Kanako Wakamatsu RN, BSN, CPEN

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via IV, intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• treated reactions to medications as needed

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Teamed on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious head injuries, gunshot wounds, and thoracic trauma.

• Safely administered Covid and flu vaccines providing education to customers on vaccines, dosage, indications, precautions, contraindications and potential side effects.
• Worked with individuals to determine specific needs based on general tests and refer them to other community resources.
• Educated community members about environmentally-related health issues.
• Administered vaccines at mass vaccine clinics as well as community outreach clinics.

Stabilization and transport of critically ill neonates and children via ambulance, fixed wing, and helicoptor in RN/ RRT format, perform advanced procedures such as intubation, ventilator management, needle thoracotomy, chest tube insertion, central line placement, fluid resuscitation, advanced life support for infants and children and transport to higher level of care.

Care of critically ill infants

Stabilization and transport of critically ill newborn infants and children throughout the Hawaiian islands, as well as medical transport to mainland US for specialty/ critical surgeries and care.

Experience resuscitating, stabilizing, and transporting newborns as young as 23 weeks gestation, to Honolulu women's and children's ICUs, performing advanced skill such as intubation, central line placement, needle thoracotomy, chest tube placement, IV placement, fluid resuscitation, and full advanced life support for critically ill newborn infants and children in an RN/RRT/paramedic team.

Assessment, evaluation, stabilization, intervention, monitoring, and care of critically ill infants and children. Coordinating care of patients, education, resource, and set up/ take down and management of CVVH (continuous veno-venous hemodialysis) circuits. Resource/ mentor/ preceptor for students as well as new hires.

Complex, comprehensive care of medically fragile infants and children such as patients with hypoplastic left hearts on prostaglandin infusion awaiting heart transplant, or patients with liver failure and short gut syndrome awaiting liver/bowel transplants.

Assessment, evaluation, stabilization of critically ill infants and children. Complex interdisciplinary care of patients and their families.

• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic, and cognitive status of patients.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
• Managed elements of patient care from admission to discharge or transfer to other units.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care, and discharge instructions.
• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Verified patients had information necessary for ongoing care, providing guidance on diagnoses, management of medications, and prevention methods.
• Collaborated with physicians, pharmacists and therapists to deliver quality, evidence-based care.