Gao Hernandez

Responsibilities:

• Excellent leadership skills in managing patient census, allocating staff assignments, executing and following hospital policies and protocols, and keeping efficient flow of unit even when understaffed.
  
• Ability to establish trust and rapport with staff, interdisciplinary team, patients, and family members to effectively communicate instructions pertinent to patient safety, care, and discharge.
  
• Competent preceptor to new hires and mentor to nursing students.
• Ability to solve problems in high stress situations in composed, diplomatic, and helpful demeanor.
  
• Adept clinical skills in managing critical care of all categories of Emergency Department patients according to hospital policies and protocols
• Adept clinical skills in managing care of patients admitted to Medical Surgical/Telemetry, Step Down, and ICU units but held over for interim care in Emergency Department.
• Adept at quick and accurate assessment of patients to prioritize at appropriate emergent or non-emergent level of care.

• Provided oversight for Infection Control according to hospital mission, goals and objectives, policies and procedures, and regulatory compliance to HFAP accreditation standards and CMS standards.
• Collected, analyzed data for infectious disease trends and root causes, developed action plans and ongoing staff education for improvement.
• Engaged in writing, revision of infection control policy and procedures, clinical forms, and infection control manual.
• Performed infectious disease surveillance and reporting to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), Kern County Public Health Department, Infection Control Committee, Quality Performance Monitoring Committee (QPMC), Medical Executive Committee (MEC), and Board of Directors .
• Collaborated with various departments: Risk Management, Utilization, Safety, Environmental Services, Case Management, and hospitalists to ensure infection control compliance.
• Reviewed daily patient charts for appropriate isolation precaution for infectious disease prevention.
• Presented hospital Infection Control policies and procedures compliance at new hire orientations, annual education fair, and annual core competency testing.

• Developed and maintained effective work relationship with directors, physicians, administrative staff, medical staff, and external agencies.
• Conducted thorough and detailed daily review of patient charts to determine medically necessary stay, admission to appropriate level of care, risk management issues, infection control issues, and quality of care issues and report per hospital policy.
• Conducted daily patient interviews for appropriate and safe discharge in compliance with hospital policies and procedures.
• Collaborated with external agencies to provide proper equipment or home health services for discharged patients.

• Prioritized care of multiple patients according to acuity level.
• Developed and implemented patient care plans with medical team, patient, family, identified areas for improvement, and enacted accurate alterations.
• Administered pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies to patients as ordered per hospital policies, procedures, and standards of care.
• Notified physician of patient's changes in status or abnormal laboratory results.
• Provided thorough, detailed patient education of diagnosed disease(s) and discharge in compliance with hospital polices, procedures, and standards of care.