Mary Ann Navares

• Helping clients with mental health issues and substance use disorders to medically stabilize by initiating crisis prevention, performing comprehensive nursing assessment, discharge planning, and treatment by safely administering detox medication depending on the kind of substance the client is using such as Alcohol, Methamphetamine, Opioid, and Benzodiazepine as ordered by the prescribing physician.

• Worked as a vaccinator in Flu & COVID 19 clinics depending on the assigned location.
• Conducted Rapid COVID-19 and flu testing such as PCR test, and Rapid testing using BD Veritor and Abbott Machine.

• Provides skilled nursing services to patients in their homes
• Skills include: G-tube care, tracheostomy care & suctioning, straight catheterization, glucose monitoring, nebulizer treatment, and medication management.
• Traveled to patients' homes to assess health conditions and provide superior level of nursing care.
• Supported personal care needs, preparing meals, and cleaning house.

- Working with female patients diagnosed with disordered eating.

- Responsible in vital signs taking, medication management, waived testing, reviewing lab work, assessing patients, documenting in EMR, coordinating with outpatient services, communicating with the team and providing support to the team and patients with any ADL monitoring.

- Monitoring patient behavior and carefully assessing for suicide risk.

- Sitting with patient in the dining table and modelling positive table behaviors.

• Provided Skilled Nursing Services to the geriatric residents in the Long term care facility
• Monitored vital signs and performed other direct resident care duties.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Vaccinated patients to protect individuals from measles, pneumonia, influenza and other illnesses of concern.

• Provides skilled nursing services to children in the school setting depending on assignment under the direction of RN supervisor.

• Worked with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum and related Disorders in modifying problem behaviors using evidence based Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Techniques.
• Intervened with clients' challenging behaviors by reinforcing therapeutic alternatives and coping mechanisms.

Top Volunteer in working with school age children 3-5 years old in the classroom setting.

undergone internship with the Nursing Service Department as Nurse Trainee assigned in Medical Department.

Training Period: May 24- August 2010

Type of Hospital: Tertiary

Bed Capacity: 100 beds

Type of Scheduling: Eight-hour shift, forty-hour work per week.