Tusankine Simbule-Manda
Summary
Caring nursing team member with record of success in delivering treatments to all types of patients. Brings expert clinical knowledge and judgment to meet strict care standards. Partners with fellow nurses and across care teams to deliver positive patient outcomes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
22
22
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Night Superintendent
Zambia National COVID-19 center
05.2020
- Manage and supervise subordinates and the department at night
- Maintaining proper supplies of medical, surgical equipment, and personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Ensure clean and safe environment for client and staff
- Work hand in hand with Environmental health technicians (EHTs) to ensure all Infection Prevention (IP) guidelines are being implemented and followed
- Prepare daily summary reports
- Attend to emergencies.
STAFF NURSE
ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL
Winchester
09.2021 - Current
- Assess, plan, and provide skilled high-quality evidence-based nursing care for patients with palliative care needs, including terminal phase and support family prior to and immediately after death
- Anticipate and respond to changing patient need as whilst maintain their independence, privacy, and dignity
- Collaborating on terminally ill patients' care with physicians, social workers, chaplains, nursing assistants, and other stakeholders
- Preparing and adjusting patient care plans as needed
- Monitor vital signs and physical comfort levels as per requirement
- Performing prescribed treatments and administering pain management medications
- Informing physicians about changes in patients' conditions
- Providing loved ones and primary caregivers with patient care information, end-of-life education, and emotional support
- Maintaining and updating medical charts, patient files, and health records
- Notifying attending physicians, hospice staff members, and family members of patients' deaths when they occur
- Advising grieving family members on coping techniques, counseling services, and available community resources.
NURSING SISTER (SISTER-IN-CHARGE)
LEVY MWANAWASA UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL
06.2014 - 08.2021
- Manage and supervise subordinates and the department
- Maintaining proper supplies of medical and surgical equipment
- Ensure clean environment for staff and client
- Provides client education and safe in TB, (Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus) HIV/ Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Disease (AIDS) and its related illnesses
- Monitor patients' vital signs
- Work with counselors in providing pre-counseling and post-counseling test for HIV
- Perform phlebotomy on patients for biochemistry tests
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for HIV indicators according to the tools provided
- Provide adolescent health services
- Follow up TB patients and PLWHIV (people living with HIV)
- Attend in-house, district/provincial meetings and updates
- Provide PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis).
Female/Pediatric Surgical and Burns Unit
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Manage and supervise subordinates and the ward
- Maintaining proper supplies of medical and surgical equipment
- Ensure clean and safe environment for staff and client
- Clean and dress wounds/burns aseptically
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances
- Educate families on wound care
- Collect bloods and other specimens for laboratory examinations
- Provide patient care during the pre-surgical, post-operative, and recovery periods
- Administer medication and blood
- Assist physicians with examinations and daily patient reviews
- Monitor and evaluate patients’ vital signs and general condition
- Provide individualized bedside nursing care according to assessment
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessment data
- Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions
- Provides client information, education, and counseling.
Registered Nurse
Intensive Care Unit
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Manage and supervise subordinates and the ward
- Maintaining proper supplies of medical and surgical equipment
- Ensure clean and safe environment for staff and client
- Initiate emergency resuscitative measures according to resuscitation protocols
- Collect blood specimens for laboratory examinations
- Monitor and evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine Emergency intervention needs
- Administer blood and blood products
- Monitor patient’s vital signs and general condition
- Close monitoring of patient’s level of conscious using Glasgow coma scale
- Administer medications as prescribed
- Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, and transducers
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessment data
- Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests
- Conduct pulmonary assessments to identify abnormal respiratory patterns or breathing sounds
- Document patients' medical histories and assessment findings
- Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions
- Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients based on assessment data identified needs
- Assist physicians with procedures such as end tracheal intubation
- Provide/family client information, education, and counseling.
Registered Nurse
Adult Medical Ward (Female/Male)
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Conduct an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the adult or elderly patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by client facility’s policies, procedures, or protocols
- Conduct ongoing assessments as determined by the adult or elderly patient’s condition and/or the client facility’s policies, procedures, or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly
- Develop plan of care that is individualized for the adult or elderly patient reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team
- Perform appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner
- Perform therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the adult or elderly patient
- Provide individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family
- Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patient, family, and client facility staff
- Document patient assessment findings in responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution
- Initiate emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation protocols
- Manage and supervise subordinates
- Ensure the ward has enough medical supplies
- Provides client/family information, education, and counseling.
Sales Representative
IMNAH ENTERPRISES LTD
01.2006 - 01.2010
- Selling airtime stocks and services for all networks to retailers & individuals
- Stock management and reconciliation
- Sourcing and on-boarding new customers
- Banking.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Sciences
University of Zambia
Zambia 01.2015 - 11.2020
Higher National Diploma - Nursing
Lusaka Health Institute
Zambia 01.2008 - 11.2010
GCSEs - GCE “O” Level Certificate
Ibenga Girls Secondary School
Zambia 01.2001 - 12.2005
Nchanga Trust Primary School
Zambia 01.1993 - 12.2000
Skills
- Outstanding communication
- Routine investigations
- Health assessments
- Ethical decision-making
- Admission procedures
Certification
• Certificate in Voluntary Male Circumcision- Society for Family Health (2014)
• Advanced Anti -Retroviral Clinical Course Certificate- University Teaching Hospital/ Ministry of Health (2012)
• Comprehensive Pediatric HIV care certificate- Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ Lusaka Provincial Health Office (2015)
• Attended in-house training in Endoscopy (2017)
• Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment Certificate- National Council for Construction (2019)
Affiliations
- Reading
- Travelling and Socializing
- Swimming
Timeline
STAFF NURSE
ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL
09.2021 - Current
Night Superintendent
Zambia National COVID-19 center
05.2020
Female/Pediatric Surgical and Burns Unit
01.2017 - 01.2020
Registered Nurse
Intensive Care Unit
01.2016 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Sciences
University of Zambia
01.2015 - 11.2020
Registered Nurse
Adult Medical Ward (Female/Male)
01.2015 - 01.2016
NURSING SISTER (SISTER-IN-CHARGE)
LEVY MWANAWASA UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL
06.2014 - 08.2021
Higher National Diploma - Nursing
Lusaka Health Institute
01.2008 - 11.2010
Sales Representative
IMNAH ENTERPRISES LTD
01.2006 - 01.2010
GCSEs - GCE “O” Level Certificate
Ibenga Girls Secondary School
01.2001 - 12.2005
Nchanga Trust Primary School
01.1993 - 12.2000