Farzahana Wahab

Essential Responsibilities:

• Leadership Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibility, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
• Demonstrates a professional, supportive attitude.
• demonstrates the ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Prioritizes and delegated work assignments appropriately to ensure the completion of patient care activities.
• Nursing Process: Performs patient care activities within the scope of competency, considering the age-related needs of the patient as assigned.
• Reports unusual findings to the physician and/or Registered Nurse and contributes recommendations for revision to the plan of care..
• Monitors patients' progress based on the plan.
• Assures care meets standards of practice.
• Documentation Charting is legible, dated, and timed.
• Safety Complies with Patient Safety Standards.
• Clinical Outcomes Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians, a registered nurse, and other members of the health care team.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring, monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Customer Service Practices: customer service standards as defined by the Medical Center and specified departments

Essential Responsibilities:
• Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent and courteous manner.
• Provides care within the scope of the LVN license.
• Interprets existing policies and procedures related to medication administration to nursing assistants, restorative nursing assistants, residents, families and physicians.
• Provides direct and indirect nursing care to residents to include administration of medications and treatments and wound care.
• Monitors residents for effectiveness of drug and other treatments, and any adverse effects.
• Documents assessments, medication administration, treatments and other interventions as described by the plan or care, physician and family notification per policy.
• Implements infection control policies and procedures.

Responsible for the coordination of patient care for multiple specialty surgical services in the PACU. Assisted in rooming the patient, obtaining vital signs, and having the patient prepared for the RN to start PreOP.