Claudia Pena-White

• Pre/post
• Procedural RN
• Direct patient care

• Travel RN
• Pre, post and procedural RN

Procedural RN

• Procedural
• Pre/Post
• Moderate Sedation

• Pre/post
• PACU

• Company Overview: Manassas, VA
• Pre and post care
• Moderate Sedation
• Manassas, VA

• 32 bed unit
• 1:2 ratio

• Company Overview: Silver Spring MD
• 30 bed unit
• 1:2 ratio
• Silver Spring MD

• 32 bed unit
• 1:2 ratio

• 30 bed unit
• 1:2 ratio

• Company Overview: Manassas, VA
• Providing clinical and administrative support to the ICU and Special Care unit
• Promoting and encouragement for team engagement
• Accomplishments: Created a bi-monthly Newsletter to both units
• In collaboration with the Northern VA market educators played a key role in educating staff in CLABSI and CAUTI bundles
• With guidance and approval of Acute Care Services director new cardiac monitors and video monitoring placed for patient safety on ICU and SCU respectively
• Lead bi-monthly ICU and SCU staff meetings
• Lead CAUTI and CLABSI stand-downs
• In collaboration with ICU Providers, created a Survey for ICU patients and families for leader rounding; created a QR code and posted on Teams page, for team members to view results immediately
• Initiated Unit Based Council for ICU
• Proficient in Midline placement throughout Acute Care Services
• Manassas, VA

• Company Overview: Manassas, VA/NOVANT Health UVA Haymarket Medical Center, Haymarket, VA
• In-house administrative representative and resource person for all patients, staff, physicians, and visitors
• Coordinate all operational activities for the Departments in collaboration with Unit Directors/Managers for their assigned shift
• Responsible for fostering a safe patient/staff environment driven by the principles of 'First Do No Harm'
• Assigns float and temporary nursing personnel to appropriate areas and duties, reviews clinical experience and the needs of the nursing units
• Facilitate communication and problem resolution; promote good intra and interdepartmental relationships
• Manassas, VA/NOVANT Health UVA Haymarket Medical Center, Haymarket, VA

• Company Overview: Manassas, VA
• Provide nursing care to patients in the Emergency Department for both adult and pediatric populations; excel at recognizing and executing immediate interventions for patients with acute needs
• Serve as the leader of the healthcare team at Novant Health by establishing an authentic personalized relationship with the patient and their chosen support system, collaborating with physicians and other team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualized plan of care that promotes optimal health or a comforting peaceful death
• Implement evidence based practice and compassion to assist the patient in navigating their health journey
• Expert in the care of patients in critical care with various drips, ventilator support and cooling machine post cardiac arrest; medical surgical with multisystem needs and problems; progressive care to include Post-Cath patients; Orthopedics, including joint replacement post-ops; and post-partum and newborn-nursery
• Develops team members through mentoring, orientation, and providing feedback
• Commitment to leveraging diversity and inclusion in support of quality care
• Implemented the Discharge Nurse Pilot: A care connection process which made follow up phone calls to patients, assisted them with resources through phone call interviews; helped improve organization’s nurse to patient communication numbers and cut discharge times
• Manassas, VA

• Company Overview: Fairfax, VA
• Active member of the trauma team by responding to all Trauma Team activations during working hours, evaluating the performance of the trauma team and providing direct patient care and/or documentation during trauma resuscitation
• Expert in the care and maintenance various drips at the ICU level such as: vasopressors, paralytics and sedatives, full support ventilators
• Assisted in emergent bedside procedures such as: tracheostomies, ventriculostomies, chest tube placement, percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy, central lines, spinal/lumbar immobilization and management of these
• Collaborate with WRTC in the care of patients in organ donation processes
• Fairfax, VA

• Company Overview: Fairfax, VA
• Fairfax, VA