Lisa Rana

Preoperative department

• prepare patients and family members for surgery and procedures.

• orient and mentor new nurses to the department.

• float to Post Anesthesia Care Unit as needed.

• 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.
• Pre and Post operative care of Adult and Pediatric patient population in an outpatient setting.
• Monitor and assist Anesthesiologist with Nerve Block performed.
• IV insertion proficient.
• Total Joint Program

• Ambulatory Clinic Registered Nurse for Breast Cancer patients
• Triage patient phone calls and messages over EMR
• Assist clinic physicians with seeing patients in clinic
• Nurse only clinic visits
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• wound care for post operative patients
• pre operative and post operative teaching for patients
• Disability and Leave submissions for patients
• Assist with physical therapy, social worker, home health referrals for patients
• Collaborated on written post operative discharge instructions for clinic with surgeons and clinical staff

• Ambulatory clinic staff nurse for OHNS Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic
• Triage EMR messages and telephone calls for practicing physicians
• Assists with clinic procedures including Laser treatments, Dermabrasion, Microneedling with PRP, and office surgical procedures.
• Collaborated on written post operative instructions for surgical practice with clinic surgeons

• Staff nurse Preop/PACU Parnassus Heights
• Travel nurse contract in PACU 11/2014-3/2015
• Charge nurse Preop
• Procedural nurse for ECT, TEE, Cardioversion
• Teaching hospital
• Multiple specialty surgery experience

• Staff nurse outpatient PACU, Preop and GI lab sedation
• Relief charge nurse
• Adult/pediatric population
• General, GYN, Plastic, Podiatry, ENT surgeries
• Colonoscopy/EGD

• Staff Nurse inpatient/outpatient PACU
• Adult/pediatric population
• Level 1 trauma center
• Teaching hospital
• Regional burn center
• Multiple specialty surgery experience

• Travel Nurse contract in PACU
• Inpatient and outpatient department experience
• Level 1 trauma center
• Teaching hospital
• Multiple surgery specialty

• Travel Nurse contract PACU
• Phase 1 and 2 experience
• Level 1 trauma center
• Teaching hospital
• Multiple specialty surgery experience

• Staff Nurse PACU
• Adult, pediatric, women's PACU
• Preop women's hospital
• Level 2 trauma center
• Teaching hospital
• Multiple specialty surgery experience

• Registry RN in Los Angeles and Orange County California Hospitals
• Adult ICU
• Adult PACU

• Staff Nurse PACU
• Travel Nurse contract
• Adult and pediatric population
• Specialty hospital for patients with musculoskeletal disorders

• Travel Nurse contract at Cedars Sinai Hospital adult inpatient PACU
• Travel Nurse contract at St John's Hospital adult inpatient PACU

• Staff Nurse adult PACU/Preop
• Staff Nurse pediatric PACU
• Travel Nurse contract adult PACU
• Teaching hospital
• Multiple specialty surgery experience

• Travel Nurse PACU/ICU
• St Anthony's Central Hospital Denver, CO
• Holy Cross Hospital Silver Spring, MD
• Enhanced patient care by efficiently managing multiple cases in high-stress environments.
• Prevented complications in critical situations by promptly recognizing symptoms and initiating appropriate interventions.

• Staff Nurse adult/pediatric PACU
• Travel Nurse contract ICU

• Set up and monitored medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines
• Prioritized nursing care for assigned critically ill patients, based on assessment data and identified needs.

• Staff Nurse Medical/Surgical/Trauma ICU
• Staff Nurse Postpartum/Newborn Nursery
• Level 2 trauma center
• Teaching hospital