Kristina Alonso

• Promoted professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.
• Reviewed department performance and adjusted coverage to compensate for changing conditions.
• Coordinated and implemented in-service educational programs focusing on safety and adherence to protocols.
• Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care.
• Investigated and independently resolved complaints from staff, physicians, and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise.
• Developed and implemented quality improvement initiatives to provide best possible patient care and identify and address areas of concern.
• Supervised, directed, and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.
• Developed strategy to target nursing and patient satisfaction issues, improve response, and patient care quality and suggest actionable improvements to promote hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives.
• Led staff meetings to keep team informed of departmental changes and provide opportunities for nurses to share ideas and concerns.

• Maintained current understanding of local, state and federal guidelines for emergency response.
• Investigated practical and theoretical issues facing emergency services and identified effective resolutions.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to prepare plans and procedures to respond to emergency scenarios.
• Facilitated emergency management training for staff and conducted emergency drills.
• Kept informed of activities or changes that could affect likelihood of emergencies, factors that could affect response efforts and details of plan implementation.
• Performed real-time chart audits for patients ensuring accuracy and completeness of information while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.
• Created work schedules for multiple shifts to confirm complete floor coverage.
• Communicated with members of medical staff and department heads during weekly update meetings.
• Streamlined steps in rapid response situations by prioritizing and delegating tasks.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Managed staff scheduling and time off to adequately staff nursing floors and allow nurses earned time off.
• Supervised, directed, and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.

• Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
• Answered codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Participated in evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
• Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.

• Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Teamed on trauma and emergency interventions involving serious head injuries, gunshot wounds, and thoracic trauma.
• Communicated openly and collaboratively with all healthcare staff to organize successful patient care.
• Answered codes quickly and orchestrated efficient, skilled medical care.
• Delivered important IV and venous medications to control symptoms and provide effective treatments.

Float Pool Agency for Jackson Healthcare System.

• Med-Surg/Tele, ED, Corrections, and Infectious Disease
• Provided Care within LPN Scope of Practice under supervision of RN

• Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
• Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport.
• Performed patient mobility services by turning, lifting, moving and repositioning patients.