ARRIANE DE VERA VALEÑA, RN, BSN

Company Overview: Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center is a 443-bed acute care hospital providing comprehensive services including high-risk obstetrics, cardiac and vascular care, oncology, orthopedics, surgery, and pediatrics. Part of the Adventist HealthCare system since 1979.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
• Answered codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care.
• Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with leadership to devise initiatives for improving nursing satisfaction, retention and morale.
• Performed frequent checks on life support equipment and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions.
• Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
• Precepted new nurses, providing guidance on unit functions and individual roles, hospital policies and procedures and nursing best practices.
• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.

Company Overview: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust – London, UK
One of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts, serving 1M+ people across Brent, Harrow, and nearby boroughs. Operates major acute services at Northwick Park (600 beds), Ealing, Central Middlesex, and St. Mark’s Hospitals. Northwick Park houses one of the UK’s busiest EDs, a top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit, and one of only three hyper-acute rehab units nationwide.

• Maintains care standards in accident and emergency department by providing direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Administers first aid treatment and life support to care for sick or injured individuals.
• Triaging patient using Manchester Triage system as a clinical risk management tool to safely manage and prioritize patient’s needs.
• Assists doctors with examinations of patients by taking vital signs and drawing blood.
• Administers medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Manages cases on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious head injuries, major haemorrhages, ACS, Stroke, Covid 19 and critically ill patients.
• Teamed on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious head injuries, gunshot wounds, and thoracic trauma.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients anf high knowledgeable about life support machines and non-invasive ventilations.

Company Overview: King Abdullah Medical Complex – Jeddah (KAMCJ) – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is a 300-bed Ministry of Health hospital providing elective medical and surgical care, ICU/CCU, trauma services, and advanced diagnostics. Serves North Jeddah and is the MERS-CoV referral center for the western province, offering extracorporeal life support when needed.

• Coordinated and provided direct patient care within the scope of RN license with emphasis on the special skills and qualities required in ICU.
• Supervised junior nurses and performed charge nurse roles by ensuring the smooth operation and nursing management of the 26-bed unit.
• Assisted in performing arterial cut-downs, inserted central lines and inserted endotracheal tubes as part of trauma and resuscitation team.
• Secured controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.
• Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and ARDS on ECMo and CKD patients on CRRT.

Company Overview: Specialist Group Hospital & Trauma Center is a model of urban healthcare – progressive, vital, meeting the changing needs of the community today and tomorrow. It is a tertiary hospital with a 100-bed capacity which provides access to cost effective quality health care delivered in a compassionate manner to all, regardless of creed, race and social status.

• Conducted comprehensive physical assessment (head to toe) of patient.
• Developed and implemented patient care plans based on physicians’ instructions and generally accepted nursing practices.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Monitored hemodynamic variances to identify signs of life-threatening complications.
• Managed patients' pain by implementing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions.