Laura Contreras
Somerton,AZ
Summary
Dedicated nurse with a primary objective of delivering exceptional care to patients and their families. Driven by the desire to explore diverse facets of nursing, identifying and enhancing strengths while addressing areas of improvement. Committed to continuous professional growth through seeking opportunities to acquire new skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Public Health Nurse
Public Health Department
09.2024 - Current
- Educated the public on disease prevention strategies through community presentations, workshops, and written materials.
- Increased vaccination rates within the community through targeted campaigns and educational outreach efforts.
- Reduced disease transmission through administering immunizations and providing education on infection prevention.
- Safely administered flu and pneumonia vaccinations, providing education to customers on vaccines, dosage, indications, precautions, contraindications and potential side effects.
Registered Nurse
Yuma Regional Medical Center
02.2024 - 09.2024
- Maintain detailed medical records, including recording patients' symptoms and medical histories, and monitoring vital signs
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans for complex patients with multiple comorbidities.
- Patient education, collaboration with other healthcare members, and emotional support for patient and family members
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
Nurse Extern I & II
Yuma Regional Medical Center
06.2023 - 02.2024
- Responsibilities include assisting the nurse perform bedside skill
- Care up to five patients at any given time
- Precise documentation such as patient rounding, I&O, admissions and discharges
- Collect data and develop plan of care
- Report all observed symptoms, reactions, treatment, and changes in patient condition to RN
- Perform basic procedures such as IV access, urinary catheter insertion, demonstrated time and management and organizational skills on consistent basis
- Demonstrated behavior that reflects cooperation, commitment, reliability, initiative and team work
Licensed Nurse Assistant
Yuma Regional Medical Center
05.2017 - 12.2023
- PRN Nurse Assistant in the Pre-op holding
- Responsibilities is to prep patients for surgical procedures, shave body parts if needed
- Get body weight and check vital signs on admission
- Crossed trained in PACU
- My responsibilities are to attach monitors to patients after post-op, assist the nurse in emptying and record Foleys output, getting patients dressed before discharge, and transport patients to the main entrance to be picked up by family members
- Crossed trained in Pre-Admissions
- Responsibilities is to do labs before patients have surgery
- Labs include blood work, collecting urine samples; MRSA swabs samples, and EKG's
- I also assisted with Covid-19 swab collection when it was a protocol
- Obtain medical and cardiac clearances, H&P, doctors' orders, from offices outside YMRC facility, and outside labs results, and then scan them on media
- Crossed trained in outpatient and Women's surgical services Pre-op and PACU
Caregiver
Arizona Mentor
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Caregiver for clients with mental disabilities
- Responsibilities were to assist clients with their ADL's, medication administration, and transport them to a day care program facility
- Help clients to regain their independence as much as possible, and we used to set weekly goals for them to complete
Education
Associates degree - nursing
Arizona Western College
Yuma, AZ12.2023
Skills
- Designated Interpreter
- Excellent communication
- Team player
- Bilingual (Spanish and English)
- Multitasker
- Hard worker
- Phlebotomy skills
- Operate EKG machine
- Responsible
- Reliable
- Navigate EPIC
- Use of media manager
- Scanning
- Public Health
- Immunization Administration
- Disease Prevention
- Environmental Health
- Patient Assessments
- Health Promotion
- Public Education
Timeline
Public Health Nurse
Public Health Department
09.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Yuma Regional Medical Center
02.2024 - 09.2024
Nurse Extern I & II
Yuma Regional Medical Center
06.2023 - 02.2024
Licensed Nurse Assistant
Yuma Regional Medical Center
05.2017 - 12.2023
Caregiver
Arizona Mentor
01.2015 - 12.2016
Associates degree - nursing
Arizona Western College
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