Cassidy Contreras

• Provide comprehensive care for critically ill medical, cardiac, and neurological patients.

• Serve as Relief Charge Nurse coordinating staffing, admissions, transfers, workflow, and patient throughput.

• Mentor nursing staff and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to optimize outcomes.

• Manage ventilators, CRRT, TTM, external ventricular drains, stroke protocols, and post-cardiac catheterization patients.

• Maintain compliance with quality standards, documentation requirements, and patient safety initiatives

• Performed pre-operative assessments, IV starts, patient education, discharge planning, documentation, and coordinated patient flow with procedural teams.

• Supervised nursing staff in a skilled nursing facility while coordinating patient care, medication administration, documentation, and interdisciplinary communication.

• Checked in patients, scheduled patients, filing, created accounts for new patients, in charge of a medical therapy unit clinic, posting statements, stocking/cleaning patient rooms, and ordered medical supplies for patients.