Andrea Torres

Work with patients with a wide variety of conditions, including congestive heart failure, renal failure, cancer, stroke, TBI, infections, nonhealing wounds, cellulitis, myocardial infarction and more.

Care for patients following surgeries and procedures, such as, bowel resections and ostomies, spinal surgery, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), cardiac catheterization, lower extremity angiogram and more.

Educate patients about a wide variety of conditions and review discharge instructions, including necessary follow up visits, changes to medications and possible side effects, caring for incisions at home, signs to report to the doctor and when to return to the emergency room or call 911.

Float to different units throughout the hospital, including medical surgical, trauma surgical, cardiac surgical, neurosurgery, neuroscience, orthopedics, oncology and telemetry.

Communicate with multiple care team members to coordinate care of patients, including patient care techs, case managers, social workers, doctors, wound care nurses, IV therapy, dialysis nurses, patient transportation, house supervisor, dieticians, stroke educators, diabetes educators, dietary, and house keeping.

Communicate through Teams application and participate in online meetings to stay up to date with changes to policies and procedures.

Efficiently chart notes and assessments due to typing and grammar skills, as well as experience with Epic.

Cared for 4-6 patients at a time with various health conditions, including congestive heart failure, renal failure, sepsis, new onset atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism and more.

Worked as fill-in charge nurse.

Placed home cardiac event monitors throughout the hospital.

Communicated with multiple professionals to manage care of patients, such as physicians, social workers, case managers, care partners, dietary personnel, maintenance and housekeeping.

Filled in on other floors, including step-down, neurology and medical surgical.