Registered Nurse with extensive management experience and strong interpersonal skills. Proficient in Operative Room and Geriatric Care, demonstrating reliability and high performance with minimal oversight. Experienced Assisted Living Manager with a proven track record in staff management, resident care coordination, and regulatory compliance. Achievements include enhanced facility efficiency and improved quality of life for residents. Skilled Perioperative Registered Nurse with comprehensive experience in providing preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative nursing care. Strengths include effective communication, patient care coordination, anesthesia monitoring, surgical assistance, and post-surgical recovery management. Notably contributed to improved patient outcomes and efficient operating room environments through proactive involvement in interdisciplinary team collaboration and implementation of evidence-based practice. Experienced Assistant Director of Nursing with background in providing quality patient care and managing nursing teams. Possess strong leadership skills, adept at coordinating with medical professionals to deliver efficient healthcare services. Known for fostering staff development, implementing innovative patient care programs, and maintaining high standards of nursing practices. Demonstrated impact in previous role through improved patient satisfaction rates and enhanced team performance.
a) Resource allocation, work schedule development discipline management.
b) Perform random patient chart audits
a) Verify documentation required for surgeries according to facility's policies.
b) Educate and interview patients and families before surgeries.
c) Prepare surgical suites before procedures.
d)Assist anesthesiologists sedate patients.
e) Position patients to different surgeries and per surgeon's preferences.
f) Supervise and maintain the sterile field in the operating room.
g) Delegate tasks to surgical technicians and first assistants as needed.
h) Assist and transfer patients from the operating room to the recovery room as well as providing report.
i) Responsible for scheduled surgeries as well as taking call nights and weekends for traumas in the community as needed.
a) In charge of 60 conventional nursing beds and 40+ staff members.
b) Supervised and guided employees taking care of the elderly.
c) Excellent state surveys outcomes yearly.
a) Supervision and Management of a 40 apartments unit and 10+ staff members.
b) Excellent surveys outcomes while in this position.
a) Supervision and management of a 60 bed nursing unit with 40+ staff members.
b) Excellent state surveys outcomes while in this position.
a) Assisted Assistant Director of Nursing by supervising 40+ staff members and monitoring general activity of the Nursing Unit.
a) Medication Administration.
b) Wound treatments.
c) supervision of nurse assistants.
d) In charge of 30 patients.
a) Provided recreational activities to a total of 60 residents.
b) Flow sheet documentation.
a) Assisted residents with activities of daily living.
b) Assisted with feeding.
c) Flow sheet documentation.
d) Worked in a fast pace unit.
Registered Nurse 2014.
Licensed Vocational Nurse 2005.