Karin Louwrens

• Head of Nursing for 6 Private Health Care Facilities.
• Overseeing all nursing within the Health Care Facilities.
• Managing Quality of Nursing Care according to best practice principles.
• Write procedures and protocols for Nursing within the company
• Maintaining excellence in Nursing Care, identifying training needs and by planning training to ensure the competence of nursing staff.
• Maintaining a therapeutic environment, ensuring happiness among all resident and satisfaction and reassurance to families.
• Early identification of risks and early management to resolve them speedily and at the lowest level.

Key Performance Indicators for the position:

1. Staffing and Staff Management

2. Training

3. Admissions and Discharges

4. Resident and Family interaction

5. Village Residents and Services offered.

6. Nursing and Care

7. Risk Management and Emergencies

8. Administration, Reporting and Documentation

9. Overall Management of the Nursing at the Healthcare Facility

10. Financial and Stock Control Management

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• Staff management (full spectrum), and rostering management.
• Visiting facilities weekly to ensure the provision of care at the highest level and compliance.

Third Contract at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre.

Same Unit D4 VIP, Nursing the members of the Royal Family and international dignitaries.

• Registered Nurse in Labour Ward, Post Natal Ward, Medical and Surgical Ward.
• Managed patient care in 30 bedded ward.
• Responsible for total patient care of allocated patients.
• Active member of the multidisciplinary health care team.
• Responsible for all relevant nursing documentation related to nursing care and procedures.
• Maintained positive and professional interpersonal relationships with patients and their families, co-workers and other members of the healthcare team.
• Active in patient education on health care needs as required.

Returned to Saudi Arabia.

Same position as previously noted.

To same Unit D4 VIP.

Nursed the Royal Family and international dignitaries

• Managed patient care on D4, the VIP Unit of King Faisal Hospital.
• King Faisal was a 985 bed tertiary referral based hospital with 11 000 employees from 63 different nationalities.
• This unit included all disciplines of nursing from geriatrics to maternity and neonatal care.
• Chairperson of the Unit Based Council.
• Active team member in Hospital obtaining MAGNET Accreditation Status.
• Acted as the Resource Nurse and Mentor in the Maternity Area, mentoring and cross-training Registered Nurses from other countries, who had not previously worked in a maternity (post natal) area or with neonates.
• Development, implementation and evaluation of unit activities.
• Participation in training and development
• Followed all hospital related policies and procedures.
• Performed other related duties as assigned
• Responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care utilizing the nursing process and meeting the established evaluation and re-evaluation.
• Provided education to patients as needed, to promote health on a primary, secondary and tertiary level.

• Medical Aid Case Management of private patients within a government hospital.
• Obtaining authorization from the Medical Aids, managed length of stay, negotiated for additional stay according to the patient's medical needs.

• Performed all managerial functions in the unit.
• The unit was run as a cost centre, therefore I managed the staffing, stock, equipment.
• Maintaining of standards to ensure policies and procedures are upheld.
• Managing the educational needs of the staff.
• Conducting staff appraisals
• Conflict Management
• Maintaining patient satisfaction
• Management of patient complaints and resolution thereof and prevention of reoccurrences.
• Maintaining of good interpersonal relations with members of the health care team and other departments in the hospital

• Managerial functions within the Government Hospital
• Covered in the position of Nursing Services Manager in periods as needed.
• Served on the committee for hospital's Procurement Department.
• Managed Stock Control in the hospital.
• Served on the Advisory Committee for the Cape Area for the drawing up of Standard Care Plans for all hospital in the Cape Town area.
• Managed the Nursing Documentation and Chart Audits, to evaluate nursing care and standards.

• All Registered Nurse duties, in Medical, Surgical, Pediatrics, Maternity and Casualty Wards.
• On rotational basis.

Three and a half years at Nursing Training College.

Qualified as Registered Nurse and Midwife.