Balvina Zamora
Victorville,CA
Summary
Dedicated Critical Care Registered Nurse with 4 years of direct patient care experience. Adept at doctor communication and patient education with extensive knowledge of emergent treatments and planning long-term for patients. Successful at advocating patient needs and quick diagnoses. Confident in skills to provide exceptional nursing care to patients and their families. Hardworking and passionate job seeker fluent in Spanish, with strong communication skills when dealing with patients and family to deliver respectful, and compassionate patient-centered care. Strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level PACU position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Critical Care Registered Nurse
Kaiser Permanente
07.2022 - Current
- Overseeing various aspects of telemetry by administering thrombolytic therapy, dysrhythmia interpretation, and chest tubes.
- Coordinate with healthcare staff from various disciplines to devise, carry out, and manage personalized care plans to benefit patient health and recovery.
- Conduct patient assessments, record vitals, and analyze records and charts to define care requirements.
- Assess and manage various patient treatments for numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute respiratory distress.
- Administered medications and treatments as ordered by physician.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Proven interpersonal and leadership skills ability and currently being trained for a Charge RN position.
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Dignity Health/ Community Hospital of San Bernardino
11.2021 - Current
- Monitoring patient’s vital signs and heart rhythms in real-time while managing and stabilizing vital signs by titrating drips, and assessing patient response
- Provided critical care to ventilated patients, specifically covid positive patients
- Proning critically ill patients to maximize lung effort
- Learned quickly and adapted to care for the critically ill patient population
- Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
- Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.
- Maintained a respectful treatment environment that honored patients' and families' cultural and religious traditions and preferences.
- Recorded patients' medical status and treatment details in electronic charts to accurately document medical care.
- Guided patients, caregivers, and family members on plans of treatment and helpful resources available locally to support care.
Transplant Nurse
Aya Healthcare
07.2022 - 08.2022
- Providing kidney and liver recovery to new transplanted and donor patients
- Treating current liver and transplant waitlisted patients with disease management, while also providing previous organ transplanted patients with organ rejection care and recovery
- Trained in recovering new kidney and liver transplant patients
- Trained in medication management in anti-rejection medication
- Placed as a resource nurse multiple times
- Floated to cardiac progressive care unit as needed
- Proficient in EPIC
- Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement, and enhance treatment strategies.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry
Dignity Health/ St Bernardine’s Medical Center
08.2019 - 10.2021
- Providing care before and after cardiac surgery, monitoring cardiac rhythms, educating patients and families on signs and symptoms of cardiac disease and stroke, consistently monitoring patients’ vital signs, and heart rhythms, monitoring patient response to heparin drips, and working as a team with fellow nurses, physicians and nurse aides to provide the best care possible to all patients on the unit
- My first nursing job position where I was able to work with a great team, learned how to manage my time, and excel in providing adequate care for my patients
- I quickly became a resource nurse in the unit after a few short months.
- Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined the next course of action.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ03.2024
Associate of Science - Nursing
San Bernardino Valley College
San Bernardino, CA05.2019
Skills
- Fluent in Spanish
- Emotional Support
- Family Advocacy
- Adaptable and Flexible
- Healthcare Team Collaboration
- Evidence-Based Practices
- Reliable and Responsible
- Emergency Interventions
- Honest and Dependable
- Task and Work Prioritization
- Competent in Cerner and EPIC software
- Treatment Planning
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Critical Care Registered Nurse
Kaiser Permanente
07.2022 - Current
Transplant Nurse
Aya Healthcare
07.2022 - 08.2022
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Dignity Health/ Community Hospital of San Bernardino
11.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry
Dignity Health/ St Bernardine’s Medical Center
08.2019 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Associate of Science - Nursing
San Bernardino Valley College
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