Bárbara

Qualifications:
➢ Diploma in Nursing (2007-2010), La Laguna University
➢ Placements: I developed my work experience in a different hospital department: surgery, urology, geriatrics, maternal and child care,  postanesthetic recovery unit, primary care and psychiatry

Languages
- Spanish: mother tongue
- English: Fluent. I have lived in England for more than 4 years
- English: B1 Level Certificate (University of La Laguna, December 2011)
- English course in Malta (August 2010)

Work Experience
➢ Employer: Walking Centre Primary Care, Tenerife (Nowadays in the SNU of Los Gladiolus)
Dates: May 2020- currently working Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Assist patients than come to the A&E department of the surgery at evening and night time. Also going to the houses of bed-bound patients to evaluate and treat them there.

➢ Employer: Barts Health, London Dates: March-May 2020 Position: Occupational Health Nurse and ITU nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I worked on the direct COVID-19 line within the Trust, assessing and advising the employees on their coronavirus symptoms and PPE’s. During that period, I also worked in ICU, at Royal London Hospital with COVID-19 positive patients

➢ Employer: Domingo Ambulance and SVABarcelona (Barcelona, Spain) Dates: Temporary staffing services from June-November 2019 Position: RN
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Assist and transport patients to the hospital that their private insurance suggests, or the public hospitals if the patient is unwell. With SVA Barcelona I used to transport patients from the hospital to the airport and vice versa.

➢ Employer: Hospital Sant Pau (Barcelona, Spain) Dates: Temporary staffing services from June 2019- March 2020 Position: RN
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I have worked in A&E, ICU, ACCU, post anaesthetic recovery room, and wards.

➢ Employer: ICS, Vall d’Hebron Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) Dates: December 2018- October 2019 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I have worked in A&E, ICU, coronary care unit, post anaesthetic recovery room and wards. The supervisor will allocate you to work where is a shortage of staff, but I have mainly been in the critical care areas.

➢ Employer: Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Hospital (Tenerife, Spain) Dates: March 2018- October 2018 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I triaged patients who went to A&E, treated them and looked after them. They have different problems (respiratory, cardiovascular, bone fractures, myocardial infarctions…)

➢ Employer: Emergency NGO. Salam Center (Sudan) Dates: July 2017 - December 2017 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I supervised the activity of the ward I was working in (pre and postsurgical), as well as coordinate the admissions and discharges, and teaching local nurses.

➢ Employer: Intensive Care Unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital (NHS), (London) Dates: January 2014- June 2017  Occasionally I still do some shifts here and in ICU at Royal London Hospital Position: Band 5 specialist
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I look after patients that have undertaken cardiac/thoracic surgery, have had a myocardial infarction, respiratory failure, and oncology patients who need support following sepsis. I have also looked after a patient with ECMO and Novolung.

➢ Employer: Emergency Assessment Unit, Charing Cross Hospital, (NHS), (London) Dates: June 2013-January 2014 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I looked after patients that were already assessed in A&E and transferred to us for continuing care, observation, and specialist referrals.

➢ Employer: Jacobs Neurological Center (RAMSAY) (Sawbridgeworth, UK) Dates: November 2012- June 2013 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: I was responsible for 15 patients with neurological insults, all of them with tracheostomies, and some of them long term ventilated.

➢ Employer: Primary Care, (Tenerife) Dates: August 2012 Position: Registered nurse
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Nurse working in the emergency department
of an outpatient centre.

➢  Employer: Medical-Surgical Ward, Hospiten Sur, Tenerife Dates: November 2010 - May 2011 Position: Registered nurse June 2011- June 2012
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Caring for patients with different pathologies
and ages (urology, internal medicine, digestive, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics,
maxillofacial, geriatrics).