Alexandra Larregui

I am seeking a position where I can utilize my knowledge, experience and skills acquired in the medical setting to benefit the community.

• Registered Nurse/Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process providing and/or supervising direct patient care.
• Responsible for the coordination through the continuum of care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge, and supporting factors the impact customer satisfaction.
• Full assessment on admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Care plans, Monthly RN assessment.
• Staff Schedule and assignments per shift.
• Super use nurse on indwelling catheter, stray Cath catch, urine sample and urine culture, education work shop with Nursing educator and infection disease nurse.
• Part of the staff presented in the month of Abril 2018.
• Verify the identification of resident to assure appropriate care is being provided to the correct patient (5 rights).
• Recognize and respond to the needs of residents and team member’s, document changes in the resident’s condition as soon as possible.
• Routinely review work shift assignments and schedule to update or change task objectives.
• Measure, pulse, respiration, weight, height.
• Report any resident abuse immediately.
• Assist the licensed nurse in providing safe and ethical care for clients, administering prescription medication or medicines.
• Registered Nurse / Administered medication on a daily basic and put intravenous (IV) lines when deemed necessary by a Physician, knowledge as an EKG tech.
• Monitored this output and notified superiors of any charges.
• In addition to taking vital signs, involved in patient care including assisting physician, in addition helping with a multidisciplinary communication form used daily to share the plan of care.
• Daily nursing activities in my area included care for and recovery of post-surgical cardiovascular patients, including adult and geriatric populations.
• Administered medications to patients in the post-open-heart surgery care.
• Provided specialized and advanced medical care for patients suffering from various types of heart problems or problems in the cardiovascular area.
• Review patients medical history, taking note of the importance information that could impact care.
• Non-invasive laboratory, Holter interpretation, assisting physician in stress test, Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE), Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE), Cardioversion, Defibrillator test (DFT).
• Monitoring post anesthesia and ensure they recover properly, included in-patient and outpatient.
• Administrating post-procedure medications.
• Addressing issues with recovery and collaborated with physicians, coworkers to provide quality of care.
• Faced with different needs, stages of health and risks.
• Organized and able to prioritize.
• Faced with urgent, life-or-death situations almost daily.
• Being able to function during an emergency and able to calm patients who are scare, in pain and help them understand the situation.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills.
• Fully bilingual.
• Licensed as RN in Puerto Rico.
• Fifteen years of experience as an RN in Puerto Rico.
• CEU’s in ECG, Infectious Diseases, Blood Transfusions.
• Currently recognized by the American Heart Association as an ACLS/AED Provider for Adult, Child and Infant.
• Knowledge and usage of IV Pump, Enteral feeding and Ventilators.
• Skin assessment, cardiac /respiratory distress intervention and prevention on infection disease.
• RAC/MDS’s interviews and documentation.
• Management and treat patient with dementia, PTSD and psychiatric disorders.
• COVID-19 test, education, prevention and follow up in positive patient following CDC and OSHA guidelines.
• COVID-19 ward providing treatments, continue monitoring to acute care patients.
• Telemetry certify.