Francesca Canal
Miami,FL
Summary
Registered Nurse with 24 years of diverse experience in Critical Care, Emergency Nursing, and Pre/Post Anesthesia Care. Proven expertise in Leadership, Quality Management, and Infection Control Accreditation. Strong ability to multitask and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Adjunct Clinical Instructor Part time 12 hrs/week
Keiser University
Miami, Florida
11.2025 - Current
- Developed course materials for nursing students in clinical settings.
- Facilitated hands-on training for nursing students in diverse healthcare environments.
- Evaluated student performance through practical assessments and feedback sessions.
- Collaborated with faculty to enhance curriculum and teaching methodologies.
- Mentored students to foster professional growth and clinical skills development.
- Instructed students on proper safety protocols when handling medical equipment.
Registered Nurse Full Time- 40 hrs/week
Artemis ARC LLC- Contract at Miami VA
Miami, FL
08.2025 - Current
- Assisted in emergency situations by providing immediate nursing interventions.
- Maintained accurate patient records using electronic health systems.
- Participated in quality improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
- Collaborated with physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professionals to develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
- Monitored vital signs, administered injections, and provided assistance with medical procedures.
- Advocated for patients by supporting and respecting basic rights, values, and beliefs.
Registered Nurse Full Time 36hrs/week
A-Team Solutions Contract- Miami VA
Miami, Florida
08.2021 - 08.2025
- Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administer medications and treatment to patients and monitor responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educate patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, management and lifestyle options.
- Provide direct patient care, stabilize patients, and determine next course of action.
- Manage care from admission to discharge.
- Evaluate patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Explain course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
- Monitor patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Organize and manage care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
Emergency Room Nurse Float Pool- 24hrs/week
Broward General Medical Center
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Work in over 600 beds level one trauma ER
- Assist with 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 code STEMI and code blue as assigned.
- Educate patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis, and treatment.
- Assist with bedside procedures using moderate sedation.
Adjunct Clinical Instructor Part Time 10 hrs/week
West Coast University
Miami, Florida
06.2018 - 06.2023
- Conduct clinical simulations and provide individual feedback during 1:1 sessions for each individual for up to 10 students per semester.
- Improve student performance by defining clear goals and communicating performance metrics.
- Assign students to patients based on learning objectives and patient needs.
- Provide immediate and constructive feedback to students individually and as a group.
- Instruct students on how to perform head-to-toe assessments on patients and how to intervene in medical emergencies.
- Provide 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.
Registered Nurse Full Time 48hrs/wk ICU
Healthcare Travelink
Boston , MA
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Provide care to patients with multiple medical diagnoses including proning COVID patients, drug overdose, hypertensive crisis, and other respiratory and cardiac conditions.
- Manage ventilated patients with multiple drips and medical devices.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for daily rounding.
- Monitor patients' respiratory status, ventilator operation and make adjustments based on medical provider's recommendation to promote stabilization and extubation.
- Educate patients and family members on importance of complying with discharge instructions
- Develop and implement patient care plans based on physicians' instructions, patients and family dynamics.
Quality Manager RN Full Time 40hrs/week
Baptist Outpatient Services
Miami, Florida
07.2018 - 12.2020
- Review accreditation standards, evaluate compliance, identify challenges and propose solutions.
- Become familiar with AAAHC and AHCA standards/ expectations for ambulatory surgery centers.
- 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 each ambulatory surgery center continue to exceed expectations of delivering high quality care and services to the community.
- Conduct tracers and mock codes to all sites to ensure safety and survey readiness.
- Review tracer findings with staff and leadership and provide recommendations for any fall outs.
- Perform regular compliance reviews and audits, identifying non-compliance issues.
- Perform unannounced quarterly visits to all surgery centers to ensure patients' safety and compliance to AAAHC standards.
- Revise and develop policies and procedures to reflect necessary changes.
- Review incident reports generated from all surgery centers and prepare reports for physician peer reviews during board meeting.
- Schedule and perform unannounced visit to different surgery centers to ensure site readiness for AAHC and AHCA inspection for accreditation.
- Collaborate with site educators to instruct staff on new line of service.
- Introduce Performance Improvement projects based on the needs of each sites.
Assistant Nurse Manager Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Doctors Hospital- Full time 40 hrs/week
Coral Gables, Florida
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 unit 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 for completeness of history and physicals and immediate post op notes on all patients surgical patients.
- Respond to emergencies such as code blues or Malignant Hyperthermia.
- Implement team building activities such as organizing picnics, bowling to ensure team cohesiveness.
- Assist anesthesia team with performing nerve blocks prior to all orthopedic surgery.
- Perform up to 30 employee annual evaluations.
- Participate in interviewing 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.·
- Develop departmental goals and objectives to improve satisfactory rating with patients.
- Create work schedules for multiple shifts to ensure adequate staffing for daily and on call coverage.
ER Registered Nurse Perdiem 12 hrs/week
Jackson South Community Hospital
Miami, Florida
01.2009 - 07.2018
- Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administer medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Assist medical provider with moderate sedation for closed reduction procedures at bedside.
- Communicate openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff for better team work.
- Respond to codes as needed throughout the facility.
- Assist with 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 Part Time 8hrs/week
Visiting Angels
Miami, Florida
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 prior to assignment such as CPR and HHA.
- Weekly rounding on clients to ensure staff are meeting client's expectations.
- Built and maintain positive working relationships between clients and caregivers for a seamless operation.
Patient Care Supervisor Intensive Care Unit
Doctors Hospital- Full Time 36hrs/week
Coral Gables, Florida
06.2006 - 01.2013
- Oversee daily patient flow and staffing of a 16 bed ICU/PCU unit
- Onboard and precept new employees
- Provide coaching and perform 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 as needed.
