Katrina Lazo Porte
Richmond,TX
Summary
Dynamic team player with leadership strengths striving for a position to commensurate my LVN abilities in an established healthcare organization with opportunity for advancement. Excellent skills in communication and collaboration, including being fluent in 3 languages: English, Filipino, and Ilocano. Basic computer operations (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer).
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Children’s Memorial Hermann (Texas Medical Center)
Houston, United States
10.2022 - Current
- Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients, and administer medications and vaccines to patients
- Working closely with other healthcare providers and specialists to implement the plan of care for the patients
- Monitoring patients with their health progress
- Communicating with other healthcare professionals and nurses about patient needs.
Charge Nurse
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, INC.
09.2015 - 10.2019
- Demonstrate leadership and management through supervising Medical Assistants and assist management with staffing and making schedules for nurses
- Efficiently and productively, perform vital signs administering vaccines to pediatrics and adults
- Ensure lab specimens are obtained, documented, and sent out properly; order lab supplies and clinical supplies.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
West Coast University,
Ontario, CA04-2022
Vocational Nursing -
Glendale Career College
Skills
- Care Planning
- Direct and Indirect Patient Care
- Collecting vitals
- SBAR communication
- CARE 4 use
- Patient reaction monitoring
- Immunization skills
- Patient Assessments
- Family and patient support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Bi-lingual in English, Tagalog and Ilocano (Filipino dialect)
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Medication Administration
- Patient discharging
- Patient education and counseling
- IV drug therapy management
- Patient Monitoring
- IV setup
- Intake and discharge
- Evaluations
- Team Coordination
- IV and venipuncture certified
- Pediatric nursing
- PEARS certified
Certification
- Basic Life Support, 09/2025
- PEARS, 09/2025
- Certified ACLS
- Home Ventilator Fundamentals and Management, 07/2014
- Tracheostomy & Airway Management, 07/2014
- IV insertion, 11/2015
- Phlebotomy, 11/2015
Clinical Training
- Victor Valley Global Medical Center
- Covid Testing Sites (California)
- Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
- Atherton Baptist Homes, Geriatric Care and Leadership
- Kaiser Permanente, Pediatrics Clinic
- St. Francis Medical Center, Med Surg Unit/Maternity/ Labor and Delivery /Telemetry/Psych
- Garden View Post-Acute Rehab, Rehab/Long Term Home Care
- Two Palms Nursing Center, Geriatrics/ Wound care
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tagalog
Native/ Bilingual
Ilocano
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Children’s Memorial Hermann (Texas Medical Center)
10.2022 - Current
Charge Nurse
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, INC.
09.2015 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
West Coast University,
Vocational Nursing -
Glendale Career College
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