IRASEMA GUTIERREZ

• Triage patients and prioritize their care according to the severity of their condition.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care, keep accurate charting records of all your patients
• Answer codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care in CPR
• Educated patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis, and treatment.
• Give IV infusions, transfusion of blood products, draw labs, insert IVs, collect specimens
• Assist with procedures such as bone setting, suture removal, cleaning and packing wounds
• performing protocols for stroke, MI, Sepsis and diabetic DKA

Charge RN relief full time, In charge of all the patients and nurses on the floor.

Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.

Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention intervention to control and de escalate situations

Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

Use critical care thinking skills to keep patients safe and stable. Call code rescues at the first sign of clinical deterioration for better patient out comes.

Assessment, monitoring of critically ill patients and recovering them after surgical procedures. .

Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.

Wound care, diabetic management, IV infusing therapy, blood transfusions.

Managed care of colostomy bag, NG tube, foleys with

CBI , surgical drains, chest tubes

Communicating with MD on patient care and changes in condition, getting and verifying orders.

Educating and including patient's and their family in patients care.

Obtaining labs and specimens. Assessing lab values and diagnostic test and reporting acute findings.

Managed care from admission to discharge.

Treated patients who report chest pain and have cardiac conditions that cause them to be unstable

Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity,

Prepare patients for diagnostic testing, start IVs, blood draws, calling MD for test results and transcribing orders.

Administration of medications to control hypertension, heart arrhythmia, manage angina, and management of cardiac and coagulation drips.

Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other conditions.

ONCOLOGY- ACUTE CARE.

Assessment, treatment and monitoring of pre and post operative medical surgical/oncology patients.

Prepare patients for diagnostic and surgical procedures, end of life- hospice care, basic nursing duties: starting IVs and port a catheter

Administrating medications, transfusions of blood products and administering Chemotherapy.

Monitor foleys, chest tubes and drainage bags for condition and placement.

Provide feedings, personal hygiene and wound care. Educating and including patients' in their care including ostomy and diabetic management.

Using critical thinking skills to identify hematological emergencies. Review new order transcription and follow through for accuracy.