
 Provided excellent women’s health teaching and health education, which is culturally sensitive
and tailored to each individual woman.
 Admitted, transferred and discharged clients.
 Performed patient’s physicals, comparing and contrasting results with the established histories
and medical records in order to provide proper diagnosis and facilitate appropriate treatment.
  Teamed with nutritionist to provide comprehensive patient care, referrals and high-risk
management in malnourished children and women.
 Assessed patients in order to prescribe medications within all established regulations, standards
and protocol.
 Maintained documentation including medical records as a means of continuing patient treatment.
 Managed inpatient ante partum and post partum patients including supervising and performing
deliveries in a high volume setting.
 Provided adolescent reproductive health care services at various high schools.
 Provided breastfeeding and awareness education to new mothers
 Documented and communicated to appropriate community health volunteer’s patient’s condition,
treatment progress and other pertinent information relative to maternal/ fetal / newborn status.

June 2014 to March 2016

Registered Nurse/ Counselor
Hours of work per week 40
Dove International Training, Treatment and Rehabilitation Center.
Nairobi – Kikuyu.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Counseled clients on the effects of substance abuse and chemical dependency to the general
well being of an individual.
 Coordinated and transported patients to outside medical treatment facilities.
 Administration of prescribed drugs and treatment including I.V drugs administration and inhaled
medications.
 Taught prevention of diseases, health education, drugs and substance abuse education, sex
education and nutrition.
 Performed daily health assessment to evaluate patient’s physical, mental and emotional status.
 Completed initial medical and nutrition assessment, chemical dependency and suicide history.
 Collected and prepared specimen for the laboratory.
 Maintained accurate documentation, observation and communicated mental or physical status of
the patients/clients to physician

Date March 2013 to May 2014

Registered Nurse /Midwife
Hours of work per week 40
MT. Sinai Hospital
Nairobi -Rongai.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Provided comprehensive patient care such as bathing, wound dressing, feeding, lifting,
transferring and providing medication to all patients.
 Implementing and evaluating individual treatment plans for patients with specific conditions as
prescribed by the physicians.
 Supervising incentive staff working in various departments within the facility.
 Ensured that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures were properly
carried out and documented in the patient’s charts.
 Performed charge nurse duties as needed.
 Escorting patients to other referral hospitals when necessary.
 Identified and managed as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk of developing long term
conditions
 Compiled and sub mitted monthly reports as required.
  Ensured that all admissions, discharges, transfers and deaths were properly recorded as they
occurred.
 Assisting the Doctors organize for adequate clinic coverage through outreach programmes.
 Carried out any other duties as assigned by my immediate supervisor.

July 2012 to January 2013

Registered Clinic Nurse
Hours of work per week 48
St. Josephs Nursing Home
Molo.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Collected, critically analyzed and interpreted patient’s health care data and information.
 Provided pre-operative and post-operative education to patients and their families.
 Performed instrument sterilization and cleaning using autoclaves and cidex.
 Developed patient care and treatment plans including diagnoses, assessment, implementation
and implementation.
 Assumed charge nurse duties during night shifts and charge as assigned.
 Initiated I.V therapy treatments, medications administration and wound care.
 Educated patients and their families on disease process, medical surgical procedures and broad
aspects of therapeutic regimes to include medication and pain management techniques.

August 2011 to June 2012

Registered Nurse / midwife
Hours of work per week 48
Nairobi Outpatient Center
Nairobi.

Skills and responsibilities:

 Collaborated daily with physicians and health care team to achieve optimum care during ward
rounds.
 Documenting the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient
outcomes and selected nursing interventions.
 Through effective patient communication skills, I was able to develop the special patient rapport
required to care for chronic and critically ill patients.
 Educate patients regarding their medications, procedures, treatments, additionally provide pre-
operative, and inter operative and post operative health education and care
 Provided comprehensive patient care such as bathing, wound dressing, feeding, lifting,
transferring and providing medication to all patients.
 Implementing and evaluating individual treatment plans for patients with specific conditions as
prescribed by the physicians.
 Supervising incentive staff working in various departments within the facility.
  Ensured that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures were properly
carried out and documented in the patient’s charts.
 Performed charge nurse duties as needed.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND:

September 2007 to March 2011

Diploma: K.R.C.H.N Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing.
Kenya Medical training College
Machakos.
Kenya.
January 2003 to November 2006
K.C.S.E Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
Kisii High School
Kisii.
January 1995 to November 2002
K.C.P.E Kenya Certificate of Primary Education
Molo Academy Primary School
Molo- Nakuru
Licensure & Certificates
RN License: Nursing council of Kenya.
License number 206467
Expiry October March 2023
Key competencies and Skills:
 Basic Life Support
 Advanced Trauma Life Support
 Emergency Obstetrics and neonatal care.
 Wound care management.
 Chemical dependency and drug addiction counseling
 Good Clinical Practice E6 (R2).
 Research Ethics Evaluation

ADITIONAL INFORMATION
 I have an advanced proficiency in computer applications.
 I have a certificate in chemical dependency and addiction psychology counseling.
 I enjoy travelling and meeting people from different cultures

REFFEREES:
DR Joash Auka
Medical radiologist and Lecturer
Kenya Medical training College
P.O BOX 30026 – 0010
Nairobi
Email: [email protected]
Cell: +254721265099
MRS Julita Mwasi
Senior Nursing Officer
Kenyatta National Hospital- prime care centre
P.O BOX 20273-00200
Nairobi
 Email: [email protected]
Cell +254722757748
MRS. Shilla Kagia
Matron -Pediatrics
Mp Shah Hospital
P.O BOX 14497-00800
Nairobi – Westland’s
Email:[email protected]
Cell: +254727912459