- Train and work as relief Nursing Supervisor when needed.
- Communicate with healthcare providers to facilitate continuity of care.
- Participate in share governance and Unit Practice Councils meetings to discuss best practices that are evidenced-based that can further improve patient care and satisfaction.
- Review Press Ganey survey results with staff and identify areas for improvements
Intensive Care Nurse- Full Time 36hrs/week
Mercy Hospital
Miami, Florida
06.2002 - 03.2011
- Provide care to patients with coronary and neurological diseases: Strokes, neurosurgery, Myocardial infarctions and heart failure and many other critical illnesses.
- Participate in multidisciplinary rounds.
- Assist in bedside procedures such as chest tube, central line insertion, and thoracentesis and other procedures requiring moderate sedation.
- collaborate with clinician on providing evidence based care.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing/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
- Clinical instruction
- Nursing leadership
- Data collection and analysis
- Preceptorship
- Vaccine administration
- Emergency response
- Care planning
- Multilingual communication
- Infection control measures
- Patient assessment
- Physical assessments
- Patient discharge planning
- Electronic health records management
Accomplishments
• 02/2020- Receive the Black Excellence Achievement Award from the Family Christian Association of America (FCAA)
• 02/2020- Attend The Global Leadership Summit
• 12/2020-Participate in the toy drives for Gilda's House, Ft Lauderdale FL
• 12/2019- Lead the Toy drive for Baptist Children Hospital
• 08/2019-Lead the back to school supplies for the United Way, Miami, FL
• 7/2019-Participate in local beach cleaning
Ft Lauderdale
• 2018-2020-Participate in more than 20 AAAHC and over 10 AHCA licensing renewal surveys for Baptist outpatient surgery centers in different specialties ranging from Gastroenterology, Ophthalmology, GYN, Pain, Urological and Pacemaker, and loop recorder insertions and orthopedic surgeries.
• 3/2020-Initiate a call center for notifying patients of their COVID results
• 5/2020-Recruit over 100 nursing and ancillary staff from different clinical area throughout Baptist Health System to help staying on task with notifying COVID test results to a minimum of 300-500 patients daily of during the surge.
• Provide education to over 150 nursing staff and physicians on proper utilization and care of the N99 respirator in collaboration with the PI team.
• Collaborate with department IT to create a user friendly share drive accessible to all staff working remotely to increase the number of patients receiving their positive results.
• Provide weekly update to executive leadership on COVID results, and staffing needs.
• Perform multiple FMEAs and assist with acquisitions of new surgery centers (GI and a multi-specialty centers)
• Perform FMEA and site education with PI team for all new line of service.
• 11/2018-Attend a 3 day AAAHC conference Las Vegas, NV
• 2016- Receive Leader of the Year Doctors Hospital PACU, Coral Gables FL
• 02/2020- Attend The Global Leadership Summit
• 12/2020-Participate in the toy drives for Gilda's House, Ft Lauderdale FL
• 12/2019- Lead the Toy drive for Baptist Children Hospital
• 08/2019-Lead the back to school supplies for the United Way, Miami, FL
• 7/2019-Participate in local beach cleaning
Ft Lauderdale
• 2018-2020-Participate in more than 20 AAAHC and over 10 AHCA licensing renewal surveys for Baptist outpatient surgery centers in different specialties ranging from Gastroenterology, Ophthalmology, GYN, Pain, Urological and Pacemaker, and loop recorder insertions and orthopedic surgeries.
• 3/2020-Initiate a call center for notifying patients of their COVID results
• 5/2020-Recruit over 100 nursing and ancillary staff from different clinical area throughout Baptist Health System to help staying on task with notifying COVID test results to a minimum of 300-500 patients daily of during the surge.
• Provide education to over 150 nursing staff and physicians on proper utilization and care of the N99 respirator in collaboration with the PI team.
• Collaborate with department IT to create a user friendly share drive accessible to all staff working remotely to increase the number of patients receiving their positive results.
• Provide weekly update to executive leadership on COVID results, and staffing needs.
• Perform multiple FMEAs and assist with acquisitions of new surgery centers (GI and a multi-specialty centers)
• Perform FMEA and site education with PI team for all new line of service.
• 11/2018-Attend a 3 day AAAHC conference Las Vegas, NV
• 2016- Receive Leader of the Year Doctors Hospital PACU, Coral Gables FL
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
Adjunct Clinical Instructor Part time 12 hrs/week
Keiser University
11.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse Full Time- 40 hrs/week
Artemis ARC LLC- Contract at Miami VA
08.2025 - Current
Emergency Room Nurse Float Pool- 24hrs/week
Broward General Medical Center
03.2023 - 03.2024
Registered Nurse Full Time 36hrs/week
A-Team Solutions Contract- Miami VA
08.2021 - 08.2025
Registered Nurse Full Time 48hrs/wk ICU
Healthcare Travelink
01.2021 - 07.2021
Quality Manager RN Full Time 40hrs/week
Baptist Outpatient Services
07.2018 - 12.2020
Adjunct Clinical Instructor Part Time 10 hrs/week
West Coast University
06.2018 - 06.2023
Nurse Registry Administrator Part Time 8hrs/week
Visiting Angels
03.2013 - 05.2017
Assistant Nurse Manager Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Doctors Hospital- Full time 40 hrs/week
01.2013 - 07.2018
ER Registered Nurse Perdiem 12 hrs/week
Jackson South Community Hospital
01.2009 - 07.2018
Patient Care Supervisor Intensive Care Unit
Doctors Hospital- Full Time 36hrs/week
06.2006 - 01.2013
Intensive Care Nurse- Full Time 36hrs/week
Mercy Hospital
06.2002 - 03.2011
Master of Science - Nursing/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