GRACELL DE CHAVEZ

• Assessed and managed various patient treatments for ABG reading and mechanical ventilator adjustment
• Critical Care Unit, EKG reading, defibrillation, cardioversion
• Provided care to patients with cardiac, neuro, and medical illnesses
• Assisting during code blues, giving emergency medications, assisting in intubation and preparing the ventilators
• Sedation/narcotics titration and weaning
• Pressors like Levophed, vasopressin, phenylephrine.
• Numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute respiratory distress, stroke, DKA, cardiogenic shock, PE, complicated bowel resections/surgeries, STEMI, heart failures, decompensated CHF, hypertensive urgencies among others
• Monitored intubated patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization
• Titration and weaning patient off from sedations, based on the hospital protocol and weaning criteria
• Assessing patient's pain using pain scales like CPOT (Critical pain observation tool), nonverbal pain scales among others, and giving pain medications/narcotics based upon patient's pain score
• Assist in code blues, performing high quality CPR, giving emergency medications
• Observed patients' vital signs, initiate and titrate pressors accordingly
• Read ABGS and lab works, and relying abnormal findings with the doctor for appropriate actions
• Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices
• Developed and implemented patient care plans based on physicians' instructions and generally accepted nursing practices
• Recorded patients' medical status and treatment details in electronic charts to accurately document medical care

• Monitor, assess, and delivered care to patients suffering from various medical conditions including complicated liver cirrhosis/hepatorenal syndrome, ARDS, septic shock, stroke, pulmonary embolism, heart failure, cardiogenic shock, drug overdose, DKA, post CABG patients, and a lot of other serious medical conditions
• Helps and assist in code blues, giving emergency medications, preparing the mechanical ventilators and assisting in intubations
• Reading and interpreting ABG's and changing mechanical ventilator settings in accordance to the blood gas result
• Provided CRRT therapy for patients requiring continuous renal replacement

• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization
• Observed patients' vital signs and administered physician-prescribed medications and treatments
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent and geriatric ICU patients
• Maintained respectful treatment environment that honored patients' and families' cultural and religious traditions and preferences

• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator

operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization. • Observed patients' vital signs and administered physician-

prescribed medications and treatments.

• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult,

adolescent and geriatric ICU patients.

• Maintained respectful treatment environment that honored

patients' and families' cultural and religious traditions and preferences.

The hospital served as a central military facility for the injured soldiers of the Libyan civil war.

Provided direct nursing care to patients suffering from multiple gun shot wounds to the head resulting to traumatic brain injury, requiring complicated neurosurgical interventions.

Delivered care to patients who have multiple body injury

from motor vehicular accidents requiring orthopredic interventions such as ORIF, closed reductions, vascular grafts.

Assess and monitor patients vital signs, and clinical conditions, performed appropriate nursing actions and relaying pertinent findings to the doctor.

• Provide Nursing care for critically ill patients with various medical conditions including decompensated CHF, hemorrhagic stroke, septic tubercullosis, ARDS, bacterial meningitis.

• Delivered care for patients who have multiple body injury from vehicular accidents, including post craniotomy/evacuation, post ORIF, patients with chest tubes and abdominal drains.

•Assist during code blue, give emergency medications and Assist during intubation.