Ivette Rivera
Hoffman Estates,IL
Summary
Behavioral health nursing professional with solid experience in delivering comprehensive mental health care and creating supportive environments for patients. Known for effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and adapting to changing clinical needs, ensuring high-quality patient care. Demonstrated skills in patient assessment, crisis intervention, and therapeutic communication.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Register Nurse
DuPage County Health Department
02.2025 - Current
- Gauging patients’ psychiatric states.
- Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
- Administering psychotropic long-acting injections and daily medications.
- Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens.
- Calling insurance for prior authorizations for medications.
- Educated patients and families on mental health conditions, treatment options, and community resources to promote informed decisionmaking.
- Calling refills and new scripts to pharmacies.
- Evaluated treatment plan efficacy by regularly assessing patient progress toward established goals, adjusting interventions as needed based on clinical judgment.
- Promoted self-care among patients through the teaching of effective coping strategies and stress management techniques.
Registered Nurse
Northwest Community Hospital
08.2024 - 02.2025
- 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.
- Increased patient satisfaction by establishing trust and rapport through compassionate listening and empathetic communication.
- Streamlined documentation processes, resulting in increased efficiency and accuracy of patient records.
- Improved patient outcomes by developing and implementing individualized care plans for behavioral health patients.
- Prevented escalation of psychiatric crises by recognizing early warning signs and intervening promptly with appropriate de-escalation techniques.
- Educated patients and families on mental health conditions, treatment options, and community resources to promote informed decision making.
- Advocated for patient rights within the healthcare system by maintaining confidentiality standards, addressing ethical concerns when necessary.
Register Nurse/ Lead Preoperative Nurse
Hoffman Estates Surgical Center
07.2023 - 07.2024
- Assessing and correcting physiological and psychological problems that may increase surgical risk.
- Giving the patient and significant others complete learning and teaching guidelines regarding the surgery.
- Instructing and demonstrating exercises that will benefit the patient postoperatively.
- Assisting doctors with orders and consents.
- Training new staff.
- Assisting anesthesia staff.
- Assisting Charge Nurse with daily assignments.
- Preadmission testing to make sure patient qualifies to have procedure at our center.
- Planning for discharge and any projected changes in lifestyle due to the surgery.
Register Nurse/ Charge Nurse
Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health
07.2022 - 07.2023
- Gauging patients’ psychiatric states.
- Inserting and removing Nasogastric tubes.
- Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
- Administering psychotropic and daily medications.
- Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens
- Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
- Restraining, consoling, and providing medication to highly unsettled patients.
- Recording patients’ health journeys and reporting on notable alterations.
- Conducting targeted psychoeducation, with families and patient.
Register Nurse
Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Gauging patients’ psychiatric states.
- Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
- Administering psychotropic and daily medications.
- Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens.
- Admitting and Discharging patients.
- Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
- Restraining, consoling, and providing medication to highly unsettled patients.
- Recording patients’ health journeys and reporting on notable alterations.
- Conducting targeted psychoeducation, with families and patient.
Register Nurse
St. Alexis Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, IL
08.2021 - 01.2022
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
- Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, behavioral health, and other conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
- Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings, and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
Pharmacy Technician
CVS Pharmacy, Franklin Park IL
10.2006 - 01.2021
- Entered new patient profiles and prescriptions into medication input software system.
- Communicated directly with doctors' offices via telephone, fax, and email.
- Provided friendly customer service at prescription drop-off and pick-up counters.
- Worked closely with pharmacists and used medication input software to dispense medication safely and accurately.
- Maintained drug inventory levels by ordering necessary medications and supplies and verifying deliveries against purchase orders.
- Verified patient data and billing information.
- Verified accuracy and completeness of information on prescription and refill requests.
- Maintained proper storage and security conditions for all drugs.
- Strictly maintained customer and patient confidentiality.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Addison, IL05.2021
Associates - General Studies
Triton Community College
River Grove, IL12.2019
Skills
- Patient assessments
- Direct patient care
- Mental health nursing
- Fluent in Spanish
- Medication administration
- Documentation and charting
- Patient assessment
- Precepting
- Lab result interpretation
- EMR systems
- Performing ekgs
- Licensed RN
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
Languages
Spanish
Timeline
Register Nurse
DuPage County Health Department
02.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse
Northwest Community Hospital
08.2024 - 02.2025
Register Nurse/ Lead Preoperative Nurse
Hoffman Estates Surgical Center
07.2023 - 07.2024
Register Nurse/ Charge Nurse
Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health
07.2022 - 07.2023
Register Nurse
Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System
01.2022 - 06.2022
Register Nurse
St. Alexis Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, IL
08.2021 - 01.2022
Pharmacy Technician
CVS Pharmacy, Franklin Park IL
10.2006 - 01.2021
Associates - General Studies
Triton Community College
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain College of Nursing
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