Gian Alino
Chicago,IL
Summary
Compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse with proven leadership experience in charge nurse roles, demonstrating sensitivity, integrity, and respect for patients and their families. Expertise in planning, assessing, implementing, documenting, coordinating, and managing patient care in alignment with facility protocols while strictly adhering to HIPAA regulations to ensure patient confidentiality. Strong communicator and collaborator, effectively engaging with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare professionals to enhance the quality of care. Recognized for mentoring new and student nurses as a preceptor, fostering a supportive learning environment that promotes professional growth.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Travel Registered Nurse
Carle Foundation Hospital Through LiquidAgents HealthCare
Urbana, IL
03.2025 - Current
- Delivered compassionate patient care by assessing needs and coordinating treatment plans with interdisciplinary teams.
- Managed medication administration and monitored responses to ensure optimal patient health outcomes during travel assignments.
- Coordinated with healthcare professionals to develop individualized care plans that addressed specific patient requirements.
- Conducted thorough assessments of patients' conditions, documenting findings accurately in electronic health records systems.
- Administered IV therapies and monitored infusion reactions to ensure patient safety during treatments.
- Demonstrated adaptability when assigned to different units or shifts as needed, seamlessly integrating into diverse healthcare teams while maintaining exceptional performance levels.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses.
- Safeguarded patient privacy rights through diligent compliance with HIPAA regulations during all interactions with medical records and personal information.
- Maintained strict adherence to infection control protocols, ensuring a safe environment for patients and colleagues alike.
- Improved patient outcomes by diligently monitoring vital signs and adjusting treatment plans accordingly.
Infection Preventionist
Legacy Healthcare
08.2024 - Current
- My role as the Infection Preventionist (IP) was, I am responsible for the development, direction, implementation, management and operation of the infection prevention in the long term care facility. Infection Preventionist will work to identify, investigate, monitor, and report healthcare-associated infections and communicable diseases. Collaborates with teams and individuals to create, educate, and sustain infection prevention strategies, as well as provide feedback. Conducts ongoing staff development, training and quality assurance performance improvement monitoring to insure adherence with the organizational standards, professional guidelines, state, and federal regulations.
Local Agency RN
Clipboard Health Agency RN
Chicago
05.2023 - 07.2024
- Assisting long term care nursing home and skilled nursing unit as an agency nurse. Taking care of residents as a Registered Nurse, ensuring residents safety and their needs met through collaborating with different health care professionals and UAP. Reports directly to MD/DON/ADON about resident’s concerns, safety and wellness.
Travel Local Agency Registered Nurse
Med-Call Healthcare Agency
Chicago
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Agency RN acute setting floats to different unit in the hospital where staffing is short and needed
Staff Nurse
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Staff Nurse in an acute general adult step-down unit, managing complex patient assignments such as managing patient on ventilator, cardiac monitor and floating to other step down unit such as Neuro and Cardiac step down.
Acute Care Nurse
Presence Health
Chicago, IL
08.2013 - 04.2017
- Registered Nurse in an Acute Rehab unit responsible for direct patient care ensuring patients safety as a top priority by educating patients and family and other members of the interdisciplinary team to reduced and prevent falls in the unit. Expert in Acute Rehab Nursing focused on bowel and bladder intervention, skin integrity, pain control and therapy carry over. Collaborating with Physicians, Therapists- OT, PT, ST, PTA ensuring that patients are progressing towards their goals as wells as documenting their progress notes and individualizing nursing care plan for each patient and documenting how their progressing towards their rehabilitation by documenting on their FIM score daily. I also have experienced working in a variety of units to help when there are nursing shortage in their staffing units such as in Sub acute rehab-SNF, Tele-medsurg, Diamond Head ache unit, Behavioral unit and chemical dependency unit-detox unit.
Agency Nurse
Meds Staff on call
Chicago, IL
11.2012 - 08.2013
- As an agency Registered Staff Nurse, I provided quality care to patients and their families working alongside with other Health care professionals. Job entails being flexible be available of the different needs of nursing staff in different hospitals in the Chicago area. I have experienced per diem, on call and contract assignments working for the Agency company.
Registered Nurse
Illinois Masonic Hospital
Chicago, IL
03.2010 - 01.2012
- Registered Nurse in an Acute medical-surgical oncology floor responsible for direct bedside patient care with typical 5 to 7 patients in a 12-hour shift period. Job entails admitting and discharging patients, taking care and maintaining central lines, IV and oral medication administration, blood product transfusion, preparing patient for surgical procedures, charge nurse role experienced. Collaborating with physicians, specialists and other professional health team providers to achieve patient maximum desirable outcome.
Professional Registered Nurse
Mercy Hospital
Fairfield, OH
12.2008 - 01.2010
- As a Registered Nurse on an Acute medsurg-oncology unit I am responsible for direct patient’s bed side care this entails head to toe assessment, administering oral and IV fluids/medication, venipuncture, taking care and maintaining central lines, consulting other health care providers as a collaborative team members, monitor patients and provide patients education as well as patient’s family education.
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Sycamore Glenn Health Center
Dayton, OH
08.2006 - 09.2008
- As an LPN in a long-term care facility I provided planning and managing care of each patients assigned to me according to their needs under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. My duties as an LPN are based on my scope of practice this includes Med pass, patient’s assessment, taking vital signs reporting it to the Charge nurse or directly to the Physician if there are any abnormal results and making sure patients are safe and well taken care of.
Patient Care Technician (PCT)
Provena Covenant Medical Center
Champaign, IL
01.2000 - 02.2002
- As a nursing assistant, I provided basic care to patients including giving baths, assisting with grooming and eating and taking vital signs and recording it and report it to RN if there are abnormal results.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Chicago, IL12.2017
Associates Degree - Nursing
Fortis college
Dayton, OH01.2008
LPN - undefined
Rets Tech Center
Dayton, Ohio01.2006
Skills
- Patient record management
- Patient care management
- Patient and family education
- Direct patient care
- Nursing documentation
- Care plan development
- Telemetry monitoring
- Wound care and Infection Control
- Discharge planning
- Critical thinking
- Chronic and Acute disease management
- Medical-surgical nursing
- Hospice care
Timeline
Travel Registered Nurse
Carle Foundation Hospital Through LiquidAgents HealthCare
03.2025 - Current
Infection Preventionist
Legacy Healthcare
08.2024 - Current
Local Agency RN
Clipboard Health Agency RN
05.2023 - 07.2024
Travel Local Agency Registered Nurse
Med-Call Healthcare Agency
09.2022 - 05.2023
Staff Nurse
University of Illinois at Chicago
09.2021 - 09.2022
Acute Care Nurse
Presence Health
08.2013 - 04.2017
Agency Nurse
Meds Staff on call
11.2012 - 08.2013
Registered Nurse
Illinois Masonic Hospital
03.2010 - 01.2012
Professional Registered Nurse
Mercy Hospital
12.2008 - 01.2010
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Sycamore Glenn Health Center
08.2006 - 09.2008
Patient Care Technician (PCT)
Provena Covenant Medical Center
01.2000 - 02.2002
Associates Degree - Nursing
Fortis college
LPN - undefined
Rets Tech Center
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Daisy awards
Daisy awards recipients