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Laura Darilek

Registered Nurse
San Antonio

Summary

Experienced A+ Registered Nurse with a proven track record of delivering high-quality healthcare to diverse patient populations. Collaborative and effective in fast-paced hospital environments, working closely with nursing teams and medical professionals to achieve positive patient outcomes. Currently completing a master's degree in family nurse practitioner, poised to excel as an advanced practice registered nurse.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Registered Nurse, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

Methodist Hospital
02.2023 - Current
  • Coordinate care with physicians, advanced practice providers and other clinical staff to carry out interventions and enhance the continuum of care to deliver outlined treatment plans and protocols safely
  • Deliver direct patient care involving high acuity patients, including stabilizing and identifying inpatient and outpatient treatment options.
  • Monitor and document patient condition, vital signs, medication, side effects, and recovery progress during high-dose chemotherapy, infusion of stem cell products, and desensitization protocols.
  • Maintain composure and efficiency during rapid response situations and emergency codes.
  • Utilize high-qulaity assessment skills involving care and education of central venous access catheters
  • Maintain strict safety-measured compliance with medication administration standards involving patient and caregiver education throughout the treatment plan
  • Advocate for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners and verifying interventions met treatment goals

Mom, Mommy, Mama, Etc.

Stay at Home Parent
06.2017 - 01.2023
  • Spent this time raising my young children and soaking up many amazing moments with them before they entered grade school
  • Promoted language development skills through reading and storytelling
  • Built positive and nurturing environments to support child social and emotional growth
  • Actively completed Continuing Education courses within my field

Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery

Methodist Hospital
05.2015 - 06.2017
  • Responsible for direct care of pregnant and/or laboring patients, including those with high-risk and/or complicated pregnancies
  • Managed patient care during cesarean delivery cases and other gynecological surgeries
  • Worked with a team of fellow labor and delivery staff
  • Educated patients and their families, as well as attending to their emotional needs
  • Administer medications, perform nursing skills and sterile procedures, prepare and recover patients before, during, and after deliveries, and document assessments and plan of care
  • Monitored, recorded, and reported symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions
  • Triaged patients using assessment and clinical skills
  • Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care

Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery

Providence Memorial Hospital
01.2014 - 10.2014
  • As per the above labor and delivery experience
  • Also included within clinical training, performing AROM as needed and placing IUPC upon order from an obstetrician

Student Nurse

Del Sol Medical Center CVICU and University Medical Center CVICU
03.2013 - 11.2013
  • Worked closely with preceptor to perform tasks according to patients’ care plans
  • Established and refined skills while caring for acutely ill patients
  • Directly cared for up to two patients, as well as assisted other nurses in the unit

Senior Ambulatory Care Specialist

B Braun Medical
05.2003 - 06.2011
  • Worked closely with nursing and anesthesiologists to participate in research with regional anesthesia programs versus general anesthesia
  • Regularly in-serviced clinical staff on new products including, but not limited to, infusion pumps, IV catheters, IV tubing, and pain control products
  • Additional role of Field Sales Trainer from January 2007 - December 2010


Account Executive

Standard Register
05.1999 - 05.2003
  • Ranked in the top 10% of all sales executives over the cumulative course of my career and in the top 2% of executives with similar tenure
  • Successfully maintained and expanded the Texas Children’s Hospital document management account, which resulted in gross revenue of $1.2 million realized by Standard Register in 2002

Registered Nurse

Methodist

Education

Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner

Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Nursing Lubbock
San Antonio, TX
08.2022 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing At TTUHSC El Paso
El Paso, TX
01.2013 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
01.1997 - 1 1999

Skills

    Patient and family education

    Professional bedside manner

    Family advocacy

    Current Texas licensure with State Board of Nurse Examiners

Accomplishments

  • Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (BLS CPR) Certified
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certified
  • RN License with Texas Board of Nursing current through December 2026
  • Effective oral and written communication skills
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop

Affiliations

Texas Nursing Students’ Association at TTUHSC

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority



Timeline

Registered Nurse, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

Methodist Hospital
02.2023 - Current

Master of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner

Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Nursing Lubbock
08.2022 - Current

Mom, Mommy, Mama, Etc.

Stay at Home Parent
06.2017 - 01.2023

Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery

Methodist Hospital
05.2015 - 06.2017

Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery

Providence Memorial Hospital
01.2014 - 10.2014

Student Nurse

Del Sol Medical Center CVICU and University Medical Center CVICU
03.2013 - 11.2013

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing At TTUHSC El Paso
01.2013 - 12.2013

Senior Ambulatory Care Specialist

B Braun Medical
05.2003 - 06.2011

Account Executive

Standard Register
05.1999 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

University of Connecticut
01.1997 - 1 1999

Registered Nurse

Methodist

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