Andrea Valle

NICU/PICU Rotation (Fall 2024/Spring 2025)

• Performed patient assessments.
• Managed patients on bubble CPAP and titrated settings according to the patient's status.
• Performed trach care
• Administered respiratory medications
• Educated patient's family on how to properly use an inhaler

• Provided care to patients throughout the hospital (Floors, ICU, ED, NICU)
• Worked with Servo-I, Maxtec High Flow, Bubble CPAP, and BiPAP.
• Responded to code blues and provided CPR.
• Obtained and analyzed arterial blood gases.
• Assisted with intubations and extubations.

• Provided care to patients on ECMO and nitric oxide in the cardiac ICU.
• Worked with Dräger, Bellavista, and LTV ventilators.
• Assisted with intubating and extubating patients.
• Set up and assisted physicians during bronchoscopy procedures.
• Transported patients to CT and OR.
• Administered respiratory medications.

• Provided care for patients in the emergency department and medsurg.
• Worked with Dräger, BiPAP, and Vapotherm High Flow.
• Performed trach care.
• Provided lung expansion and airway clearance therapy to patients.
• Assisted physicians during conscious sedations and intubations.
• Obtained arterial blood gases.