Vanessa Alo

• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising team comprised of RNs, CNAs and EPCTs.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Provided clinical instructions to orient new nurses and student nurses to achieve training outcomes.
• Proficient charge nurse, resource nurse, primary care nurse and chemotherapy certified nurse

Worked directly with Dr. Linda Gaudiani to redesign the Braden Diabetes website including the "Ask Dr. G" column and content and contributing accessible and meaningful resources for patients, collaborated with multiple team members on community outreach programs for both English and Spanish speaking populations, and created diabetes related content for the Marin General/Marin Health Medical Center Facebook social media page.

Worked under the direction of Dr. Susan Cumming to audit acute inpatient discharge paperwork for completeness and quality improvement. Created spreadsheets to input data, monitor trends and summarize findings in order to discern areas of improvement and recommendations for the institution moving forward.