Adriana Restrepo
Port Saint Lucie,FL
Summary
Dynamic and enthusiastic Registered Nurse bringing over 7 years of experience on caring for patients and coordinating care with other healthcare staff. Proven history of leveraging critical thinking, analysis and medical knowledge to deliver superior care in high-pressure environments. Expert multi-tasker capable of prioritizing clinical and operational tasks in fast-paced settings.
Charge Nurse effective at uniting nursing team to achieve patient care goals, improving satisfaction, and creating initiatives to provide a higher level of nursing care.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
HCA Lawnwood
2021.03 - 2024.07
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
- Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
- Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
- Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
- Performed frequent checks on life support equipment and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions.
- Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Delivered high level of quality care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on acuity and appropriate department admission.
- Manage CRRT treatment.
- Relief Charge Register Nurse. Collaborating with multidisciplinary team to ensure high quality of care.
Charge Nurse, Progressive Care Unit
Westside Regional Medical Center
2019.11 - 2021.03
- Supervised and managed functions for 36-bed Progressive Care unit, including daily scheduling, tasking and administration.
- Currently working on re-organizing the unit to improve workflow and clinical practice.
- Kept optimal supply levels in treatment rooms, triage and other areas to meet typical patient loads.
- Contributed substantially to successful department JCAHO accreditation by consistently operating to highest standards of care.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
Registered Nurse, PCU
Westside Regional Medical Center
2017.11 - 2019.11
- Assist with collaborative team to provide safety and quality care. Patient and family education.
- Disease process management of CHF, cardiac cases, MI, cardiac arrhythmias, PE/DVT.
- Excellent Critical care training Excellent Health promotion Excellent Palliative care Excellent Skilled in Microsoft and Adobe Excellent Document control Excellent Resolving discrepancies Excellent Patient and family advocacy Excellent Intravenous therapy Excellent Strong clinical judgment Excellent Infection control Excellent Spanish Native Respond to emergent and live saving situations.
- Report changes in patient's condition. Follow physician orders. Computerized charting system compliance. Compliance of required continuing education courses. Medication administration (start and monitoring IV therapy, including cardiac drips and titration).
- Analyze potential risk and create alternatives to improve patient care and safety compliance.
- Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
- Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Managed care for pre/post-cardiac procedures (CABG, Cardiac-Cath, pacemaker/AICD placement) patients from initial recovery through discharge. Contributed substantially to successful department JCAHO stroke accreditation by consistently operating to highest standards of care.
- Participated in the PCU Practice Council committee as a chair member for over a year, meeting with co-workers and leadership team to discuss policies, propose revisions and implement changes.
- Promoted professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training for BSN program. Also working on PCCN accreditation for all nurses in the unit.
- Precepts new nurses, providing guidance on unit functions and individual roles,
- hospital policies and procedures and nursing best practices. As well as serving as a mentor and following up of the nurses performance.
Education
Bachelor Of Applied Science - Bachelor of Science Nursing
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL05.2021
Skills
- Advanced Life Support
- Respiratory Maintenance
- Patient Assessment
- Decision Making
- Effective Communication
- Medication Administration
- Team Collaboration
- Renal Function Management
- Metabolic Function Monitoring
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Organ Donor Procedures
- Therapy Management
- Hemodynamics Monitoring
- Neurological Monitoring
- Professionalism
- Telemetry Monitoring
- Compassionate Care
- Multitasking
- Electronic Health Records
- Critical Thinking
- Conflict Resolution
- Problem Solving
- Cultural Competence
- Active Listening
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Infection Control
- Time Management
- Ventilator Management
- Pain Management
- Healthcare Team Collaboration
- Fluid Intake and Output Monitoring
- Endotracheal Intubations
- Patient Advocacy
- Shock Symptom Identification
- Quality Assurance
Affiliations
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
HCA Lawnwood
2021.03 - 2024.07
Charge Nurse, Progressive Care Unit
Westside Regional Medical Center
2019.11 - 2021.03
Registered Nurse, PCU
Westside Regional Medical Center
2017.11 - 2019.11
Bachelor Of Applied Science - Bachelor of Science Nursing
Jacksonville University