Emilia Takou

Responsive and dependable Emergency Room Nurse with a year and half experience able to think quickly and execute appropriate response to emergent pain and trauma care needs. Excellent communicator able to calm patients and collaborate well with other staff members to ensure thorough understanding of necessary procedures, patient status and treatment plans. Highly organized with extensive experience in interpersonal communications seeking to expand career by leveraging these skills in a new position where compassionate patient care can be offered.

• Assess patient condition immediately upon arrival, checking vital signs, reviewing reports, determining initial prioritization according to existing patient caseload.
• Provide IV administration as needed, conscious sedation and local anesthesia for wounds.
• Clean wounds, manage bleeding.
• Assist other providers and physicians in lifesaving procedures
• Monitored vital signs of all patients, providing acute care and lifesaving procedures as needed
• Communicated patient condition and treatment plans to patient and families, gaining consents as required.
• Performed phlebotomy, intravenous insertion and interpreted laboratory results.
• Insulin administration following the rights of medication administration
• Insertion of NG tube and feeding
• Central line dressing change
• Tracheostomy care and suctioning
• Urinary catheter insertion and care
• IV administration
• Ambulation after surgery
• Use of incentive spirometer
• Fall prevention techniques
• Power port access

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