Meenu K Shaji
Perioperative Registered Nurse
Aberdeen
Summary
Dedicated perioperative nurse with over four years of experience delivering compassionate, high-quality perioperative and post-operative care. Adept at medication administration, patient education, and multidisciplinary teamwork. Committed to maintaining accurate records, ensuring patient safety, and mentoring new nurses in best practices. Strong ability to work in high-pressure environments with excellent time management and attention to detail.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Perioperative Nurse
Woodend Hospital, Orthopedic Theatre, NHS Grampian
12.2024 - Current
- Deliver high-quality perioperative care, ensuring patient safety and dignity.
- Assist as a surgical scrub nurse in minor orthopedic procedures, ensuring sterile field maintenance and adherence to aseptic techniques.
- Provide immediate post-operative recovery care for orthopedic surgical patients, focusing on pain management, wound monitoring, and patient stabilization.
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care strategies in surgical settings.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate effective surgical treatments.
- Administer medications following NHS Grampian policies and legal requirements.
- Conduct routine checks on surgical and therapeutic equipment, ensuring compliance.
- Support patient recovery, pain management, and emotional reassurance post-surgery.
- Educate patients and families on post-operative care and discharge instructions.
Perioperative Nurse
Churchill Theatres, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12.2020 - 12.2024
- Worked as aneasthetic nurse, preparing patients for surgery and ensuring smooth induction and monitoring of anesthesia as well as recovery nurse helping patients to recover from minor and major surgical procedures
- Provided immediate post-operative care in the recovery unit, focusing on airway management, pain relief, and patient stabilization.
- Worked in high-dependency unit, monitoring critical patients post-surgery and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to optimize recovery.
- Monitored vital signs, administered intravenous fluids, and adjusted pain relief protocols.
- Provided compassionate bedside care, easing patient anxiety and concerns.
- Collaborated with physiotherapists and occupational therapists for comprehensive recovery.
- Oversaw blood and fluid transfusions post-surgery.
- Supervised and mentored new nurses, fostering excellence in patient care.
- Worked as anesthetics and high dependancy unit recovery nurse for multi-speciality surgeries, including urology, ophthalmology, hepatobiliary, gynecology, maxillofacial, lower GI surgeries, transplant surgeries.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Vijay Marie College of Nursing
Hyderabad, India12.2018
Skills
- Perioperative and post-operative patient care
- Aseptic technique and infection control
- Surgical equipment handling and compliance
- Tracheostomy care
- Medication and IV administration
- Pain management
- Advanced lifesaving procedures
- Patient monitoring and stabilization
- Patient-centered care and comfort
- Health education and illness prevention
- Discharge and postoperative care guidance
- Accurate record-keeping and data confidentiality
- Multidisciplinary collaboration and teamwork
- Critical thinking and clinical judgement
- Time management and organization
- Professionalism
Timeline
Perioperative Nurse
Woodend Hospital, Orthopedic Theatre, NHS Grampian
12.2024 - Current
Perioperative Nurse
Churchill Theatres, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12.2020 - 12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Vijay Marie College of Nursing
Certifications & Professional Training
- Registered Nurse & Midwife License -Telangana State Nurses & Midwives Council, India
- Basic Life Support Training – NHS Grampian
- Perioperative Nursing Induction Course – Oxford University Hospital
- High flow oxygen therapy training [AIRVO, optiflow THRIVE]- Oxford university hospital
- Nasogastric tube management- Oxford University Hospital
- Diabetic care management- Oxford University Hospital
- Intravenour Insulin therapy treatment- Oxford University Hospital
- Transplant patient recovery management- Oxford University Hospital
- Difficult Airway Management – Oxford University Hospital
- Tracheostomy Management – Oxford University Hospital