Grainne McCarthy's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Clinical Project Lead @ The world's first mobile health service: consultations with top doctors, cutting-edge monitoring, and clinical records; all in your pocket. By harnessing the connectivity of mobile applications and devices, we have launched a global health service that aims to simplify access for people everywhere. We have a determined start-up mentality, creating many of our own products with cutting edge technologies. We have assembled a fun entrepreneurial team with a track record of building big ventures, and are backed by an exceptional global investment partner. "Set to revolutionise the healthcare system and eradicate waiting lists for subscribers" - THE TELEGRAPH "What if talking to your GP was as easy as ordering a cab on your smartphone?" BBC NEWS "Revolutionary" - THE EVENING STANDARD ' "The world's simplest virtual health service, right from the palm of your hand." - THE HUFFINGTON POST See more at: http://www.babylonhealth.com/ From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Senior Staff Nurse @ Grainne’s role principally focused on the care and management of patient’s on an acute sixteen bedded colorectal gastroenterology unit. Main duties included: • Manage a case load of patients providing the highest standard of care based on evidence based practice. • Promote delivery of care based on current evidence, best practice and validated research where available. • Outstanding communicator and collaborator ensuring professional relationships with the multidisciplinary team and ensuring appropriate and timely referrals are initiated • Deputising for the senior sister when required, adapting to this leading and managerial role when needed. • Delegating duties appropriately with follow up of these delegations, mentoring and supervising junior staff, bank staff and agency staff. • Prioritising self and staff work load to maintain safety. • Educating patient’s in the care of their stomas, their TPN/PN regimes, their medication, their wounds, their pain management and all other aspects of their care in a friendly and responsible manner • Recognise importance of people’s rights in accordance within legislation, policies and procedures. • Responsible for developing and sustaining own knowledge clinical skills and professional awareness. • Being able to deal with and manage patient’s from other specialties and adapt expertise as required. • Role of Infection Control link nurse and is auditing on a monthly basis to ensure the unit continues to keep a high standard of hygiene. This role includes the education of staff in the management of infectious patient’s and ensuring continuous compliance with infection control policies and reviewing statistics on a quarterly year basis and liaising minutes of the meetings to ward manager and team. • Promotes a safe, pleasant and supportive working environment. • Identify potential risks for staff, clients and visitors and adheres to relevant incident reporting with follow up of same. From May 2013 to May 2014 (1 year 1 month) Flight Nurse @ A position here as a flight nurse was an enjoyable and challenging role. The job included seeing the patient prior to a planned flight assessing the said patient, then collecting the patient and flying the patient back to their home country following treatment in London. This position challenged the nurse to be able to work independently and the need to make confident competent decisions for the patient’s care. Flying mainly to the Middle East it also gave an insight to the culture of the Arab patient. From June 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 8 months) Staff Nurse @ Following a move from Ireland to London, Grainne’s initial job was as a staff nurse on an acute colorectal hepatobillary and gastroenterology ward. It opened her eyes to the world of private healthcare after coming from public healthcare in Ireland. Throughout the thirteen months that were spent there Grainne saw many changes including the shift into general medicine that brought with it its own challenges and this was taken as educational opportunity to learn more about the world of medicine vs surgical care. Working with the top consultants in their field, this employment was very difficult to leave and was only done so following the decision to travel for three months. From October 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 2 months) Staff Nurse @ Following internship and achieving an honours degree in nursing Grainne was one of fifteen out of sixty five nurses who obtained a post following her graduation in her training hospital. Grainne was placed on the graduate programme run in SVUH which included six months medical placement and six months surgical placement. This was the beginning of a career during which she continued her professional development becoming competent with tracheostomy care and wound care. Working on a endocrinology and general medicine ward Grainne was one of the first nurses to work on the medical observation unit which became a step down for intensive care patients receiving further treatment in non-invasive ventilation and the management of uncontrolled epilepsy and other severe medical conditions. Following the six month medical placement Grainne went to a surgical unit and at the time of commencing this placement, the surgical observation unit was opening, allowing her to assist other staff with education on how observation tools within the unit worked. Grainne also wrote an article on the working life of a nurse that was publish in SVUH in-house magazine. From September 2010 to October 2011 (1 year 2 months) Bachelor of Science (BSc), General Nursing, Honours @ University College Dublin From 2006 to 2010 Grainne McCarthy is skilled in: Nursing, Project Management, Project Planning, Surgical Nursing, Healthcare Information Technology, Team Leadership, Educational Leadership, Communication Skills, Safeguarding Adults, Safeguarding Children, Healthcare, Wound Care, Treatment, Surgery, Emergency Medicine