Francesca Meza-Saavedra
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Certified Nurse Assistant, 12 years of experience in health care all this years working closely with Register Nurses and Doctors at Hospital ICU, focused on delivering high quality patient centered care, giving excellent service to family members and priority excellent care to Patients.
Skilled in overseeing acute and chronic conditions, well versed in measuring vitals, collecting medical specimens, treating wounds and assisting with non-invasive medical procedures, patient-oriented Nurse Assistant with 12 years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision and department operations, skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments, as well, organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level CNA position; Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Assistant, St. Mary's D'Youville Pavillion
KRUCIAL RAPID RESPONSE
01.2023 - 11.2023
- Enhanced patient care by implementing evidence-based nursing practices and protocols.
- Improved patient satisfaction ratings by delivering compassionate and personalized care.
- Streamlined communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive understanding of care plans.
- Implemented infection control measures that significantly reduced hospital-acquired infections.
- Promoted a safe and comfortable healing environment by addressing patient concerns promptly and professionally.
- Mentored new nursing staff members, fostering teamwork and improving unit efficiency.
- Utilized strong clinical judgment in prioritizing patient needs during high-stress situations, ensuring optimal outcomes.
- Developed individualized care plans tailored to diverse patient populations with varied medical conditions.
- Created an efficient shift handover process which improved continuity of care between nursing shifts.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge on emerging trends in nursing practice to enhance effectiveness in delivering quality care.
- Remained calm during high-stress, critical situations, demonstrating sustained focus and problem-solving in real-time.
- Assisted patients in performance of routine recovery and mobility exercises, providing support when getting in and out of bed as well as walking and stretching.
- Helped patients eat and drink when necessary for safe consumption of food consistent with recovery guidelines.
- Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other conditions.
- Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
Nurse Assistant St. Mary's D'Youville Pavillion
KRUCIAL RAPID RESPONSE
07.2022 - 10.2022
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
- Helped patients effectively manage routine bathing, grooming and other hygiene needs.
- Reported unusual or urgent circumstances in patients' condition or environment immediately to nurse supervisor.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Maximized patient satisfaction by helping individuals carry out personal tasks such as dressing and walking.
- Wiped down equipment with proper cleaning products after each patient transport to reduce instances of infection.
- Agreed to take on additional shifts and extra hours during busy periods and holidays to maintain proper staffing and floor coverage.
- Monitored, tracked and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Cared for residents in assisted living facility and delivered high-quality support to meet needs.
- Employed mobility devices and equipment to lift patients from chairs to beds, following safety procedures to avoid injuries.
Nurse Assistant /Medical Assistant
KRUCIAL EMERGENCY SERVICES
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Reduced risks of patient infection and cross-contamination by cleaning and sterilizing equipment.
- Facilitated personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
Surgical Attendant
Baptist Medical Center
03.2020 - 11.2021
- Arranged supplies and instrumentation to meet needs of individual surgeons and enhance team efficiency.
- Quickly responded to emergency situations during procedures with life-saving aid.
- Verified identity of patient or operative site.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
- Setup operating and surgery rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
- Evaluated procedure needs and set up equipment, tools, supplies and instruments.
- Sterilized instruments and disposed of medical supplies and waste following OSHA guidelines.
- Decontaminated, cleaned, assembled, packaged, sterilized, stored and distributed reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.
Medical Records
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
- Reviewed charts and flagged incomplete or inaccurate information
- Created and maintained computerized record management systems to record and process data and generate reports
- Responded to requests for information from various individuals by providing documents
- Reviewed medical records for completeness and filed records in alphabetic and numeric order
- Prepared mailings of information and documentation
- Received and processed medical records requests
- Obtained patient releases for dissemination of information
- Received and routed medical records
- Audited records for accuracy
- Create new Medical Records and retrieves existing Medical Records by gathering appropriate record folders and contents
- Assigning and recording new record numbers, verifying existing record numbers
- File all patient medical record and information
- Initiate the medical record by creating and processing the patient care record folder
- Maintain record availability by processing charts into the department, using chart mark-off procedures, facilitating chart location activities
- Delivers charts to assigned areas of the hospital by following established routing procedures
- Keeps health care providers informed by communicating availability or unavailability of. the record
- Maintain quality results by following hospital standards
- Maintain patient confidence by keeping patient records information confidential
- Ensure patient chart, paperwork and records are completed in accurate and timely manner
- Make sure all medical records are protected and kept confidential
- Complete clerical duties including answering phones, responding to emails and processing patient admission and discharge records
Unit Secretary
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
- Delivered expert clerical support to internal staff and management by efficiently handling wide range of routine and special requirements
- Monitored and communicated patient dietary plans to carry out physician orders and prevent errors
