CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details
NAME: MENSAH – BONSU DANIEL
NATIONALITY: GHANAIAN
ADDRESS: D1 Green ST A1-0005-9460
DATE OF BIRTH: 11TH OCTOBER,1992
TELEPHONE: +233549226546 / +233555645910
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH AND ASANTE TWI
SEX: MALE
RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY
PROFESSION: MENTAL HEALTH NURSE

Career Objective
I am highly passionate and motivated to use the knowledge and skills acquired from my
education to make impact and life of other. Also focusing more on the development and
promotion of nursing with special emphasis on communities with special needs.

KEY SKILLS, COMPETENCE AND QUALITIES

 Team player and result oriented within work environment.
 Honest, reliable, compassionate, and efficient in all assign duties.
 Ability to communicate well with excellent inter-personal skills.
 Able to work under pressure with less supervision
 Speak fluently in English and Asante Twi

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Institution Qualification year
Nurses Training college, Pantang Accra Diploma 2014 – 2017
SDA Senior High School Kenyasi – Kumasi WASSCE 2008 - 2013
Supreme El-Shaddai Preparatory JHS BECE 2005 – 2008

WORKING EXPERIENCE
Organization Title Duration / Period
Nyinahin Government Hospital Staff Nurse 1st September, 2022 to date

Duties
To provide professional nursing care to patients by contributing to assessment planning,
implementation and evaluation of patient care to improve health outcomes in following
ways;
 Give bed bath to very ill patients and prevention of pressure sores
 Maintain patients personal hygiene
 Participate in ward rounds.
 Take, chart vital signs and serve medications.
 Admitting, discharging and documenting patients’ data.
 Serve and feed patients
 Care for the dead and management of bereavement
  Carry out patient’s teaching and write reports.
 Assign and supervise auxiliary and utility staff.
 Organize and conduct home visit.
 Organize and conduct health promotion programs.
 Organize screening exercise for rounded-up patients.
 Counsel patients and relatives.
 Evaluate care programs of clients.
 Monitor the effects of psychotropic medication and other treatments.
 Organize patient for medical student clerkship and practical work
 Perform other official duties assigned by ward manager / unit in-charge trace
defaulters.
 Attends to psychiatric emergencies in the community.
Organization Title Duration / Period
Phoenix Health Care Health Care Assistant (Part-time) 1 Year

Organization Title Duration / Period

St Patrick’s Hospital Offinso – Ashanti Ghana Rotation Nurse April, 2018 to April 2019

Duties (Medical Ward)

 Administering of oral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous medications.
 Updating and maintain of all digital records of clients.
 Checking and recording of vital signs, weight and changes in medical record.
 Preparing examination rooms prior to patients.
 Administering of oxygen to patients where necessary.

Duties (Public health unit)

 Immunization of babies
 Child and environmental health education
 Educating maternal mothers about the importance of breastfeeding.
 Contraceptive method and education management.
 Educating the general populace about the importance of family planning.

Duties (Surgical ward)

 Educating patients on aseptic care of wounds
 Assisting in suturing and removal of stitches.
 Sterilization of instruments.
 Dressing and treatment of wounds aseptically.
 General pre-operative/post-operative management of surgical patients.
 Treatment and management of urethral catheters.

Duties (Pediatric ward)

 Nursing of neonates under phototherapy.
 Feeding of babies.
 Checking of vital signs.
 Tepid sponging managements amongst children on the ward.
 Children medication management.
 Bathing and dressing of baby cord.
Duties (Psychiatry unit)
 Counseling of patients and relatives.
 Assist in crisis situations intervention.
 Be part of home visit team.
 Tracing of defaulters.
 Resolve conflicts amongst patients and family.
 Assist in planning and doing follow ups of discharged patients.
 Administer medications to discharged patients.

