HOLLY ROMERO

• Performed IV insertions and maintenance to ensure proper medication administration.
• Monitored vital signs using advanced telemetry systems to ensure patient stability.
• Utilized infusion pumps to deliver medications and fluids to patients efficiently.
• Provided patient education on managing health conditions and post-discharge care.
• Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive patient care plans, resulting in better health outcomes.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and implementing evidence-based practices.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Served as a liaison between physicians and patients'' families to facilitate clear communication regarding treatment options and progress updates.
• Mentored new nursing staff, contributing to a supportive work environment and improved retention rates.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
• Coordinated discharge planning efforts with social workers, case managers, and other multidisciplinary team members for smooth transitions posthospitalization.

Course Director and Instructor

TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course) and ENPC (Emergency Pediatric Course).

• Improve trauma patient outcomes by providing nurses with foundational trauma knowledge, skills, and a systematic organized approach to guide trauma patient care.
• Provide quality education to help build confidence for students in the critical setting which includes systematically assessing the trauma patient, intervene and/or assist with interventions, provide evidence -based trauma nursing care withing the context of a trauma team.
• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.
• Assessed student knowledge levels and abilities with detailed assessments.
• Liaised with medical and nursing personnel to evaluate and improve teaching and nursing practices.
• Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.

Development, implement, and evaluate care for the preoperative and postoperative patient.

Coordinate and collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to facilitate integrated and comprehensive care.

Circulate in the Endoscopy suite, while assisting with injections and dilations.

My current position as the lead nurse includes taking a pod of patients as well over seeing the flow of patients from pre op to PACU. Other duties include:

• Communicating and working with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
• Collaborating with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.

Primary care, assessment and evaluation of high volume of Trauma patients and managed health care needs in critical situations in large volume Trauma center.

• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

• Primary care, assessment and evaluation of patients in a rural setting and managed health care needs in critical situations
• Stabilize and transfer high number of Trauma, STEMI and Strokes
• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.

Clinical Educator and Instructor for TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course) and ENPC (Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course) since 2011.

• Improve trauma patient outcomes by providing nurses with foundational trauma knowledge, skills, and a systematic organized approach to guide trauma patient care.
• Provide quality education to help build confidence for students in the critical setting which includes systematically assessing the trauma patient, intervene and/or assist with interventions, provide evidence -based trauma nursing care withing the context of a trauma team.

• Extracted and tracked daily Trauma data
• Data entry into Trauma Registry
• Education on injury prevention
• Collected data on all patients presenting with Chest Pain and STEMI's
• Educated staff on Trauma and Chest
• Ain protocols required to maintain our Trauma Designation and Chest Pain Accreditation.

• Provided emergency care within a very busy 25 bed ER
• Assessed patients and prioritized care
• Managed multiple critically ill patients through ACLS protocols.

• Cared for Emergency patients in a rural setting
• Assessed and prioritized care
• Treated, stabilized and transferred high volume of Trauma, Burns, STEMI's and Strokes.

• Obtained patient information including medical history, medication history chief complaints and allergies
• Support duties for diagnostic treatment, procedures such as treadmills, holter monitors, lab including micro,minor surgeries and casting
• Assist the physicians during procedures and exams.