Watching the trend
Why a single vital sign lies and a trend tells the truth — how I teach new grads to read deterioration early.
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01 · The nurse
— Sujata Pradhan
The steady hand at 3 a.m.
Laboratory technologist with ten years in NABL-accredited diagnostic and hospital labs, specialising in clinical biochemistry and immunoassay. Runs fully automated analysers, manages internal and external quality control, and supervises a shift of five technicians.
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Particulars · one glanceBaseBhubaneswar, Odisha
RegistrationKNMC · RN/RM active
UnitsICU · ER · Med-Surg
ShiftsDays · nights · rotating
LanguagesEnglish · Malayalam · Hindi
StatusOpen · 30-day notice
02 · Competencies
What I bring to the bedside
Skills, calibrated by years of night shifts and full wards. Here's the range.
Clinical biochemistry
Immunoassay analysers
Internal QC and Westgard rules
External quality assessment
NABL documentation
Calibration and maintenance
LIS and result validation
Reagent inventory
Shift supervision
Training juniors
03 · The round
Care is attention, repeated
Medicine cures in bursts; nursing is the steady work in between. The monitor tells you what happened; a good nurse tells you what's about to. My job is to be watching before the alarm.
- AssessHead-to-toe at handover — I trust my own eyes on every patient before I trust the chart.
- AnticipateTrends over numbers. A rising heart rate and a quiet patient worry me more than one bad reading.
- AdvocateI escalate early and clearly. The patient who can't speak for themselves has me speaking for them.
- ComfortClinical care and human care are the same job. Dignity, warmth and honesty, especially at the end.
04 · Postings
Ten years, many wards
Senior Laboratory Technologist
NABL-accredited regional diagnostic laboratory
Supervise the night shift of five technicians processing samples from 60 collection centres across Odisha.
4 years
Laboratory Technician
300-bed private hospital
Handled emergency samples in biochemistry and haematology, reporting critical values to doctors by phone. Performed blood grouping and cross-matching for the hospital blood storage centre.
1 year
Junior Lab Technician
Pathology lab
Prepared and stained slides for routine pathology and microbiology tests. Maintained sample registers and dispatched reports to referring doctors.
05 · Training
Education
B.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Technology
Government medical college paramedical wing
06 · Licensure & certs
Certifications
Registered Medical Laboratory…
Internal Auditor training on ISO 15189
Biomedical Waste Management, certified…
07 · Commendations
Recognised on shift
Nurse of the YearAmrita Institute of Medical Sciences
2023Zero medication errors, five yearsICU shift record, verified audit
2019–Flood-response commendationDistrict health service, 2018 surge
2018
08 · Nurse's notes
MAR 2026 NOV 2025 JUL 2025
From the chart
The kind honest sentence
How to tell a frightened family the truth without taking away their hope. The hardest skill nobody certifies.
Read note →Surviving nights
Ten years of night shifts, and the practical routines that kept me sharp at 4 a.m. and human by morning.
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09 · From the ward
What they say
From the ward · 01
She caught my father slipping into sepsis before the numbers looked bad. The doctor said her call bought the hours that saved him.
Patient's daughterICU · 2024From the ward · 01
Sujata is the nurse I put with our sickest patients and our newest doctors. Calm is contagious, and hers fills a room.
ICU ConsultantAmrita InstituteFrom the ward · 01
She precepted me through my first year. I now catch the things she taught me to see — and I teach them the same way.
Staff NurseFormer preceptee
10 · For hospitals & clinics
The hiring brief
Available from Aug 2026 · happy to work a trial shift on your hardest unit
Current roleSenior Laboratory Technologist, NABL-accredited…
Open toICU / critical care · charge nurse · nurse educator
ShiftsFull-time · rotating · nights ok
Expected salary₹6–9 LPA / negotiable
Notice period30 days
ICU Head, Amrita InstituteCurrent · shared on request
Nursing Superintendent, Lourdes Hospital2016–19 · shared on request
11 · Reach me