LUISA AMOS
San Antonio
Summary
Dedicated and quality-focused Registered Nurse with extensive experience across Cardiac Progressive Care and Medical-Surgical units. Proven expertise in guiding adult learners, precepting new nursing staff, and delivering exceptional care to high-acuity cardiac patients. Strong professional role model committed to meaningful coaching, mentoring, and enhancing overall team proficiency in fast-paced clinical environments. Highly skilled in utilizing adult learning principles to coordinate comprehensive orientations and facilitate the seamless integration of new nursing personnel into acute care settings.
Overview
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse – Cardiac Progressive Care
AdventHealth Tampa
Tampa, FL
03.2022 - Current
- Serve successfully as a relief charge nurse and dedicated preceptor for new nursing staff members, facilitating their professional integration into a fast-paced Cardiac Progressive Care Unit environment while significantly enhancing overall team proficiency levels.
- Guide diverse learners and newly hired staff through clinical orientation pathways, consistently ensuring full alignment with strict organizational goals, evidence-based practices, and educational standards.
- Demonstrate calm leadership and critical thinking during high-stress emergency situations such as Code Blue events, coordinating multi-disciplinary team efforts to stabilize acute patients and initiate rapid, appropriate interventions.
- Deliver exceptional, quality-focused care to high-acuity patients requiring complex, specialized interventions, including intravenous cardiac medication management, continuous heparin and insulin infusion titration, and extensive advanced wound care.
- Provide expert post-operative management for patients recovering from complex surgeries, including Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Cardiac Valve Replacements, Femoral-Popliteal Bypass, and Amputations.
- Strengthen unit-wide patient safety measures by maintaining consistent vigilance over telemetry data, conducting precise cardiac rhythm assessments, and executing timely independent clinical decisions based on subtle changes in patient condition.
- Manage intricate medication regimens for complex cardiac patients, meticulously validating proper dosing, timing, and compatibility while aggressively monitoring for drug-to-drug interactions or adverse reactions.
Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical Unit
HCA South Tampa Hospital
Tampa, FL
04.2021 - 03.2022
- Provided comprehensive didactic and clinical instructions to orient newly hired nurses and potential student nurses, ensuring clear training outcomes and individual educational objectives were successfully reached.
- Monitored patient clinical baselines by tracking and completing telemetry readings, identifying irregular telemetry patterns, and updating team members on updates in stability and acuity.
- Developed, executed, and re-evaluated daily patient goals and highly customized care plans for up to six complex surgical patients concurrently, showcasing outstanding prioritization skills.
- Delivered exceptional, evidence-based nursing care to diverse patient populations with acute clinical focuses on orthopedics, urology, adrenalectomies, bariatric procedures, and complex gastrointestinal post-operative recovery.
- Managed level-headed emergency responses for critically ill post-operative patients, reviewing post-op orders, managing PCA pumps, and establishing appropriate fluid resuscitation protocols.
Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical Unit
Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago
Chicago, IL
09.2018 - 02.2021
- Met rigorous institutional training objectives by systematically instructing new and prospective nursing staff members on clinical protocols, technical equipment, and essential organizational procedures.
- Counseled caregivers and family members empathetically regarding complex end-of-life planning and provided clear education on continuing patient comfort and care options.
- Assessed and managed high-risk patients undergoing active drug and alcohol withdrawal, delivering targeted pharmacological and psychological supportive interventions to mitigate severe withdrawal syndromes.
- Administered safe blood and blood product transfusions alongside continuous intravenous therapies to resolve acute and chronic physiological issues for a 42-bed unit.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Resurrection University
Chicago, IL04-2018
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts and General Studies
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, IL05-2015
Skills
- Clinical Education & Leadership
- Precepting & Mentorship
- Didactic & Clinical Instruction
- Staff Orientation Coordination
- Adult Learning Principles
- Team Leadership & Coaching
- Cardiac & Critical Care Expertise
- Telemetry Interpretation
- Continuous Cardiac Monitoring
- Advanced Life Support (ALS/ACLS)
- Intravenous Cardiac Infusions
- Critical Clinical Judgment
Certification
- Licensed Registered Nurse (RN), State of Florida (Originally licensed 2018)
- Progressive Care Certified Nurse (PCCN), American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (Certified: June 1, 2026)
- CMSRN Certification, Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board (Valid: 2021 – 2026)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certified, American Heart Association (Certified: June 30, 2026)
- BLS Certified, American Heart Association (Certified: June 30, 2026)
Timeline
Registered Nurse – Cardiac Progressive Care
AdventHealth Tampa
03.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical Unit
HCA South Tampa Hospital
04.2021 - 03.2022
Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical Unit
Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago
09.2018 - 02.2021
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts and General Studies
Oakton Community College
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Resurrection University