- Documented updates to patient information in medical charts while maintaining HIPAA compliance protecting confidentiality of records
- Interacted with customers professionally by phone, email or in-person to provide information and direct to desired staff members
- Coordinated diagnostic tests, including collection of samples and transportation to scanning rooms
- Answered unit calls and took messages for healthcare staff to maximize team productivity
- Responded to and resolved diverse patient issues with speedy and knowledgeable assistance
- Produced high-quality documents, spreadsheets and presentations for internal and customer-facing needs
- Prepared admissions charts and scanned records
- Answered multi-line telephone system, provided information and directed calls
- Arranged discharges and patient transportations
- Admitting new patients in the system and discharge patients as well
- Break down medical chart when patient is discharged
- Type Physician orders in the computer for each patient on time, for Labs, Procedures, Pharmacy, Diet, etc
- Print Physician's Progress Notes daily and putting in patient's charts
- Fax package for patient's procedures to admitting department,
- Obtained and organized medical records for office visits and scheduled labs
- Monitored premises, screened visitors, updated logs and issued passes to maintain security
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously using organizational and analytical skills
- Kept office supplies well organized and sufficiently stocked, placing orders promptly to replenish materials before depleted
- Kept reception area clean and neat to give visitors positive first impression
- Provided clerical support to employees by copying, faxing and filing documents
Certified Nursing Assistant ICU
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
- Feed, bathe and dress patients
- Take patients vital signs
- Serve meals, make beds and keep rooms clean
- Set up medical equipment and assist with some medical procedures
- Answer calls for help and observe changes a patient's condition or behavior
- Turn and reposition Patients every 2 hours
- Provide and empty bedpans and bedside commode
- Lift patient into bed, wheelchair, etc
- Help patient getting out of bed, using the toilet, walking or standing
- Examine patients for bruises, blood in urine or other injuries/wounds
- Clean and sanitize patients areas
- Change bed sheets and restock rooms with necessary supplies
- Empty foleys, Colostomy bags, JP's, Drainage bags
- Transport patient when discharge to home or sniff
- Ensuring patients receive appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences
- Measuring and recording food and liquid intake/output, also, fecal and urine, reporting changes to the Nurse
- Recording and chart Vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen level, respiration rate and Sugar Levels as well doing finger sticks
- Helping moving patients that are covered in tubes, connected to a ventilator, intubated, arterial and venous line, feeding tubes, NG tubes
- Notify to Nurse observation of patient behavior, complains, physical symptoms
- Assist with processing patients admissions, transfers and discharges
- Agreed to take on additional shifts and extra hours during busy periods and holidays to maintain proper staffing and floor coverage
- Oversaw and maintained patients' rooms, group living areas and nurse stations
- Wiped down equipment with proper cleaning products after each patient transport to reduce instances of infection
- Maximized patient satisfaction by helping individuals carry out personal tasks such as dressing and walking
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing
- Monitored patient specimen samples and test results to effectively alert supervisors of potentially unhealthy changes
- Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport
- Cared for patients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns and medically-relevant symptoms
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations
- Reduced risks of patient infection and cross-contamination by cleaning and sterilizing and equipment
- Employed mobility devices and equipment to lift patients from chairs to beds, following all safety procedures to avoid injuries, weighing patients with Hoyer lift or standing scale
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care
Certified Nursing Assistant
Select Specialty Hospitals
03.2012 - 06.2016
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns and medically relevant symptoms.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments and evaluating patient needs.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport.
- Monitored patient specimen samples and test results to effectively alert supervisors of potentially unhealthy changes.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
Education
High School Diploma -
Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial #11
Sonora, Mexico06.1992
Skills
- BILINGUAL, English and Spanish (Speaking, Reading and Writing)
- Certified Nursing Assistant
- Surgical Attendant
- Medical Records
- Unit secretary
- Wound Care Knowledge
- Dementia and Alzheimer's knowledge
- Tube feedings, Ventilator, Tracheostomy and Intubated Patients
- CPR/First Aid Certified (American Heart Association)
- Compassionate, Responsible, Trustworthy, Adaptable
- Efficient and reliable team working
- Direct patient care
Certification
- CNA certified by Department of Aging and Disability Services (Licensed Active to work in Texas, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan)
- CPR certified through American Heart Association
- Alzheimer's Association Training and Certification
- BLS certified through American Heart Association
Timeline
Nurse Assistant, St. Mary's D'Youville Pavillion
KRUCIAL RAPID RESPONSE
01.2023 - 11.2023
Nurse Assistant St. Mary's D'Youville Pavillion
KRUCIAL RAPID RESPONSE
07.2022 - 10.2022
Nurse Assistant /Medical Assistant
KRUCIAL EMERGENCY SERVICES
01.2022 - 03.2022
Surgical Attendant
Baptist Medical Center
03.2020 - 11.2021
Medical Records
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
Unit Secretary
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
Certified Nursing Assistant ICU
Kindred San Antonio Central
06.2016 - 03.2020
Certified Nursing Assistant
Select Specialty Hospitals
03.2012 - 06.2016
High School Diploma -
Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial #11
- CNA certified by Department of Aging and Disability Services (Licensed Active to work in Texas, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan)
- CPR certified through American Heart Association
- Alzheimer's Association Training and Certification
- BLS certified through American Heart Association
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