Karla O. Yap
Daly City,California
Summary
Empathetic and patient-focused RN with a background in psychiatric care seeking a role. Committed to supporting mental health patients with compassion, strong assessment skills and collaborative approach treatment planning.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Geriatric Psychiatric Registered Nurse - Full Time
Seton Medical Center
Daly City, California
03.2024 - Current
- Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols of the healthcare organization.
- Administer prescribed medication and treatments in accordance with approved nursing protocols.
- Monitors patients for significant and critical changes, and initiates procedures as required.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the management of aggressive or assaultive behaviors, often using de-escalation techniques, therapeutic communication, or crisis intervention to keep patients safe.
- Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals to create individualized care plans tailored to each patient's unique mental health needs, focusing on treatment goals, medications, and therapies.
Registered Nurse - Part Time
Westwood Post Acute
San Jose, California
10.2023 - Current
- Consult and collaborate with doctors and other healthcare professional regarding resident medical needs
- Developing unique care plan for each resident to make sure the resident gets what they need and coordinate with residents primary caregiver and alert them to any changes that arise
- Administer patients' medicine, treatments, assess patients' conditions, conduct physical examination and perform diagnostic test
- Advocate for the health and well-being of patients
Insurance Supervisor
University Medical Center-King Abdullah Medical City
09.2012 - 08.2022
- Company Overview: Kingdom of Bahrain
- Performing claims audit, ensuring the quality of claims, diagnosis is with ICD coding, and analyze the reason of denials
- Collaborated with a diverse team over 100+ staff Including doctors, nurses, receptionist, to optimize claims processing and quality assurance to achieved the lowest rejection rates, maintaining a quality indicator percentage of rejections below industry standards
- Manage a high volume of over 30+ phone calls from customer and colleagues daily, delivering efficient support and issue resolution
- Kingdom of Bahrain
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Sultan Kudarat Educational Institution
04.2007
Skills
- Patient assessment
- Crisis intervention
- Care plan development
- Therapeutic communication
- Medication administration
- Team collaboration
- Patient advocacy
- Quality assurance
- Collaboration
Licensures And Certifications
- RN, California, 95357259, 09/30/25
- AB508 Certification, 04/30/25
- 5150 Certification, 08/31/27
- BLS, American Red Cross, 09/30/25
- ACLS, American Heart Association, 09/30/25
Degree
BSN
Personal Information
License: RN
Timeline
Geriatric Psychiatric Registered Nurse - Full Time
Seton Medical Center
03.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse - Part Time
Westwood Post Acute
10.2023 - Current
Insurance Supervisor
University Medical Center-King Abdullah Medical City
09.2012 - 08.2022
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Sultan Kudarat Educational Institution
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