Marcelina Almaguer
Nursing
Mercedes,TX
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering outstanding patient-facing experience. Adept at addressing patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds. Committed professional with 15 years of experience in clinical, home health and acute care environments. Team collaborator willing to adapt to new procedural and technical requirements with enthusiastic support. Expertise in vital signs monitoring and medication administration.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
LVN/ Clinical Supervisor
Accuhealth
McAllen, TX
01.2019 - Current
- Monitor over 14k patients by prioritizing, assessing and reporting critical findings to their providers and help improving patient quality of life.
- Instruct patients and family members on importance of RPM and prevention of hospitalization.
- Instruct in disease management and its effects on patients and their care
- Employee trainer for new nurse hires
- Medicare chart reviewer
- Implement scheduling team and reviewing members in tableu chart daily to assess where assistance and new hires are needed most.
- Provide assistance to doctors answering questions and concerns to help maximize patient care
- QA charts
- Implement new standard/policy forms by revising and reteaching our staff members
- Watson clinic Site Admin
- Bridge of communication from our nursing staff to Director of Nurses.
- Assists with feedback to our DON, providing solutions.
- Assist multiple teams regarding questions on each individual's duties and responsibilities and guide them individually when necessary
- Arranging meets with employees to correct and reinforce teachings/helping meet goals
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure and blood glucose levels.
LVN
Doctors Hospital At Renaisssance
Edinburg, TX
01.2016 - 10.2018
- Administered medications and assessed side effects, successes and failures of new medications.
- Providing nursing care in addition to diagnostic and laboratory testing, preparing and administering immunizations
- Proven experience in managing patient anxiety; consistently receive positive praise from patients as a result of care provided.
- Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
- Completed pre-admission screenings and physical and mental health assessments for psychiatric patients.
- Partnered with social workers, counselors and doctors to develop plans of care.
- Assisted in calming patients using recognized best practice techniques with help from assistants and guards.
LVN : Telemonitor Clinician
Coordination Centric
McAllen, TX
01.2016 - 08.2018
- Coordination Centric
- Remotely monitor patients via mobile device
- Contacting patients and advising best course of treatment as indicated by vital signs, blood glucose and blood pressure readings
- Providing triage 24/7
- Bridge between patient and health care providers preventing crisis situations.
- Documented patient vitals, behaviors and conditions to communicate concerns to supervising provider.
Medical Assistant
Renaissance Medical Foundation
01.2012 - 03.2015
- Gastroenterology
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of nursing, administration, and physicians
- Experience with an EMR system
- Reasoning ability and good independent judgment
- Performed basic administrative medical assisting functions
- Assisted in obtaining patient history and vital signs as necessary
- Schedule, coordinate and monitor appointments
- Complied with quality assurance practices
- Screen, collect and follow up on patient test results
- Collect and process specimens accurately and timely
- Perform diagnostic and laboratory tests and wound care as necessary
- Adhere to established patient screening procedures at all times
- Scribed for physicians as needed
- Assist with the preparation and administration of medications and immunizations
- Maintains accurate medication and immunization records
- Prepares and maintains all patient files in an orderly fashion
- Ensure that positive results or stat results are provided to the practitioner in a timely manner
- Perform inventory of supplies and equipment as necessary.
Medical Assistant
Colorectal Surgeon
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Assisted in minor procedures, sterilized treatment rooms, patients and instruments
- Administered injections, treatments, and laboratory test procedures
- Scheduled patient surgeries and managed all patient electronic medical files.
Security Forces Member
United States Air Force
01.2004 - 01.2008
- Served as a Security Forces member for the 5th Security Forces squadron, including records custodian, and staff armoire
- Maintained high standards of excellence
- Established procedures for handling, storing, safekeeping and destroying classified documents and for granting company personnel and visitors access to classified material or entry into restricted areas
- Maintained continuous high standards of excellence
- Scored I 00% on every standard evaluation
- Executed daily operations of installation security, nuclear and conventional weapons systems and resources security, air base defense, law enforcement, information security, and participated in contingency operations
- Chosen as the Armory leader squadron
- Responsible for over $40 billion dollars’ worth of ammunition and weapons
- Learned all aspects of force protection duties
- Trained new workers
- Maintained time and production records
- Demonstrated effective leadership and encouraged team concepts:
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Rio Grande Valley College
Pharr, TXHigh School Diploma - undefined
Weslaco East High School
2004
Skills
- Effective communication skills
- Organized
- Implement new policies/procedures
- Responsible
- Leader
- Computer literate
- Effectively, understands and adheres to managed care policies and procedures
- Work Planning and Coordination
- Ambitious Licensed Vocational Nurse with 15 years of experience in health care field with passion for learning and growing professionally within a dynamic healthcare environment
- Nursing Intervention Evaluations
- Nursing Staff Supervision
Languages
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
LVN/ Clinical Supervisor
Accuhealth
01.2019 - Current
LVN
Doctors Hospital At Renaisssance
01.2016 - 10.2018
LVN : Telemonitor Clinician
Coordination Centric
01.2016 - 08.2018
Medical Assistant
Renaissance Medical Foundation
01.2012 - 03.2015
Medical Assistant
Colorectal Surgeon
01.2009 - 01.2010
Security Forces Member
United States Air Force
01.2004 - 01.2008
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Rio Grande Valley College
High School Diploma - undefined
Weslaco East High School
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