Hazel Lopez
Lincoln,CA
Summary
Dynamic Registered Nurse with extensive ICU experience at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, excelling in advanced life support and hemodynamics monitoring. Proven ability to enhance patient outcomes through critical decision-making and compassionate care, while fostering teamwork and mentoring future nurses. Committed to delivering high-quality trauma care in high-pressure environments.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Mercy San Juan Medical Center
04.2005 - Current
- Handled ventilator support, feeding tubes and central lines.
- Assisted physicians with bedside procedures, ensuring accurate treatment administration and timely patient recovery.
- Demonstrated advanced critical thinking skills while managing complex clinical situations involving multiple organ systems failures in critically ill patients.
- Administered medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians.
- Contributed to positive work atmosphere by building trusting relationships with colleagues from various departments, fostering a strong sense of teamwork and collaboration.
- Demonstrated adaptability under pressure when managing multiple patients simultaneously during high-acuity situations or periods of increased workload in the trauma center environment.
- Educated patients and families on injury prevention, self-care, and medication management to encourage successful recoveries.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality trauma care and timely interventions.
- Mentored nursing students during clinical rotations, fostering professional growth and development within the field of trauma nursing.
- Assisted surgeons during complex procedures by providing surgical assistance such as instrument handling or wound dressing application as required for optimal patient outcomes.
- Expedited critical decision making through precise communication with physicians regarding patients'' conditions, changes, and response to treatment.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of San Agustín
Iloilo,Philippines03-1991
Skills
- Hemodynamics monitoring
- ECG
- Intravenous therapy
- Neurological monitoring
- Advanced life support
- Compassionate care
- Telemetry monitoring
- Endotracheal intubation
- Metabolic function monitoring
- Organ donor procedures
- Advanced cardiac life support
- Ventilator management
- End-of-life care
- Clinical judgment
- Family support
- Advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)
- Emergency interventions
Certification
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- ACLS Training -
- TNCC
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Mercy San Juan Medical Center
04.2005 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of San Agustín
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