CRYSTAL MENDOZA

Hours Per week: 40 hours per week

Salary: 135,695

Name of Supervisor: Dellene Webb

Supervisor Contact: 210-916-7428

Permission to contact: No

• Re-vamped the Military Adult ICU to Pediatric ICU training curriculum and developed a new nurse packet with weekly goals, evaluation resources, and feedback reports.
• Part of the UPC program, P.I. Program, Infection Control Coordinator, RRT program, PEWS early warning sign initiation.
• Developed Pediatric Mock Codes, Rapid Response Team program, and Central Line bundles for improvement, as well as created documentation resource binder, parent trach teaching booklet, and various skill teachings.
• Resource nurse in re-opening the PICU at SAMMC with protocols, equipment set up, training needs, procedure carts, collaborated with doctors, management, logistics and educators in this project.
• Preceptor of military ICU nurses, critical care students, critical care nurses, and new pediatric ICU nurses to be pediatric-competent for deployable situations.
• Function as the charge nurse attending staffing huddles and responding to pediatric codes and RRTs.
• Leverage PEDS, NICU, and MICU units' orientation in providing on-going education for the entire unit and hospital.
• Provide specialized, collaborative, and formal training in SAMMC pediatric transport, chemotherapy, bereavement, placing ultrasound-guided PIVs, as well as preceptor training, charge nurse training, Cortrak training, ECMO, pediatric cardiac, pediatric liver transplant, and trach teaching.
• Utilize leadership and organizational skills in performing total care for infants, children, and adults in the Intensive Care Unit.
• Provide care for trach dependent and mechanically ventilated patients with a wide variety of complications, including respiratory distress, status epilepticus, drug overdose, neurological crisis, cardiac instability, sepsis, chronic diseases, and DKA.
• Oversee the daily operations and chart auditing, function as the infection control coordinator and a charting superuser.
• Accountable for developing a comprehensive and streamlined staffing schedule for military, contract, and G.S. nurses.
• Maintained strong working relationships with physicians and ancillary staff, fostering a collaborative approach to patient care delivery.
• Educated patients and families to increase understanding of condition and best ways to manage.

Hours Per week: 36-40 hours per week

Salary: $84,000

Name of Supervisor: Patricia Jaramillo

Supervisor Contact: 210-496-2323

Permission to contact: Yes

• Partnered in constructing the on-going and annual education to staff members and assist in the joint commission training for the unit.
• Worked as part of the UPC program and the Patient Caring Touch program while also acting as a charge nurse and preceptor to students or new employees.
• Conducted full head-to-toe evaluations, including obtaining history and admission records, administering medications, assisting bedside procedures, assisting with sedation, educating patients and families, providing discharge instructions, as well as providing complete patient care.
• Collaborated closely with multidisciplinary teams, including ICU, pain service, neurosurgery, general surgery, ENT, ortho, and patient planning for patient improvement.

Hours Per week: 8-24 hours per week

Salary: $35/Hr

Name of Supervisor: Sylvia Montes

Supervisor Contact: 210-890-2364

Permission to contact: Yes

• Verified consents and documents, completed full head-to-toe assessments, obtained history/surgical checklists, prepared medications, and introduced intravenous therapy.
• Prepared adult patients for surgery, circulated in the operating room, and assisted recovering patients for home or transport to another facility or medical center.
• Provided care to patients during the course of their surgery from the preparation to the discharge of these includes, obtaining laboratory specimens and verifying laboratory results.
• Monitored vital signs that include monitoring for respiratory compromise, undertaking a thorough assessment, administering medications, discharge teaching, and arranging transport facilities.
• Circulated in the operating room in coordination with the surgeon, anesthesiologist, and the surgical team.
• Performed timeout, ensured equipment readily available and functional, conducted patient monitoring, documented surgery, ensured that the field remains sterile, and assisted all personnel.
• Improved patient outcomes with thorough preoperative assessments and collaboration with the surgical team for comprehensive plans of care.

Hours Per week: 36 hours per week

Salary: $52,000.

Name of Supervisor: Dana Roman

Supervisor Contact: 210-704-2965

Permission to contact: Yes

• Obtained extra training in caring for cardiac surgical patients, ECMO, CRRT, and liver transplant.
• Provided care to patients in a 24-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where total patient care is rendered to adults, adolescents, children, and infants with life-threatening illnesses like respiratory distress, drug overdose, congenital abnormalities, seizures, trauma, cardiac dysrhythmias, etc.
• Leadership roles as charge nurse, UPC and the skincare team. Floated within the section to Oncology, NICU, ER and IMC.
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.