Liliana Macias
Melrose Park
Summary
Compassionate bilingual Registered Nurse with experience offering comprehensive patient care in inpatient environments. Moreover, just recently became the department chair for the CNA program at Triton College. In addition to a passion for serving diverse patient populations and fostering trusting relationships to improve outcomes.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CNA Program Department Chair
Triton College
06.2024 - Current
- Enhanced curriculum quality by collaborating with faculty and staff to develop innovative educational programs.
- Increased student retention rates through the implementation of effective academic support services and resources.
- Developed comprehensive strategic plans focused on achieving short-and long-term goals in alignment with the school''s mission and vision.
- Implemented program-level departmental policies and procedures and managed budgets to support educational program and curriculum.
Adjunct Lab Instructor
Triton College
01.2024 - Current
- Enhanced lab safety by implementing and enforcing strict protocols and guidelines.
- Increased student comprehension of complex concepts through hands-on demonstrations and interactive experiments.
- Evaluated student performance through assessments and provided constructive feedback for growth and improvement.
- Introduced real-world applications to connect theoretical concepts with practical experiences, enhancing overall comprehension.
- Cultivated learning-focused laboratory environment dedicated to building student skills and interest in field.
- Demonstrated skills and safety procedures to students during laboratory sessions.
RN Team Leader
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
01.2023 - Current
- Strengthened unit care standards and policies with focus on patient safety and dignity.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
Registered Nurse: Progressive Critical Care Unit
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
08.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Collected blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
- Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Provided targeted care and treatment to stroke, COVID, CKD, CHF, dialysis, patients.
- Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.
- Follows proper procedure for installation and removal of catheters, IVs and PICC lines.
- Experienced with IABP, Swan Ganz, and ventilators.
Registered Nurse: Intensive Care Unit
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
01.2021 - 07.2022
- Works to prevent illness and injury, facilitate healing, and alleviate suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations
- Executes nursing duties such as assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation/coordination, teaching and evaluation to guide practice and respond to patient needs
- Identifies expected outcomes and goals of care based on their plan, frequent collaboration with patients, and colleagues within hospital
- Consistently communicates with patients, families and colleagues
- Performs required charting and documentation of patient care
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
- Proved successful working within fast-paced atmosphere
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
Patient Advocacy, Patient Care Assistant
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Performs variety of direct patient care procedures
- Unit Managers, professional staff and physicians in providing patient care focused on needs of patients
- Responsible for meeting comfort and hygienic needs of patients by providing care services such as: bathing, oral hygiene procedures, hair care, bed pan/urinal use, skin care, and garment/linen/bedding
- Assists with patient testing, treatment procedures, changes dressings, performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation, obtains wound/throat cultures
- Assists with ambulating patients with assistive devices and with transfer and transport procedures
- Performs required documentation of patient care
- Part of team that won Silver Beacon Award 2020 in ICU
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to nurses.
- Attended to patient and family's immediate needs and concerns by acknowledging and providing required attention
- Updated documentation and reports detailing patient activities, care actions and hospital determinations
- Aided physicians in wound care and patient assessments
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
Benedictine University
Lisle, IL10.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Benedictine University
Lisle, IL05.2022
Associates of Science - Nursing
Triton College
2020
Skills
- Compassionate
- ACLS/BLS
- NIHS
- EPIC experience
- Attention to Details
- Ethical
- Quick Response
- Flexible
- Communicative
- Critical care nursing
- Care plan initiation
- Healthcare policies
- Patient care documentation
- Performing EKGs
- IV setup
Certification
LICENSES & CERTIFICATES
Registered Nurse ICU IL-041506680
ACLS eCard Code: 215405734020
Heart Saver First Aid CPR AED E-card code: 205507304850
NIHS Stroke Scale: April 2024
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
CNA Program Department Chair
Triton College
06.2024 - Current
Adjunct Lab Instructor
Triton College
01.2024 - Current
RN Team Leader
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
01.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse: Progressive Critical Care Unit
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
08.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse: Intensive Care Unit
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
01.2021 - 07.2022
Patient Advocacy, Patient Care Assistant
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
01.2019 - 01.2021
Master of Science - Nursing
Benedictine University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Benedictine University
Associates of Science - Nursing
Triton College
LICENSES & CERTIFICATES
Registered Nurse ICU IL-041506680
ACLS eCard Code: 215405734020
Heart Saver First Aid CPR AED E-card code: 205507304850
NIHS Stroke Scale: April 2024
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