Pavla Rehakova

Dedicated healthcare professional with extensive experience in elderly care, palliative care, and dementia awareness. Proficient in NHS systems, infection prevention and control, and healthcare software. Skilled in patient hygiene management, manual handling training, and providing emotional support. Adept at measuring vital signs, including temperature, pulse, and blood pressure. Committed to patient safeguarding and confidentiality while ensuring high standards of personal care assistance and comfort for distressed patients. Career goal: To continue enhancing patient wellbeing through compassionate care and advanced healthcare practices.

Theatre Healthcare Support Worker, Royal United Hospital, Bath, Preparing the theatre environment each day for planned procedures, ensuring lights, diathermy, and robotic system (e.g., Da Vinci XI) are set up and functioning correctly, maintaining the sterility of all consumables and instruments, including swabs, needles, and blades used in each procedure, accurately documenting information on the whiteboard, such as surgical counts and necessary equipment, assisting the scrub nurse during procedures, preparing for the next day’s procedures by ensuring all necessary equipment and supplies are available, restocking the preparation room and sluice area with essential supplies, supporting patient positioning and safely transferring patients from the operating table onto a trolley.