Marcella Vazquez, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

• Coordinate care for a panel of over 1200 patients
• Use a variety of modalities including video, telephone, and face to face visits to reach out to patients
• Reduced hospital readmissions through effective discharge planning, patient education, and follow-up care coordination.
• Perform physical health assessments on patients and make recommendations to provider to help develop plan of care
• Triage patients based on acuity and refer accordingly
• Blood draws and tissue specimen collection
• Provide patient and family education on diagnosis, disease process and management, treatment plans, lifestyle modifications, and medications
• Provide training to new nurses and re-orient current nurses in new policies and procedures.
• Provides guidance to clinic staff and escalates issues following chain of command in role as charge nurse

Intensive Care Unit- August 2014-September 2017

• Provided care to critically ill patients and families using the nursing process
• Head-to-toe assessment
• Ventilator support
• Safely administered medications via oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, and intramuscular routes and monitored response.
• Provided advanced cardiac life support
• Educated patients, families, and caregivers on disease process, treatment plans, and medications
• Blood draw and specimen collection
• Catheter and tube insertion and monitoring
• Cardiac rhythm monitoring
• Patient and family advocacy by evaluating goals of care

Medical Surgical Unit- August 2010-January 2012 and January 2013-August 2014

• Improved patient outcomes by implementing evidence-based nursing interventions and individualized care plans.
• Medication administration and monitoring
• Blood draws and specimen collections
• Provided proper wound care and management
• Evaluate that interventions and treatment goals were met prior to patient discharge
• Provided patient and family education on disease process, management, treatment plans, and medications

Creating Healthier Hearts Grant- January 2012-December 2012

• Setup testing sites to provide free cholesterol and glucose screenings to low-income communities
• Specimen collection
• Identified abnormal labs and referred patients to providers for further care
• Assisted in establishing patient-provider relationships
• Provided education on lifestyle modifications for disease prevention and monitoring
• Provided individual and large group educational sessions using U.S. Department of Agriculture MyPlate guidelines
• Provided follow-up care through telephone and face-to-face visits
• Collected data and evaluated program outcomes