CV Profile No.10855

Experience in the following industries :

• Health, pharmacy, hospitals, medical equipment
• Research and development

Professional experience

• Registered nurse
• Mediclinic Windhoek
• 08.2009 - 08.2012
• • Delivering of comprehensive patient care by assessing, diagnosing, prescribing, • providing, implementing and evaluation of a nursing regime to meet the health needs of patients. • Providing and ensuring a safe nursing care environment • Providing health education and counselling to patient and families • Ensuring that risk Management of the nursing unit is maintained as delegated to by the Unit Manager. • Ensuring that learners are clinically supported and accompanied to complete their course-specific learning objectives. • Ensuring that patients’ receive quality nursing care though continuously improving services. • Provision of pre and posttest HIV counselling and treatment adherence counselling.

• Senior registered nurse
• Mediclinic Windhoek
• 09.2012 - 05.2016
• • Ensuring that quality management practices are maintained within nursing unit as delegated to by the Unit Manager. • Responsible for people Management practices within nursing unit maintained as delegated to by the Unit Manager. • Ensuring financial Controls are maintained within nursing unit as delegated to by the Unit Manager. • Ensuring that risk Management of the nursing unit is maintained as delegated to by the Unit Manager. • Ensuring that learners are clinically supported and accompanied to complete their course-specific learning objectives. • Ensuring that patients’ receive quality nursing care though continuously improving • services. • Provision of pre and post test HIV counseling and treatment adherence counselling

• Infection Prevention and Control manager
• Mediclinic Windhoek
• 06.2016 - 11.2017
• • Identifying gaps in service delivery related to infection prevention and control and minimizing the gaps using Quality Improvement methods (Model for Improvement). • In collaboration with Patient Safety Officer, leading the development, implementation and monitoring of quality and performance improvement tools in the hospital. • Conducting investigations on possible causes of Healthcare Associated Infections and using quality improvement methods to improve healthcare processes. • Conducting surveillance for healthcare-associated infections and compiling monthly reports. • Providing technical support on outbreak investigation and management. • Capacity building on IPC to healthcare workers. • Ensuring that relevant Mediclinic hospital policies on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) are implemented, reviewed, updated and distributed. • Chairing the Infection Prevention and Control committee, ensuring that decisions regarding IPC related matters are implemented as discussed in the meetings. • Ensuring that IPC principles are adhered to during the provision of healthcare services. • Ensuring healthcare facility environmental cleaning is effective and proper use of disinfection. • Ensuring that local, national or international best-practice guidelines for prevention of infection transmission in clinical care are implemented.

• Quality Improvement advisor
• EnCompass LLC
• Since 12.2017
• • Reports to the clinical technical director • Works with the senior team to ensures that the program meets national and PEPFAR standards for VMMC services • Works with the senior team to ensures that the program meets national and PEPFAR standards for VMMC services • Provides technical support to facility teams in: development of improvement aims, measures, and changes to achieve the aims; collection, analysis and review of data to guide ongoing testing of change; and presentation of results • Participates in the development of quality improvement training and learning sessions materials and in conducting these events • Follows developments in best practices in the area of HIV/AIDS Prevention, including VMMC and advise project leadership, partners, and teams on trends and developments in the area • Provides inputs to quarterly dashboards and semi-annual progress reports to USAID • Travels to sites to oversee the improvement work and to provide technical assistance to coaches and teams • Provides technical support to facility teams in: development of improvement aims, disposal of single use surgical instruments