Joei Moleen Fernando
Flagstaff,AZ
Summary
Passionate and dedicated new graduate RN with extensive experience. Bringing fresh ideas, a strong desire to learn, and a commitment to being a reliable team player. Focused on adapting to changing patient needs and ensuring high-quality outcomes. Enthusiastic about making a positive impact in the healthcare field.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Technician
Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona
03.2025 - Current
- Monitored patient vital signs, documenting changes and reporting to nursing staff.
- Assisted in daily patient care activities, ensuring comfort and safety during procedures.
- Collaborated with healthcare team to develop individualized patient care plans.
- Trained new staff on operational protocols and best practices for patient care.
- Provided emotional support to patients and families, fostering a compassionate environment.
- Assisted nurses with essential tasks, streamlining workflow and increasing efficiency in the healthcare setting.
- Provided high-quality personal care to patients, promoting comfort and dignity during their hospital stay.
- Assisted in transferring patients, beds and patient care equipment to other rooms adhering to necessary safety precautions.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
Behavioral Health Specialist
The Guidance Center
05.2024 - 03.2025
- Conducted assessments to evaluate clients' mental health needs and develop tailored treatment plans.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate comprehensive care for patients.
- Facilitated individual and group therapy sessions, promoting coping strategies and emotional resilience.
- Monitored client progress, documenting changes in behavior and adjusting interventions accordingly.
- Established trust-based relationships with clients through empathetic listening and non-judgmental communication, fostering stronger therapeutic alliances.
- Facilitated group therapy sessions addressing topics such as coping skills, stress management, and relapse prevention, fostering a supportive environment for participants.
- Assisted clients in developing healthy coping mechanisms that contributed to sustained behavioral changes and improved overall wellbeing.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams for comprehensive care, resulting in improved treatment planning and coordination.
PACU Tech
Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group
02.2021 - 10.2024
- The PACU Assistant is responsible for contributing to the patient plan of care, delivering care to the patient and the family, identifying and reporting variances, and supporting discharge plan.
- Has appropriate knowledge of transportation modes for all types of patients and isolation procedures following recommended CDC guidelines of care.
- Maintains responsibility for functioning equipment and supplies necessary for patient care, along with the cleaning of equipment and patient care areas as indicated.
- Assist nursing staff in Pre Op and PACU with the care of patients including obtaining vital signs, blood glucose checks and emptying drains.
- Provide safe transport of patients to and from Surgical Services Department.
- Ability to relate to and work with ill and disabled patients of all ages, bilingual patients, emotionally distressed patients, families, and with hospital personnel within the facility.
- Provides assistance to nursing staff upon patient arrival to the recovery room.
- Performs EKG’s in Pre-op and PACU as needed.
- Responsible for stocking patient care supplies in Pre-op and PACU patient care areas.
- Responsible for pre-op clipper preparations and pre-op scrubs as ordered by the physician and per pre-op protocol.
- Assists with cleaning of patient care areas in the department before and after patient use.
- Determines bed needs for the day and ensures patient beds or gurneys are readily available in the pre-op, intraoperative and postoperative areas.
- Maintains cleanliness, monitors, and restocks equipment and supplies as assigned or as necessary in the Pre op and PACU environment/workroom.
- Works with Biomed to assure department equipment is functioning properly, placing work order requests as necessary.
- Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
- Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group - Flagstaff (Primary Care)
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ01.2023
High School - undefined
Waipahu High School
Waipahu, HI01.2018
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Extremely organized
- Strong verbal communication
- Vital signs
- Patient assessment
- Diagnostic tests
- Patient records
- Medical terminology
- Compassion
- Communication
- Organization
- Client assessment and analysis
- Interpersonal and written communication
Certification
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification - American Heart Association
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Clinical Experience
Student Nurse
Pediatrics Clinical - Flagstaff Medical Center Flagstaff, AZ (2023)
- Provided and administer childhood vaccinations.
- Perform a head to toe assessment of the pediatric client.
- Develop a plan of care in collaboration with client, family, as well as the interdisciplinary health care team, using the nursing process for a pediatric client with health care needs.
- Deliver appropriate nursing care, including medication administration, to the pediatric client based on diagnosis, age and developmental stage.
- Consider the culture of the pediatric client and the family when planning care.
- Utilize appropriate teaching strategies when instructing the Pediatric client and family.
- Apply ethical and legal principles when caring for the Pediatric client and family.
- Educate the client and his/her family about agencies in the community that can help with difficulties concerning the child’s diagnosis; provide support to the patient and family.
Labor and Delivery - Kingman Regional Medical Center & Flagstaff, Medical Center Flagstaff, AZ (2023)
- Perform and/or interpret fetal assessment tests.
- Counsel patients on management and medical interventions for complicated intrapartum obstetrics including FHR categories, disorders of labor progression, obstetrics hemorrhage and malpresentation.
- Explain frequency and types of side effects of all interventions during stages of pregnancy.
- Interpret FHR tracings and demonstrate knowledge of: sensitivity, specificity, positive and normal, abnormal tracings, and test reliability
- Provided education regarding postpartum depression, psychosis and necessary interventions and resources.
Critical Care and Medical Surgical - Tsehootsooi Medical Center, Fort Defiance, AZ & Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, AZ (2021-2022)
- Demonstrate physical examination skills appropriate to various critical presentations.
- Identify historical facts suggestive of an immediate threat to survival.
- Demonstrate the ability to obtain a comprehensive and accurate history of present illness in critical illnesses.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize patient care needs.
- Administering medication to clients
- Learned how to manage, maintain, and operate a variety of medical equipment, such as IVs, feeding tubes, catheters, or oxygen tubes
- Help with pain management and patient assessment
- Provided necessary wound care
- Monitored client vital signs
- Organize and Provided discharge education to patients and families.
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona
03.2025 - Current
Behavioral Health Specialist
The Guidance Center
05.2024 - 03.2025
PACU Tech
Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group
02.2021 - 10.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Northern Arizona University
High School - undefined
Waipahu High School