ELAINE B. CACCAM
Satellite Healthcare/Wellbound
VALLEJO,CA
1
Certification
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Peritoneal Dialysis RN
4 Years 1 Month- Manage caseload of 18+ Chronic Kidney Disease Patients.
- Schedule all patient's appointments: Pre-surgery appointments for PD exit site marking, provide written pre/post op instructions, post-op care, follow-up care.
- Patient and family education: Train patients and partners to safely and independently manage their peritoneal dialysis treatment at home.
- Clinical Assessment: Conduct regular assessment to monitor patient health, including fluid and electrolyte balance, and analyze dialysis data to adjust treatment plans as needed.
- Treatment Management: Oversee the PD process, ensuring proper sterile techniques are used, medications listed, updated, and administered correctly. Dialysis equipment functioning properly.
- Trouble shooting and support: Provide ongoing support and guidance to patients, help them manage complications, adhere to dietary restrictions, and navigate the challenges of living with Kidney disease.
- Collaboration: Work closely with multidisciplinary team, including physicians, nutritionists and social workers, to coordinate care and ensure a comprehensive treatment plan.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate and thorough patient records, documenting all assessments, treatments, and education.
- On call duties: Be available for on-call support to assist patients with urgent issues, which involve managing the own schedule flexibility.
Physician Substitute/ RN
2 Years 3 Months- Perform Medical Screening. Check Vitals, HCT, and Total Protein.
- Perform Medical evaluation. Review medical history, medications, physical assessment and document findings new applicant donors and collaborate with licensed physician for any questionable findings.
- Review Lab results to determine continued donor suitability.
- Counsel donor with abnormal test results and defer accordingly.
- Provide emergency care to donor requiring medical care due to donation reactions.
- Document and report any medical incidents to License Physician.
Home Hemo Dialysis Nurse
7 Months- HHD Modality education to patients that meet the match D requirements and doctor's approval.
- Educate patients on infection control, access management for different types of dialysis access: CVC, AVG, and AVF.
- Extensive training to patients in the following areas:
- Pre/Post treatment care: filling out flow sheets, taking vitals (BP/Pulse/Temp); How to calculate how much fluid to remove; How to analyze data and what to do if there are any abnormal results.
- How to setup the dialysis machine, self-cannulate, perform lab draws, administer medications during dialysis, initiate prescribed treatments and discontinuing treatments. Also, how to trouble shoot alarms and what to look out for.
- How to properly dispose of blood lines. dialyzers. needles. etc.
- How to perform preventative maintenance on all necessary equipment under their care.
- Provided monthly clinic visits for assessment, lab reviews, prescription changes, etc.
- Manage all training and treatment supplies of all patients in the Home Hemo Program.
- Manage and provide all necessary vaccines in a timely manner.
- Gather and document all information in the computer system: Snappy and Falcon.
- File all hard copies in patient's chart: Doctors' orders, Rounding Report, Kardex Lab and Med Reviews, Flow Sheets, Progress Notes, Diagnostic Procedures, Hospitalization Reports, Education and all other miscellaneous papers.
- Attend all Facility Medical Meetings; Communicate Patient Care and Progress with IDT Team, Nephrologist, RDA, MSW, FA and PCT.
Donor Collections/Head Nurse/Supervisor
16 Years- Blood center and mobile drive supervisor. Charge nurse managing a team of 3-10 nurses, depending on the blood draw drive.
- Delegate and assist where needed in all types of blood draw procedures. These included whole blood collections, therapeutic and apheresis procedures
- Act and performed collaborative multidisciplinary decisions with team members, working closely with blood bank physicians, nurses, donor technicians and lab technicians.
- Assist and perform all procedural steps towards blood collections i.e.: Interview, mini-physical, venipuncture, aftercare process, administer care for all donor reactions.
- Responsible for maintaining safety, cleanliness, and adequate supply for the center, mobile drives and for the transportation of staff, blood materials and equipment.
- Implement and modify individual needs of community as well as therapeutic donors in accordance with established policies, procedures and regulations.
- Managed and evaluated all training needs of staff gauging effectiveness of training.
- Created, managed and maintained centralized record keeping system for regulatory and required training.
- Conduct regular meetings with department education coordinators.
- Evaluate and generate report on the staffs' yearly performance
- Managed regulatory equipment validations and performed all preventive maintenances.
- Administer seasonal flu shots to both staff and families.
- Regular center supervisor for the Napa center location from 2001 to 2003.
- Training supervisor for North Bay center location in 2007.
- Vallejo center supervisor in 2008.
Dispensing Nurse
4 Years 11 MonthsParamedic Examiner
1 Year 6 MonthsEducation
Associate of Science - Nursing
Skills
Rn with over 30+ years of experience which include supervisory and charge nurse role.
Certification
- RN and LVN - Licensed.
- Robertson Medical Consulting IV Blood Withdrawal - Certified.
- Electrocardiogram - Certified.
- Banking and Finance - Certified.
- Supervisory experience managing team of up to 13 nurses.
- Apheresis trained using automated trima.
- Alyx/Baxter trained automated double red machine.
- Knowledge in Eprogesa and Vista computer systems
- Trained on 3 Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Machines. Amia and Claria from Baxter, and Liberty machine from Fresnius.
Timeline
Peritoneal Dialysis RN
Satellite Healthcare/Wellbound
08.2021 - 09.2025Read More
Physician Substitute/ RN
Octapharma Plasma
05.2019 - 08.2021Read More
Home Hemo Dialysis Nurse
Davita
03.2018 - 10.2018Read More
Donor Collections/Head Nurse/Supervisor
Blood Center of the Pacific
11.2001 - 11.2017Read More
Dispensing Nurse
Bay Area Addiction Research & Treatment
12.1995 - 11.2000Read More
Paramedic Examiner
Accufast Health Monitors
06.1994 - 12.1995Read More
Contra Costa College
Associate of Science from Nursing
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