Xhanti Siganga
Professional Nurse
Riyadh
Summary
Professional nurse known for delivering exceptional patient care and fostering collaborative team environments. Strong skills in clinical assessments, patient education, and emergency response. Reliable and adaptable, consistently meeting patient needs and contributing positively to healthcare outcomes. Demonstrates empathy, effective communication, and commitment to continuous learning.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Professional Nurse, Surgical Ward
King Abdulaziz Medical City - National Guard
Mthatha
10.2024 - Current
- Improved patient outcomes by developing and implementing individualized care plans.
- Maintained strict adherence to regulatory guidelines while performing nursing duties, ensuring compliance with all applicable standards.
- Reduced readmission rates by providing thorough discharge education and follow-up support.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Conveyed treatment options, diagnosis information and home care techniques to patients and caregivers to continue care consistency.
- Ensuring that aseptic techniques are well practiced when dealing with each patient.
- Monitoring patients’ post-surgery for any possible complications that may arise such as hemorrhagic shock, anaphylactic shock and hypoglycemia etc.
- Ensuring patients are well prepared for surgery and informed consent is legible before a patient goes in an operating theatre.
Professional Nurse, Surgical Ward
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
Mthatha
06.2022 - 08.2024
- Delegate duties to staff members and supervise delegated duties.
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care plans in consultation with relevant healthcare professionals.
- Stock counting (medication, injections) and verify if stock is enough for the day.
- Counting, safe keeping and ordering of schedule 5&6 drugs in the unit.
- Every day implementation of Batho Pele principles when dealing with patients.
- Ensuring that patients receive right medication at a right time, given the right doses, using the right route of administration and recording of the duties done.
- Teach and mentor new nursing and non-nursing staff that are allocated in my department.
- Inserting of catheters and inserting intravenous lines.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
- Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
Registered Nurse, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
Mthatha
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Conducted thorough assessments of patients'' medical histories, identifying potential risk factors that may impact pregnancy outcomes.
- Prepared patients for diagnostic tests such as ultrasounds or fetal heart rate monitoring to evaluate maternal-fetal well-being accurately.
- Reduced complications in high-risk pregnancies through careful monitoring and collaboration with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Remained current on emerging trends in obstetrics and gynecology through continuing education opportunities, implementing new practices when appropriate for enhanced patient care.
- Promoted a safe birthing environment by maintaining clean facilities, sterilizing instruments, and adhering to infection control protocols.
- Served as a mentor for new nursing staff members by sharing knowledge about obstetrics/gynecology best practices and guiding them in developing essential clinical skills.
- Conducted comprehensive physical assessments and assisted with pain management.
Registered Nurse, Maternity and Neonatal Ward
Dr Malizo Mpehle Hospital
Mthatha
02.2016 - 02.2021
- Monitoring of feto-maternal wellbeing antepartum and intrapartum and monitoring of mother and baby postpartum.
- Conduct incident investigation, prepare incident report and report to the supervisor.
- Ensured integrated TB, HIV and Covid-19 screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and continuity of care.
- Teach and mentor new nursing and non-nursing staff that are allocated in my department.
- Reporting of the data from daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly to monitor progress.
- Leading the whole team in working towards improving the standard people living with TB/HIV and other chronic illnesses through testing, initiating and retention of those clients on treatment.
- Ensuring that used medical and surgical instruments such as dressing packs, evacuation and drainage pack, lumber puncture trays and delivery packs are properly sterilized for each procedure done to each patient.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing -
Walter Sisulu University
Eastern Cape, South Africa 01.2010 - 09.2015
Grade 12 -
Dalindyebo Senior Secondary School
Eastern Cape 01.2009 - 12.2009
Skills
- Health promotion
- Quality improvement
- Compassionate care
- Clinical judgment
- Public health awareness
- Medication and IV administration
- Wound care
- Newborn care
- Intravenous therapy
- Intake and discharge
- Collecting vitals
- Nursing staff leadership
Timeline
Professional Nurse, Surgical Ward
King Abdulaziz Medical City - National Guard
10.2024 - Current
Professional Nurse, Surgical Ward
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
06.2022 - 08.2024
Registered Nurse, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
03.2021 - 02.2022
Registered Nurse, Maternity and Neonatal Ward
Dr Malizo Mpehle Hospital
02.2016 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Nursing -
Walter Sisulu University
01.2010 - 09.2015
Grade 12 -
Dalindyebo Senior Secondary School
01.2009 - 12.2009
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