Gayle Turrietta

• Organized student activities to promote learning and professional development.
• Mentored, supervised and evaluated the performance of clinical nursing students.
• Provided guidance to students in developing individualized care plans for patients.
• Monitored patient safety during clinical rotations by observing student's interactions with patients and staff.

• Frequent relief charge nurse.
• Promotes a culture of a safe learning space for all students and staff.
• Trained and mentored new RNs on best practices, hospital policies, and standards of care.
• Quickly and accurately recognizes a declining patient, anticipates interventions, and advocates for a higher level of care.

Trained in the following areas:

• Provide life support services during medical emergencies on scene and en route to the hospital.
• Rapidly assess whether life threatening criteria is present and take immediate action.
• Initiate plans of care based on patient assessments.
• Maintained updated knowledge with treatment protocols, response requirements and quality assurance procedures. (Nationally Certified Emergency Technician, and New Mexico State certified)

• Coordinated patient care needs with healthcare team and delivered compassionate assistance with activities of daily living
• Obtained patient vital signs and reported results to nursing staff to note changes from prior measurements
• Executed hourly rounding on all assigned patients, and provided ADL assistance with patience and empathy