Karen Rubino

• Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
• Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking and administration.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Monitored nursing care, patient assessment processes and treatment implementations.

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
• Led successful team comprised of RNs, LPNs and ancillary staff.
• Audited charts and reviewed clinical documents to verify accuracy.

• 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.
• 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.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.

Staff nurse,caring for cardiac patients pre and post cardiac surgery, angiograms, and angioplasty. Administer cardiac infusions to recurring patients.