Arezu Lightfoot

Key Roles & Skills

• Managed high-acuity cardiovascular patients, performing comprehensive assessments, monitoring vital signs, and implementing individualized care plans.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and execute evidence-based interventions and optimize patient outcomes.
• Led and participated in quality improvement initiatives and protocol development to enhance unit practices and reduce readmissions.
• Educated patients and families on heart health, medication adherence, and post-discharge care, including guidance on advanced directives and end-of-life decisions.
• Supervised, mentored, and trained junior nursing staff, promoting adherence to best practices in high-acuity care.
• Coordinated complex discharge planning for safe transitions to home or rehabilitation facilities.
• Advocated for patient-centered care within larger healthcare systems, ensuring individualized needs informed clinical decision-making.

Key Roles & Skills

• Assisted in patient care, including examinations and procedures. Collected and recorded patient data, reporting information and observations to nursing personnel in a timely manner.
• Obtained vital signs, height, weight, nutritional intake and output and performed blood glucose monitoring via finger-stick blood samples.
• Routinely performed EKG.
• Maintained unit and medical records related to work area management and care. This included admissions, surgeries, transfers, discharges, and physician call list.
• Updated facility boards and telemetry box reconciliation according to guidelines.
• Cross trained as a monitor technician distinguishing and documenting variances in cardiac rhythms and reported to appropriate staff.

Key Roles & Skills

• Responsible for patient care and comfortability. Worked alongside nutritional experts, developing meal plans and maintaining a high energy, positive, and structured environment.

• Associations and Volunteer Work: National Student Nurses' Association, Fair Park COVID Vaccine Volunteer