Elisa Montoya
Oceanside,CA
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) with experience offering comprehensive patient care in outpatient environments. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Works well with diverse patient populations and fosters trusting relationships to improve outcomes.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Pre-op/PACU
Retina Surgery Center
01.2024 - Current
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Ensured accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, evaluations, and medical records in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Obtained informed consent from patients, ensuring that they fully understood the risks and benefits associated with their surgical procedures.
- Streamlined the discharge process for PACU patients, ensuring thorough education on home care instructions and follow-up appointments.
- Improved patient outcomes by consistently providing high-quality preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative nursing care.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
Patient Staff Assistant
Kaiser Permanente
03.2021 - 05.2022
- Provided clerical support, addressing routine, and special requirements
- Produced high-quality communications for internal and external use
- Maintained professional front desk, handled incoming calls and delivered exceptional service to every guest
- Boosted productivity by keeping office records current, well-organized and efficiently accessible for various needs.
Store Associate
In-N-Out Burger
03.2017 - 03.2021
- Provided and maintained high standards of customer service during high-volume/fast-paced situations, preparing quality food products while practicing proper food safety procedures and guidelines, cashier/money handling, maintaining cleanliness, taking initiative to assist in additional tasks within restaurant, training new and existing associates
- Managed over 200 customer orders per day.
Clinical Care Extender
Adventist Health Glendale - COPE Health Scholars
02.2018 - 08.2019
- Provided direct patient care that included obtaining vital signs, bathing and feeding patients while upholding proper hand hygiene and bedside manner, assisting in patient discharge and escort, shadowing and assisting nurses in medication delivery while ensuring accurate patient identification and being mindful of restrictions, providing assistance to other healthcare staff as needed
- Trained new clinical care scholars on hospital procedures
- Units of rotation: Oncology, 4 Medical, Surgical Telemetry, ICU, Radiology
- Completed 300 hours of volunteer service.
Volunteer - Medical Mission
Global Medical Brigades
08.2018 - 08.2018
- Assisted medical team with providing medical care to the residents of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Obtained and recorded vitals and patient history in triage, shadowed licensed doctors in medical consultations and assisted in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists
- Assisted with collecting electronic patient records for future visits and monitored overall community health trends.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Nursing -
Seattle University
Seattle, WA08.2023
Bachelor of Science: Biology -
California State University of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA08.2020
Skills
- Registered Nurse License No RN95379303
- American Heart Association BLS Provider
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Medication administration
- Patient Assessments
- Direct Patient Care
- Documentation and Charting
- EMR / EHR
- Patient education
- Strong Clinical Judgment
Accomplishments
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Certificate of Exemplary Service
- Adventist Health Glendale – Medical/Surgical Unit
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Pre-op/PACU
Retina Surgery Center
01.2024 - Current
Patient Staff Assistant
Kaiser Permanente
03.2021 - 05.2022
Volunteer - Medical Mission
Global Medical Brigades
08.2018 - 08.2018
Clinical Care Extender
Adventist Health Glendale - COPE Health Scholars
02.2018 - 08.2019
Store Associate
In-N-Out Burger
03.2017 - 03.2021
Bachelor of Science: Nursing -
Seattle University
Bachelor of Science: Biology -
California State University of Los Angeles
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