Duties (Obstetric Ward)

 Identifying and managing sexually transmitted diseases such as moniliasis
(Candidiasis, Trichomoniasis, syphilis, HIV/AIDS etc. amongst pregnant women.
 Checking of child’s body mass index.
 Monitoring of patients pathograph
 Assisting midwives in child’s delivery.
 Managing a client with minor disorders of pregnancy including; nausea,
heartburns, constipation, backache.
 Keeping of patient’s obstetric reward.

UNIMED CLINIC AND FERTILITY CENTER AS A NURSE

Duties
 Undertake assessment, planning and implementation of intervention for
addressing patient care problems.
 Evaluate patient Reponses to interventions and modify plans as needed.
 Read reports and take note of critical cases, do chart rounds and ensure
treatment has been given
 Participate in ward round.
 Maintain a safe and therapeutic patient care environment.
 Perform other official duties assigned by the hospital manager.

LUCY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, OFANKOR – ACCRA AS NURSE)

Duties
 Advise on the promotion of health and prevention of illness, teaching patients and
their relatives where appropriate.
 Checking and documentation of patient vital signs.
 Participate in ward rounds.
 Assist with manual handling and transferring of patients in compliance with
hospital policy.
 Undertake and demonstrate nursing tasks in the best interest of patient care and
professional standards including the following;
 Washing and bathing
 Bed making
 Feeding example; oral, nasogastric and adequate nutritional intake for
patients in liaison with dietician.
 Simple and complex dressings
 Administration of drugs example; oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, rectal
and topical and monitoring of their effects.
September. 2012 – September. 2014

37 Military Hospital as Student Nurse)

Duties (Trauma Surgical Ward).
 Monitoring and documenting of patient’s vital signs; temperature, pulse,
respiration, and blood pressure.
 Cleaning and disinfection of excreta, urinals, bed pans, vomit bowls and bed
liners.
 Maintaining intake and output records.
 Dressing of wounds
 Feeding of patients
 To take patient history

Pantang Psychiatric Hospital as Student Nurse December 2014 – February. 2015

Duties.
 Assist in admitting of mentally ill patients.
 Assisting in managing patients with specific psychiatric symptoms and conditions
such as; hyperactivity, hyperactivity suicidal thoughts, drug abuse, refusal of food,
hallucinations, delusions, anxiety disorders, epilepsy, forensic disorders etc.
 Managing psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention including status
epilepticus, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, substance related
psychiatric emergencies, drug overdose, administering of patients psychotropic
medication and monitoring of its side effects.
 Informing patient’s relatives on hospital routine.

Tafo Government Hospital (Nurse June 2015 – Aug. 2015

Duties
 Tracing contracts and defaulter
 Home visits to the mentally ill patients
 Health education to the patient, relatives and the community at large.
 Facilitating the rapist like, Individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy
etc.

Ga West Municipal Hospital as Student Nurse

Duties (Medical-Surgical ward).
 Nursing of special patients including the unconscious, hepatic coma, paralyses
 Patient in a fit convulsion and febrile conditions
 Checking of complete fluid balance chart daily.
 Managing of patient with urinary disorders including catheterization and care of
catheter.

Grater Accra Regional Hospital (Student nurse

Duties (VIP Ward)
 Assessment of patient in the areas of history taking, physical assessment
(Observation, inspection, palpitation, percussion and auscultation.
 Complete and assisted bed bath
  Serving of bed pans and commodes to patient.
 Changing of patient dirty linen.
 Serving patient meals
 Feeding of patient.
Hobbies: Watching movies, listening to music and exploring tourist site.

Referees
1. Hannah Serwah Bonsu
Senior Midwife Officer
+233244817874
SDA Church
Post Office Box TA 612
Taifa – Accra

2. Adomako Daniel
Physician Assistant
+233240364816
Unimed clinic /Korlebu Teaching Hospital

3. Nelly Opoku Agyemang

Senior Staff Nurse
Nyinahin Government Hospital
+233545387455