Greg Ortiz

• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
• Serve as House Supervisor and Second House Supervisor, review BERT documentation and ultrasound IVs.

Level 1 Trauma | 402 Beds | Teaching

Neuro Intensive Care Unit / (Travel)

• Work with patients on mechanical ventilation
• Monitor neurologic changes and communicate changes with care team
• Management of EVD's and post op craniotomy patient care
• Monitor ICP and CPP values

Level 1 Trauma | 402 Beds | Teaching

Stroke ICU / ( Travel)

• Post TPA patient management
• Patients on mechanical ventilation
• Overflow Covid positive patients on bipap, comfort flow and mechanical ventilation.

Level 3 Trauma | 150 beds

Medical ICU / Travel

• Covid positive patients on mechanical vent
• Management of patients on multiple vasopressors
• Coordinate the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and monitoring of critically ill patients.

Level 4 Trauma | 209 Beds

Medical ICU / Staff

• Provide direct medical care needing intensive medical treatment including septic shock, cardiogenic shock and respiratory distress
• Initiated and maintained patients for targeted temp protocols
• Initiated and maintained patients on CRRT with Prismaflex machine

Level 1 Trauma | 382 Beds | Teaching

PCU- Stepdown / Staff Nurse - Charge Nurse

• Responsible for direct patient care in a stepdown unit to include patients with acute respiratory failure , acute GI bleed bleed, DKA, ETOH withdrawal

Level 3 Trauma | 425 Beds | Teaching

Ortho - Neuro Med Surg / Staff

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
• Reviewed post-operative orders and continuously monitored patients' post-operative vitals, set up PCA and fluids and oriented patients to unit.