Francesca Canal
Miami,FL
Summary
Registered Nurse with 21 years of experience in various specialty areas such as Critical Care, Emergency Nursing, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Leadership, Quality management, Performance Improvement and Accreditation.
Highly motivated, energetic with a positive, realistic and supportive attitude. Ability to multi-task, organize, prioritize and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams for better patient outcomes
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Emergency Room Nurse
Broward General Medical Center
03.2023 - Current
- Work in over 600 beds level one trauma ER
- Team on Trauma and emergency interventions ranging from strokes, heart attacks, motor vehicle accidents, thoracic trauma and gunshot wounds.
- Triage and assign appropriate level of care.
- Communicate openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
- Answer codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care.
- Educate patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis, and treatment.
Registered Nurse Full Time 40 Hours/week
A-Team Solutions Contract- Miami VA
08.2021 - Current
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
West Coast University
02.2017 - Current
- Conducted clinical simulations and provided feedback for each individual student for up to 10 students per semester.
- Improved student performance by defining clear goals and communicating performance metrics.
- Assigned students to patients based on students' learning objectives and patient needs.
- Provided immediate and constructive feedback to students individually and as group.
- Instructed students on how to perform head-to-toe assessments on patients and how to intervene in medical emergencies.
- Provided nursing skill demonstrations for medication administration, dressing changes and clinical logs.
- Facilitate and instruct advance medical-Surgical nursing students in different clinical settings throughout local hospitals.
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Healthcare Travelink
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Provide care to patients with multiple medical diagnoses including COVID patients.
- Manage ventilated patients with multiple drips and medical devices.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for daily rounding
- Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and make adjustments to promote stabilization.
- Educate patients and family members on importance of complying with discharge instructions
- Developed and implemented patient care plans based on physicians' instructions and generally accepted nursing practices.
Performance Improvement Quality Manager
Baptist Outpatient Services
07.2018 - 12.2020
- Reviewed accreditation standards and evaluated compliance, identified challenges and proposed solutions.
- Oversee and responsible for quality, education, accreditation, infection control practices and performance improvement activities for 13 outpatient surgery centers throughout Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
- Collaborate with site leadership to ensure ambulatory surgery centers continue to exceed expectations of delivering high quality care and service to the community.
- Supported project staff by facilitating compliance project logistics.
- Communicated relevant project information to superiors and internal stakeholders.
- Managed changes to system and assessed security impact of those changes.
- Performed regular compliance reviews and audits, identifying non-compliance issues.
- Established and monitored compliance procedures to provide consistent implementation across departments.
- Defined and developed policies and procedures for consumer reporting and privacy practices.
- Review incident reports generated from all surgery centers and prepare reports for physician peer reviews during board meeting.
- Scheduled and performed unannounced visit to different surgery centers to ensure site readiness for AAHC and AHCA inspection for accreditation.
- Tracked, analyzed and executed quality and continuous improvement initiatives to hold departments accountable for performance
Assistant Nurse Manager Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Doctors Hospital
01.2013 - 07.2018
- Oversee and direct daily peri-operative services, assuring standards of quality services and safety are met
- Ensure appropriate staffing to accommodate early morning influx of pre-op outpatient and inpatient surgery
- Ensure add on cases from inpatient units are optimized
- Communicate and collaborate with anesthesia team about any changes in patients status that may warrant procedure cancellations.
- Collaborate with site clinician and educator to ensure sure compliance with performance improvement projects
- Perform chart audits on documentation pain reassessments and all consents were signed prior to surgical procedures.
- Respond to emergencies such as code blues or Malignant Hyperthermia
- Implement team building activities to ensure team cohesiveness
- Assist anesthesia team with performing multiple nerve block prior to surgery
- Perform up to 30 employee annual evaluations
- Participate in interview and hiring process of new employees
- Perform real-time chart audits of patients' charts to ensure accuracy and completeness of documentation while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.·
- Developed departmental goals and objectives to improve satisfactory rating with patients.
