1. Curriculum Vitae
RN Alphos Kaji Chuma
AHPRA Registration: NMW0000992547

2. Personal Information
Name: Kaji Alphos Chuma
DOB : 24/11/1977
Address: 6 Badham way, Ellenbrook, WA 6069
Contacts: 0402290804
Email: akchuma@yahoo.co.uk
Professional Qualifications:
Diploma in General nursingcompleted 2003
Mpilo School Of Nursing,
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Rural and Isolated Practice Health [drugs and poisons] Regulation 1996
Registered Nurse course. RIPRN
YEAR 2012 Sept -2013 Sept
Cunningham Centre, Cairns
Immunisation Provider RN for WA, NT, SA, QLD and Victoria

3. Professional History:
Role: ED and acute RN
worked as a team leader in all shifts
also worked nigh duties
Location Quairading Hospital
Dates 4 April 2016 to 10 July
Started as a 4 weeks contract, renewed several
times
Quaradingis a publichospitalin the Wheatbelt with ED, 7 acute and 6
bed sub beds with a doctor working from GP practice Monday to Friday
and Telehealth facility. I was given a 4 weeks contract initially which have
been renewed several times.
Main duties included
• triagingand other ED nursingduties,
• consultingdoctors over the phone or on Emergency Telehealth,
• transfers and escortingin ST Johns Ambulance,
• rostered on call,
• istat testing, blood specimen collection,
• resuscitationand other acute nursingduties in a regional ED
On my days off I have also done some agency shifts in St Johns of God
Midland ED and Fiona Stanley ED and medical wards.

4. Role: Community Health Nurse
Location Fregon Clinic, Nganampa Health Services
Dates 04 February 2016 to10 March 2016
Fregon is a clinic in SA run by Nganampa Health Council.
They use communicate information system and CARPA manual.
I spent 5 weeks working as part of a 4 nurses team running the clinic with a
doctor visiting every Wednesday.

 Duties included
 normal remote and isolated nursework,
 triaging,dressing,immunisation,
 retrievals,
 organising clinics for specialist visiting teams
 teaching,
 Outreach visiting to men’s business camps, giving prophylactics
antibiotics in mass for men who had sometraditional circumcision and
penis sub incision cuts.
 Education about infection control, managing complications including
anaemia,septicaemia, thrombophlebitis from infected bleeding cuts
Role Remote Area Nurse
Location Yuendumu Clinic
Dates 23/12/2015 for 4 weeks

5. Yuendumu Clinic is an isolated remote indigenous community for a
population of 1000. It is a 6 nurse post, using PCIS information system
with duties including but not limited to:
 triaging,
 consult and treatment using Carpa manual,
 follow ups,
 recalls,
 basic counselling
 referrals
 phone consultations to DMO and RFDS
 ambulance driving
 maintaining calm environment in family over supported
 presentations organising retrievals
 cannulation
 immunising
 being rostered for after hours emergency presentations
 suturing
 dispensing
Role: Remote Area Nurse
Location: Warburton PHCC, NG Health
Dates: 08 November 2015 to 22 December 2015

6. Warburton clinic is an isolated remote indigenous community
using Communicare health information system. This is a busy,
5 nurse post and my duties include:

Primary healthcare duties for indigenous community members
per the CARPA Manual
 Triaging
Dispensing
Suturing
After hours on calls Immunisation
 Over the phone consultation with doctors Evacuation of
critically ill patients
Blood and other specimen collection Organising allied health
visits
 Follow ups Home visits Basic counselling
Role: Acting Clinical Nurse Consultant
Location: Queensland health at Laura Primary Health Centre
Dates: 24/Aug 2015 to 11 Oct 2015
Duties include:
 Leading the team in day to day running of a remote and isolated primary
health Centre.
 Offering emergency nursing care
 Rostered on call every day for after hour’s emergencies,
 Teaching,
 Counselling,
 Suturing
 Organising for allied health visits,
 Retrieval of patients to higher care hospitals,

7.  Panning,
 Home visits,
Role: Clinical Nurse
Location: Queensland health at Kowanyama Primary Health Centre
Dates: August 2012-August 2015
This is an isolated aboriginal community with a population of 2000 people.
Duties include:
 Primary Health Care Centre and Isolated Practice nursing.
 X-ray taking, chest and extremities only as per my license
 Other duties included dispensing and supplying medication,
 Triaging,
 Phone consultand presentation to RFDS.
 Sexual health education, screening and treatment as well as contact
tracing,
 Plaster applications and removal,
 Immunisations,
 Attending accident sites, retrievals and extrication of MVA victims
Role: Clinical Nurse
Location: Queensland health at Waroona MPC - Charleville
Dates: March 2011-August 2012
This is a 50 bed aged care facility and duties included day to day running of an
aged care facility.

8. Duties include:
 Comfortcare,
 Regular aged patient assessment
 Feeding,
 Dressing,
 Care of the dying,
 Regular family meeting
 GP rounds
 Ordering of medication from an out of town pharmacy
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Role: Registered Nurse
Location: The Booms Aged Care home & Hospital,Thames NZ
Dates: October 2009- February 2011
This is an 80 bed facility with three levels of care, dementia, and restroom and
hospital section.
Duties included:
 assessmentof clients,
 medication rounds and dressing,
 GP rounds,
 Referrals,
 family meetings,
 Basic counselling,
 catheterisation and catheter cares,
 Feeding,
 teaching care staff,

9.  Care planning- nursing process.
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Role: Registered Nurse
Location: The Ministry of Health District Hospital,Zimbabwe
Dates: January 2003 – July 2009
Duties included:
 medical and surgical nursing care,
 Suturing,
 Triaging,
 labor progress monitoring and delivering babies,
 attending accidents seen,
 retrievals,
 expanded programs of immunisation,
 HIV patients managements,
 counselling,
 POP application,
 Home based caring,
 Health education,
 Escorting referrals
 Worked in male mixed ward, female mixed ward paediatric ward and
maternity ward.

10. References
FayeSpence
fchewspencer@hotmail.com
CNC Kowanyama
0475510125
Dianne Dancey
0438142068
ddancey@bigpond.com