Karena Whelan Dunphy
Moonveen Carrigeen, Via Waterford Mobile: 0872861673 karenawhelan@gmail.com

Summary
20 years experience as a registered general nurse. Gained invaluable experience in a dressing clinic for 5 years and for the past 7 years worked as clinical nurse specialist in wound care and tissue viability

Skills general wound care practises including assessment,management and documentation providing education to staff nurses /multidisciplinary team in all areas of wound care clinical skills including wound debridement, doppler assessment,application of compression bandaging and negative pressure involved in clinical audits policies and procedures budgetary control of dressings ,mattresses etc involved in various tendering processes

Work History
Clinical Nurse Specialist Tissue Viability University hospital Waterford Staff Nurse dressing clinic University hospital Waterford Staff nurse- vascular ward Beaumont hospital agency- staff nurse vascular, emergency dept,ICU, surgical etc Alliance nursing agency Staff Nurse- orthopaedic and Emergency Dept St Vincents Hosp Sydney,Prince Of Wales Sydney staff nurse- care of the elderly Merlin Park Hospital home help New York health care agency 06/2007 － 01/2015 Waterford, Ireland 05/2001 － 05/2007 Waterford, Ireland 01/1999 － 05/2001 Dublin, Ireland 01/1998 － 01/1999 Dublin, Ireland 05/1996 － 05/1997 Sydney, Australia 11/1995 － 07/1996 Galway, Ireland 09/1991 － 12/1991 New York, USA 2005 2004 2003 2001 1998 1995 1991

Education certificate: University Hospital Waterford - ECDL-European Driving Licence Waterford, Ireland certificate: Waterford Institute Of Technology - nursing management Waterford, Ireland Higher Diploma: Royal College Of Surgeons - Tissue Viability and general wound care Dublin, Dublin, Ireland BSc: Royal College Of Surgeons - Nursing studies Dublin, Ireland certificate: Ballyfermot