- Created work schedules for multiple shifts to confirm complete floor coverage.
- Streamlined steps in rapid response situations by prioritizing and delegating tasks.
- Communicated with members of medical staff and department heads during weekly update meetings.
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Jackson South Community Hospital
01.2009 - 07.2018
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
- Answered codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care.
- Teamed on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious head injuries, gunshot wounds, and thoracic trauma.
- Educated patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis, and treatment.
Nurse Registry Administrator
Visiting Angels
03.2013 - 05.2017
- Assist registry owner with emergency preparedness and ensure a reference binder is available to review for accreditation purposes.
- Ensure that all staff have proper credentials such as CPR and HHA
- Weekly rounding on clients to ensure staff are meeting client's expectations
- Built and maintained positive working relationships with physicians and staff to support seamless operations.
- Performed rounds to ensure patient appropriate level of care
Patient Care Supervisor Intensive Care Unit
Doctors Hospital
06.2006 - 01.2013
- Oversee daily patient flow and staffing of a 16 bed unit
- Onboard and precept new employees
- Provide coaching and annual employee performance evaluations.
- Render direct patient care to critically ill patients and assist physicians with bedside procedures.
- Respond to Code Blues and Code Rescues throughout the hospital.
- Trained and work as relief Nursing Supervisor when needed.
- Communicated with healthcare providers to facilitate continuity of care.
- Participated in team meetings and trainings to stay updated on best practices and new developments in care management.
Intensive Care Nurse
Mercy Hospital
06.2002 - 03.2011
- Provide care to patients with coronary and neurological diseases
- Participate in multidisciplinary rounds
- Assist in bedside procedures such as chest tube, central line insertion and thoracentesis.
- collaborate with clinician on providing evidence based care
Education
Master of Science - Nursing And Education
University of Phoenix
Miami12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Barry University
Miami, FL06.2001
Associate of Science - Medical Laboratory Technology
Miami Dade College
Miami, FL06.1998
High School Diploma -
Miami Central Senior High School
Miami, FL06.1990
Skills
- Chronic Disease Management
- Lab Result Interpretation
- Health Screening
- Critical Care
- Nursing Staff Leadership
- Data Collection
- Precepting
- Vaccine Administration
- Emergency Response
- Care Planning
- English, Creole, French
- Infection Control Measures
- Patient Assessment
- Physical Assessments
- Patient Discharge
Accomplishments
2018- Received the Black Excellence Achievement Award from the Family Christian Association of America (FCAA)
2018-Assisted in leading efforts to give back to the community. Some of these giving initiatives have consisted of fundind for various local organizations such as United Way, American Heart Association.
Participated in the toy drives for GIlda's House, Baptist Children's Hospital
Local Beach cleaning
2016- Nominated as Leader of the Year Doctors Hospital PACU
Certification
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- BLS - Basic Life Support
- TNCC-Trauma Nurse Core Course
- CCRN- Critical Care Registered Nurse
Timeline
Emergency Room Nurse
Broward General Medical Center
03.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse Full Time 40 Hours/week
A-Team Solutions Contract- Miami VA
08.2021 - Current
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Healthcare Travelink
01.2021 - 07.2021
Performance Improvement Quality Manager
Baptist Outpatient Services
07.2018 - 12.2020
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
West Coast University
02.2017 - Current
Nurse Registry Administrator
Visiting Angels
03.2013 - 05.2017
Assistant Nurse Manager Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Doctors Hospital
01.2013 - 07.2018
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Jackson South Community Hospital
01.2009 - 07.2018
Patient Care Supervisor Intensive Care Unit
Doctors Hospital
06.2006 - 01.2013
Intensive Care Nurse
Mercy Hospital
06.2002 - 03.2011
Master of Science - Nursing And Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Barry University
Associate of Science - Medical Laboratory Technology
Miami Dade College
High School Diploma -
Miami Central Senior High School
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