Marco Garrison

• Staff Development: Appointed as a Certified Preceptor to lead the onboarding, training, and clinical protocol evaluation of new teammates.
• Therapy Monitoring: Supervise patient physiological responses to ongoing dialysis treatments; recognize and report subtle clinical shifts to the supervising nurse.
• Infection Control: Disinfect, sterilize, and assemble specialized hemodialysis equipment to uphold rigorous quality control and strict sanitary standards.
• Technical Oversight: Verify dialysate pressures, fluid conductivity, and core temperatures to maintain absolute compliance with federal safety regulations.
• Troubleshooting: Calibrate, inspect, and repair intricate clinical machinery to swiftly resolve equipment malfunctions and eliminate treatment downtime.

• Vascular Access Leadership: Perform expert clinical assessments and cannulations, serving as the primary facility resource for complex vascular access challenges.
• Target Management: Monitor and track patient vascular access maturation to guarantee timely surgical referrals and achieve successful cannulation within strict 90-day targets.
• Care Coordination: Deliver real-time communication and critical updates regarding access usage and needle placement to the interdisciplinary care team.
• Data Integrity: Record precise, time-sensitive metrics regarding vital signs and treatment parameters directly onto Hemodialysis Treatment Sheets.
• Patient Advocacy: Onboard and welcome patients, comprehensively evaluate their post-treatment well-being, and immediately escalate complex medical complaints to nursing supervisors.
• Technical Precision: Program customized dialysis machine settings for Ultrafiltration (UF) goals, treatment time, Sodium (Na) modeling, and UF modeling.

• Patient Independence: Empowered individuals with specialized behavioral and physical needs to build autonomy and hit daily milestones.
• Medication Administration: Safely administered daily medications under rigid adherence to state regulatory requirements and agency policies.
• Operations: Supported the administrative and operational workflows of the residence to consistently meet high quality-of-care baselines.

Completed Core Sciences & Labs: Anatomy & Physiology I & II (with Labs), Microbiology (with Lab), and Psychology