Christina Bonifacini

• Audited charts and reviewed clinical documents to verify accuracy.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Contributed substantially to successful department JCAHO accreditation by consistently operating to highest standards of care.

I had the privilege of serving as a member of the specialized Stabilization Training Assistance Reintegration (STAR) unit, where I rendered nursing services to patients with developmental disabilities during their reintegration into the community. The scope of nursing care delivered encompassed wound care, bowel care, seizure management, ostomy care and skills of daily living. I also participated in case management meetings to discuss appropriate community placement, reintegration of clients back in to the community and performed routine chart auditing.

I served as a registered nurse at a Crisis Stabilization Unit for Solano County, where an individual's safety was evaluated in terms of their ability to care for themselves, as well as any potential risk to themselves or others. This emergent psychiatric facility served as a 24-hour evaluation facility. In my nursing capacity, I was responsible for administering emergency medications and liaising with unit psychiatrists, physicians, law enforcement, and other ancillary staff to meet the individualized needs of all patients. I monitored for emerging symptoms of mental illness and communicated with psychiatrist to provide treatment as ordered. I also observed for complications associated with withdrawal from various substances including but not limited to alcohol, methamphetamine and narcotics. My approach involved providing responsive and compassionate nursing care, collecting collateral data, in conjunction with assessing patients who required extended care and referring them to appropriate longer-termed facilities.