Lwazi Bhuza
South Africa
Summary
To render services where required in a challenging and reputable organization, to expand skills and knowledge, to fully utilize acquired trainings and skills while making a significant contribution to the success of the company, promote and deliver professional help, knowledge of computer literate MS (word, outlook, PowerPoint and excel) and management of emergencies with excellence in mind.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Roving Professional Nurse
The Aurum Institute
4 2024 - Current
- Lead and supervise Program Professional Nurses and Enrolled Nurses
- Strategize for TB Mentoring requirements
- Facilitate training sessions related to TB
- Conduct facility evaluations and create Quality Improvement Plans
- Support technicalities of the Program, such as TB Mortality Audits and Clinical Audits
- Collaborate extensively with Program and DOH staff for TB diagnostics and TPT Program
- Offer mentoring and technical guidance for TB Program at health facility levels
- Provide on-site support during patient visits
- Supervise FAST & LF- LAM test implementations
- Conduct training needs assessments
- Collaborate with health facility management teams
- Foster linkages between health facilities and community institutions
- Participate in staff recruitment and training
- Mentor and support program staff
- Pursue capacity building through relevant training
- Regularly review and cross-check data sources, ensuring accuracy and completeness of information before integrating into official reports
- Ensure that all reports adhere to the organization's quality standards and meet the set guidelines and criteria
- Adhere to established timelines for report generation, review, and finalisation
- Periodically review and suggest improvements to the report generation and verification process, aiming for increased efficiency and accuracy
- Attending DOH sub-district performance review meetings
- Attending DOH District quarterly review meetings
- Ensuring that Rif Alerts are actioned by facilities
- Weekly district meetings and report presentation.
Professional Nurse
Butterworth hospital
01.2023 - 03.2024
- Taking care of foreseeable emergencies
- Identifying life-threatening problems and prioritizing the urgency of care
- Carrying out resuscitative measures and other treatment
- Wound care, medication administration, blood transfusion
- Emergency triage and treatment
- To consult with other members of the multidisciplinary team to decide on the best treatment plan for patients
- Control and ordering of schedule 5 and 6 drugs
- Drug storage and cold chain monitoring
- Collection of laboratory specimens
- Performing phlebotomy procedures
- Insertion of peripheral IV lines and administration of IV drugs
- Team leading role.
Professional Nurse
Soweto clinic
03.2019 - 12.2022
- Rendering comprehensive primary health care and management of medical emergencies
- Contribute to holistic care to clients
- To perform physical examinations and diagnostic tests
- To consult with other members of the multidisciplinary team to decide on the best treatment plan for my patients
- Rendering comprehensive Adult Primary Care to adults
- Comprehensive HIV and Aids care and support, HIV counselling, HIV testing, initiation on ART treatment as well as screening for other chronic diseases like TB, HPT, DM and other minor ailments
- Experience in covid 19 and its management according to SA nursing act and all other related legislation as well as knowledge of health safety protocols
- Record keeping as well as statistic and overseeing certain programmes
- Rendering Family Planning, STI screening and management thereof in accordance with National Guidelines
- Able to supervise outreach team
- Promotion of Health and wellbeing
- Carrying out administrative duties and in charge of ideal clinic programmes
- Experience of working with adolescents in the health sector through AYFS programmes
- Initiation of HIV negative clients on prep and maintenance thereof.
TB Nurse
Soweto Clinic
01.2019
- Initiate DS-TB on treatment
- Register patients who are diagnosed with TB in the TB register
- Sputum collection for monitoring and conversion
- Collection baseline sputum, Direct and Culture, LPA for DR-TB
- Collection of Baseline bloods
- Do VCT, ECG and refer for X-ray
- Hospital referral for DR-TB
- Monitor adverse drug reactions accordingly and reporting
- Contact tracing of close contacts
- To provide continuous care to all DS-TB
- Supervise and monitor capturing of TB data in the information by data capture
- Support clinic with infection prevention and control activities
- Participate in district quarterly TB and data reviews.
Professional Nurse
Unjani clinic
03.2021
- Rendering comprehensive adult primary care
- Rendering Integrated Management of Childhood illness
- Provision of antenatal care services
- TB and HIV management including initiation of IPT
- Chronic disease monitoring
- Papsmears
- HIV counselling and testing
- Drug test
- To perform physical examinations and diagnostic tests
- Rendering Family Planning, STI screening and management therefore in accordance with National Guidelines
- Promotion of Health and wellbeing.
Education
Project Management for Development Professionals -
Humentum (PM4NGOs)
PG Diploma in HIV/Aids Management (in Progress) -
University of Fort Hare
East London, South AfricaNIMART certificate - undefined
Aquah Training School
Dispensing certificate - undefined
University of Free State
Dealing with child sexual abuse in South Africa certificate - undefined
MP Consulting
Good Clinical Practice certificate - undefined
NIDA clinical training
Emergency Triage assessment and treatment (ETAT) certificate - undefined
EC Department of health
Basic HIV Course for Health Care Professionals - undefined
NDOH Knowledge Hub
Clinical Management of PrEP certificate -
Www.myprep.co.za
04.2001 - 04.2020
Adult Primary Care (APC) certificate - undefined
NDOH Knowledge Hub
Bachelor of Nursing Science - Bcur - undefined
Nelson Mandela University
Grade 12 - undefined
Nozuko s.s.s
Skills
Good interpersonal skills
Oral and written communication skills
Work well under pressure and effective
Professionalism and strong work ethics
Willingness to learn
Record keeping
Computer literacy
Client focused
Non-judgmental, trustworthy and empathetic personality
Planning skills
Target driven and able to lead a team
Always demonstrate a strong professional attitude and behaviour
Sanc no
16285389
Criminal record
CLEAR
License code
8
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 05/06/94
References
- Ms. A Mlatsha, Nelson Mandela University, 0788040099
- Mrs Qwabe, Butterworth casualty OM, 0474019008
- Mrs. N Nyipi, Soweto clinic OM, 0414595457/0607224727
- Sanda Ntlantsana, Unjani clinic, 0839529333
- Ms Z Notununu, District manager (Aurum institute), 0680126149/0105901300
Languages
Isixhosa
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Professional Nurse
Butterworth hospital
01.2023 - 03.2024
Professional Nurse
Unjani clinic
03.2021
Professional Nurse
Soweto clinic
03.2019 - 12.2022
TB Nurse
Soweto Clinic
01.2019
Clinical Management of PrEP certificate -
Www.myprep.co.za
04.2001 - 04.2020
Roving Professional Nurse
The Aurum Institute
4 2024 - Current
Project Management for Development Professionals -
Humentum (PM4NGOs)
PG Diploma in HIV/Aids Management (in Progress) -
University of Fort Hare
NIMART certificate - undefined
Aquah Training School
Dispensing certificate - undefined
University of Free State
Dealing with child sexual abuse in South Africa certificate - undefined
MP Consulting
Good Clinical Practice certificate - undefined
NIDA clinical training
Emergency Triage assessment and treatment (ETAT) certificate - undefined
EC Department of health
Basic HIV Course for Health Care Professionals - undefined
NDOH Knowledge Hub
Adult Primary Care (APC) certificate - undefined
NDOH Knowledge Hub
Bachelor of Nursing Science - Bcur - undefined
Nelson Mandela University
Grade 12 - undefined
Nozuko s.s.s
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