Claudia Pinard RN, BSN, CPN

• Manage patients with various pulmonary conditions including Cystic fibrosis, Asthma, ILD, chronic respiratory failure, latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), BPD (bronchopulmonary dysplasia), lung transplant and sleep disorders.
• Specialty nurse for PIVOT (Pulmonary Integrated Ventilator Outpatient Team)
• Facilitate communication between the patient's family and the healthcare team regarding treatment plans and patient progress.
• Triage calls from families and provide medical advice.
• Provide education to families on ventilator care, including equipment use, emergency procedures, and home care instructions.
• Join inpatient ICU rounds for new and current chronic vent patients.
• Participate in relevant training, workshops, and professional development activities to enhance skills and knowledge.

• Provide medical care and for patients aging from birth to young adult.
• Ensured the delivery of compassionate and quality care by overseeing the work of fellow nurses and medical assistants.
• Administered routine immunizations to pediatric patients
• Conducted straight catheterizations on infants to obtain urine samples.
• Administer oral steroids, inhalers, and nebulizer treatments.
• Obtain specimens swabs for viral testing
• Triage and offer patient-specific medical advice to callers, including patients and parents.

Provide skilled nursing care for up to fourteen medically complex children at a time in a 80-bed facility, focusing specifically on airway and respiratory management.

Suction tracheostomies, manage mechanically ventilated children, seizure disorders, manage kangaroo pumps and medications via gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes, provide chest physiotherapy, monitor intrathecal Baclofen pumps and VP shunts, change feeding tubes and tracheostomy tubes.

Communicate directly with families regarding child's heath status.

Deliver outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.

• Administered specialized care to critically ill pediatric patients in a 22-bed unit with various diagnoses including respiratory failure, congenital anomalies, and critical medical complications.
• Collected lab specimens, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and lab results.
• Closely monitor and recognize changes in patents clinical status and immediately alerting physicians to perform interventions.
• Safely caring for patients during emergent situations including codes, intubations and conscious sedation's.
• Providing education to parents of patients in regard to medical procedures and other subjects.