CHARLES CALMA, BSN, RN

• Provided comprehensive patient assessments to develop personalized care plans.
• Administered medications and treatments according to physician orders and established protocols.
• Educated patients and families on health management, fostering understanding of care processes.
• Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic patient care delivery.
• Monitored vital signs and reported changes in condition to appropriate healthcare providers.
• Educated patients and families on disease management, medication safety, and at-home healthcare strategies to promote selfcare.

• Manage and Supervise 30+ employees across four different facilities in the valley.
• Coordinated patient care plans, ensuring alignment with clinical protocols and guidelines.
• Implemented quality improvement initiatives that enhanced patient outcomes and satisfaction.
• Led multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient progress and optimize treatment strategies.
• Mentored nursing staff in best practices for patient assessment and intervention techniques.
• Managed staffing needs by creating schedules, adjusting assignments based on patient acuity levels, and delegating tasks efficiently.
• Addressed performance issues among nursing staff through constructive feedback during evaluations or informal coaching sessions.

• Performed accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans for optimal patient outcomes.
• Trained and mentored junior nursing staff on best practices in acute dialysis care protocols.
• Educated patients and families on dialysis procedures, enhancing understanding and compliance.

• Oversees dialysis nursing services and functions as nursing supervisor.
• Coordinated, monitored, assigned, and documented patient and clinical care activities over 20 dialysis chair station and high-acuity dialysis patient capacity
• Uphold quality assurance procedure to maintain patient safety and satisfaction.
• Delivered high level quality of care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on high-acuity and appropriate dialysis admission.
• Gives direct patient care to the extent of performing efficient, safe dialysis.
• Responds to all emergencies in clinic; be familiar with all emergency equipment and all emergency operational procedures.
• Demonstrates effective staffing, as appropriate with staffing ratios per state regulations, under the direction of the Administrator.
• Transcribe and implement physician's orders; assist physician during patient rounds, reviews laboratory results and report accordingly.

• Coordinates and audit information from patient's charts to the appropriate disciplines in the organization such as the RN, PT, and OT and proper utilization of care.

Collaborate with providers and interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient care and transitions.

• Retrieves records from several locations and escalates missing records or deviation from normal processes
• Assist with patient portal inquiries and directs caller to appropriate person or process
• Collaborative within our institution and with others who share our mission and goals
• Answers telephones and other customer communications professionally and efficiently.
• Performs these function in compliance with organizational policies, HIPAA and State regulations, while maintaining confidentiality of our patients protected health information. At all times, ensures that only authorize individuals have access to the patients' health information.