Gabrielle Quintero
Peyton,CO
Summary
Highly motivated and experienced Licensed Registered Nurse dedicated to providing excellent clinical and community based care with an emphasis on education, with the ability to remain calm under pressure. Exceptional interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with strong emphasis in customer service and quality improvement
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse
Defense Health Agency
Fort Carson, CO
08.2023 - Current
- Served in a multitude of roles to include Staff nurse, Triage nurse, Circulator nurse and Charge nurse.
- Performed comprehensive and thorough assessments for high risk patients, and implemented critical thinking when conditions changed.
- Administered medications and monitored patient responses to ensure optimal care delivery.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized patient care plans.
- Educated patients and families on treatment options, promoting adherence and understanding of health conditions.
- Ensure timely interventions depending on patient needs.
- Served as part of unit quality improvement team and implemented initiates focused on enhancing patient safety and satisfaction outcomes within unit operations.
- Implemented evidence based protocols to optimize patient care.
- Developed strong rapport with patients and families, promoting open communication channels for effective collaboration in treatment plans.
Clinical Nurse
US Army
Fort Wainwright, AK
03.2018 - 07.2023
- MATERNAL NURSING:
- Serves as a Clinical, Triage and charge Nurse in the maternal newborn unit of a 10 bed unit.
- Assessed patients through means of telephone and physical triage processes.
- Provide nursing care to antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients from admission to discharge of hospital stay.
- Experience with caring for all body systems including but not limited to cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, circulatory system skin, bones, gastrointestinal, genital/urinary/renal, and cervical exams.
- Independently intervenes utilizing established protocols to prevent deterioration of the patient condition and restore hemodynamic stability and stabilize life threatening conditions.
- Collect lab samples, administer routine and critical care medications via all routes, assist in and complete specialized routine and urgent procedures. Recognized and reported change in patient condition and intervened as necessary.
- Skills utilized included: obtained IV/IO access, physical assessment of pregnant patients, fetal monitoring, fetal resuscitation during fetal distress, management of preeclampsia, severe preeclampsia, cord prolapse, uterine rupture, placental abruption, postpartum hemorrhage, and other maternal complications.
- Independently performed and assisted in gynecological examinations and procedures daily.
- Provided comprehensive and professional nursing care for patients in the Postoperative care after cesarean delivery.
- Coordinated appropriate patient admissions or transfers to and from differing levels of care in the Maternal Newborn Department.
- NEONATAL NURSING
- Serves as Clinical and charge nurse for neonates in the Maternal Newborn Unit. Provide newborn care to late preterm to term neonates.
- Performed newborn physical assessments, obtained laboratory specimens from newborns.
- Initiated and performed neonatal resuscitation until stabilization procedures as determined clinically appropriate.
- Coordinated with outside hospitals for transportation to neonatal intensive care units.
Clinical Nurse
US Army
Brooke Army Medical Center, TX
09.2013 - 10.2018
- Served as staff nurse and Charge nurse while providing direct patient care and education for active-duty service members and retiree populations.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary professional healthcare treatment team, assessed, coordinated, planned and monitored care, reported directly to physicians.
- Administration and preparation of specialized and complex lifesaving and emergency medication. Titration of intravenous, vasoactive and sedative medications for desired effect with constant monitoring of patient, intervened as necessary.
- Administered medications via intravenous (IV), oral, intramuscular (IM), nasal, rectal, eye, subcutaneous, transdermal, and ear required in compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Ordered and collected laboratory samples including blood, and other bodily fluid as well as interpreted results and made clinical decisions of appropriate action in relation to results and reporting to healthcare provider as necessary.
- Set up, operation and monitored various machines including IV pumps, hospital beds, cardiac resuscitation equipment, vital sign and related monitors, bladder scanners (ultrasound), as well as a variety of other equipment.
- Performed a variety of patient care procedures, to include, but not limited to: administration of oxygen, Intravenous fluids, blood products, and prescribed medications.
- Served as lead of the Unit Practice council, focusing on Process Improvement initiatives and increasing patient safety through evidence-based practices.
- Worked with outpatient cardiac clinic on improvement of heart failure readmission rates. Focusing on patient education, tracking of weight, nutrition goals and restrictions, and red flag symptoms.
- Maintained patient confidentiality by protecting unauthorized access to personal information.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Chicago, IL02-2027
Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Chicago, IL02-2027
Skills
- Care coordination
- Quality improvement
- Resource utilization
- Clinical judgment
- Patient relations
- Critical thinking
- Patient education
Timeline
Clinical Nurse
Defense Health Agency
08.2023 - Current
Clinical Nurse
US Army
03.2018 - 07.2023
Clinical Nurse
US Army
09.2013 - 10.2018
Bachelor of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
Chamberlain College of Nursing