Laura Pinette

Highly skilled healthcare professional with 29 years in the medical field, with 22 of those years as a cardiac sonographer. I perform echos and assist in other procedures as needed at the Albuquerque Veterans Administration. My concentration, as a contractor, is to focus on assisting the Albuquerque VA with their extensive outpatient echo backlog.

In July 2024, the permanent employee's spouse was reassigned to another duty station, outside New Mexico causing me to shift my priorities to both the impatiens as well as the outpatients.

I maintain a clean, safe and professional clinic for the veterans of the Albuquerque Veteran's Administration. I Set up the patient and equipment to perform the exam in a comfortable and dignified manor. I perform routine and complex exams and advise the team of abnormalities and pathologies found.

I collaborate with multidisciplinary teams as needed, to provide comprehensive care for my patients.

My mother had been ill for a few years but passed away in the fall of 2023.

I performed Echos as needed in the inpatient setting as well as out patients. I maintained a clean, safe and professional clinic and reported findings both normal and abnormal to the reading provider.

I set up both the patient and equipment to perform the exams. I optimize workflow efficiency by maintaining a well organized schedule while prioritizing urgent and stat cases.

It is the goal to reduce wait times and improve patient satisfaction through addressing their concerns and answering what questions I can.

I took off August of 2023 to december of 2024. My mother had been very ill for a few years and passed away in the fall of 2024.

I maintained a clean and safe exam room for my pediatric patients as well as their family members.

I performed routine and complex echocardiograms on pediatric patients in an outpatient clinic setting. These were both perop and postop echos on patients that were born with congenital heart disease. It was imperative that I understood complex congenital cardiac disease and report all findings to the cardiologist before handing the patient off to the cardiologist or surgeon upon completion of the echo.

While contracted at Lovelace Medical Center (with Aureus Medical Services) I was responsible for covering staff at multiple locations within the Lovelace Umbrella. I floated to the downtown Lovelace facility, NM Heart Institute as well as the Heart Hospital.

I collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in the evaluation and maintenance of LVAD and Impella devices, TAVR procedures as well as heart transplant and post-cath procedures. I also assisted with stress tests, transesophageal echocardiograms and administered contrast per protocol. (i.e. Difinity, bubble studies).

I extended my contract, at the request of the facility!

I performed echocardiograms on patients with congenital heart disease in the pediatric and the adult population.

It was imperative that I understood complex congenital cardiac abnormalities both preoperative as well as postoperatively. It was crucial to communicate all findings to the cardiologist before handing the patient off to the cardiologist and or surgeon.

It was my responsibility to ensure a thorough echo was performed espically within the neonatal population . Time is of the essence when confronting certain congenital heart diseases so knowledge and experience are key!

I assisted in Transesophageal echocardiograms, treadmill stress test, dobutamine stress test, contrast studies, OR and cath lab exams. I took call on the weekends as well as during the week and volunteered to go to outreach programs throughout the state of New Mexico, once or twice a month.

I left this job to pursue a travel contract. I needed more time off and flexability to help with sick mother.

I performed echocardiograms on adult patients. I assisted with stress test, transesophageal echocardiograms and inserted IV's in my patients that needed contrast studies performed per protocol.

I was part of a multidisciplinary team and assisted in the operating room as well

• Call only

• Position was eliminated for budget reasons

It was my responsibility to administer medication as well as perform skin rounds. I was I.V. certified and put iV's in as needed for hydration as well as medication administration. I performed INR and glucose testing and titrated meds as needed per protocol.

It was my responsibility to assist and advise Medical assistants with patient care and activities of daily living. It was also my responsibility to communicate and doccument findings to the interdisciplinary team regarding