Ahmed Abukar Mursal Adam

Duties & Responsibilities as Staff Nurse

• Acute Adult Inpatient
• Perform admission, discharge and transfer procedures, and assist others with patient's activities and care
• Providing safety for the patient and others
• Giving and monitoring treatment and tolerating and managing disturbed behavior
• Building relationships with reassuring, listening and talking to patients
• Respect and maintain the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of the patient
• Manage the care of patients with bipolar mood disorders, OCD and other psychological issues
• Child and Adolescent Admission Department
• Dealing with the anxieties and demands of parent and helping families to deal with their child’s illness
• Coordinating and delivering of mental health care to children and their families
• Providing support while balancing the need to uphold ward structure with the need to respect children's autonomy
• Reinforcing the parent’s role
• Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) Department (Preparing and monitoring the patient during and after the procedure)
• Electro Encephalography and Sleep lap Department (Providing information and support to the patient and preparing the patient)

SPECIAL EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING

• Psychosis
• Personality disorder
• OCD
• Post-Traumatic Stress disorder
• Eating disorder
• Anxiety and Depression
• Learning and Intellectual disabilities
• Parkinsonism
• Delirium
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Bipolar Mood disorder
• Dementia
• Schizophrenia
• Attention defect hyperactivity disorder

TYPE OF EQUIPMENTS USED

• ECT
• EEG
• EKG
• MULTI-DRUG SCREENING
• SAFE MOVING AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT
• DEFIBRILLTOR
• CARDIAC MONITOR
• GLUCOMETER
• I/V CANNULA
• LARYNGOSCOPE
• SUPPLEMENTAL OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE
• Oro-pharyngeal Airways
• Stethoscope
• Suction Device
• Pulse Oximeter
• Blood pressure device etc.